October 3, 2008
House Relents, Approves 'Financial Rescue'
Photo by afagen
Remember Monday, when the U.S. House refused to pass a $700 billion bailout package and everyone kinda freaked out? Well a little less than an hour ago they came together for another vote, this time on the Senate's version of the deal, and voted for it. We can't help but feel like the strangest part about the affirmative vote is not actually that it happened, but that even though it probably wasn't clear until this morning whether enough members had switched to the other side, the vote just doesn't seem like a big surprise. Was anyone really expecting the House not to go along with the Senate on this one, after the way the markets reacted to Monday's vote?
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Yaaaayyyyy! We're all gonna be reech!
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I said it on Monday, and I'll say it on Friday: another great chapter in Profiles in Courage... :\
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"Was anyone really expecting the House not to go along with the Senate on this one"
no, just "Hope" ... that they wouldn't.
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Do we all get a free wooden arrow now that this has passed?
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Wow. So we're at war, on the business end of an energy crisis, politically divided, and now also publicly broke. Sweet.
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Lessons from the 2nd Session of the 110th Congress:
Me on Monday: "Look, boss. There's no way I can get this project out the door. No way!"
Me on Friday: "Hey, boss. Look! I did it! I did it! I'm a genius."
Me on Saturday: "Sucker!"
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MohaganyShip: When was our Country not "politically divided"? Just a few fleeting moments i suppose.
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I guess 263 reps/staff saw the weather report for the weekend.
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man, so we don't get to see apocalypse in our lifetimes?!? dang!
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Where is Brett Gellman's preview of the Border Matchup between the Terps and "Hoos". I will be in Charlottesville wearing red. FREDTERP
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I'm so totally celebrating this federal balls out program!
Wait.
What?
Bailout?!?! WTF! Now you tell me!?