Blunt Walks It Back: It Wasn't Pelosi After All

Maybe it was Barney Frank's mockery, or maybe it was just an impulsive decision to tell the truth, but Missouri Republican Roy Blunt, the lead House GOP bailout negotiator is backpedaling his claim from Monday that Nancy Pelosi's floor speech turned had led to GOP defections.

Blunt told ABC News that only "one or two" Members could have been affected by Pelosi's speech, adding "I think you don't want to give too much blame to that speech."

Politico also has an interesting piece up about how John Boehner's job may now be in jeopardy. What struck me most was this paragraph:

“You can’t break their arms, you can’t put your whole relationship on the line, ask them to do something that they do not want to do and have that member regret that vote for the rest of their life,” Boehner said. “Twenty years from now, nobody will care how anyone voted except those members. You can’t do that. You just can’t.”
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did you also see on huffpo how newt stabbed John Boner in the back...i think the rethugs were thought their tantrum yesterday was going to fly!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/30/r...b_n_130487.html

Yes I did. Newts a real asshat. A real sleaze ball for the way he treated his first wife while she was hospitalized for breast cancer.

Anyway you slice what happened yesterday, the Republicans came out losers.

So much for a cohesive Republican Party - they did not back their dear leader. That's the bottom line. And they tried to cover that up by shifting blame to Pelosi.

To me this was the final straw. Their crumbling yesterday revealed in living color the Republican party is in a heap of ashes.

When do we celebrate it though? I see the end of the gop coming for generations, it will be a new generation of freaks in 30 years that will repeat all of this, as history has a way of doing, unless we elect dems for the next 16 years. 16 years of using your briain instead of your ass will pay off big time, of course Ill be in my 60's and probably still won't be able to retire.