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"The review for 'Shark Sandwich' was merely a two word review which simply read 'Shit Sandwich'."

Memo to John McCain, Reps. Boehner, Blunt, Cantor et al: today was not Nancy Pelosi’s responsibility.  She delivered the votes she promised and gave you the compromise needed to get your guys on board at the expense of enough Black and Hispanic Caucus votes to have won a more party-line vote to placate your endless paranoid bitching about provisions inconsequential to the broader economy.  Rather, your half-hearted support of the bill and utter inability to whip your caucus was on display with this brilliant display of support:

McCain: I’d like to see the details but hopefully yes and from the outlines that I have read of it, that this is something that all of us will swallow hard and go forward with.

Boehner: In a closed-door session with House Republicans Sunday evening, Minority Leader John A. Boehner called the $700 billion financial rescue deal a “crap sandwich” — then said he plans to vote for it.

Cantor: It seems that when the Democrats decided to bring the vote to the floor, they just didn’t have their votes together. Hopefully we’ll be able to reboot, and bring a plan back that meets the needs of the American people, and that will hopefully help us avoid falling into further economic decline… I think what you saw today was the will of the American people having a real impact, as it should, on the legislative body.

If this is the level of enthusiasm from the folks who were supposed to convince wary Republicans that they’d have their back a month from now if they took a bit of risk, it’s not hard to see who’s largely to blame.

This entry was posted on Monday, September 29th, 2008 at 7:54 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.