The story of the morning seems to be that the Obama team is unhappy with Nancy Pelosi and the House committee chairs for delivering up such a liberal, pork-laden bill that they themselves really had nothing to do with.
The White House had written a bill, it is claimed without any earmarks, but once it got to the House, I guess the Representatives, thought a "free lunch" for themselves was available and a perfect way to get their "pet projects" in and passed.
The House bill is notable not only for its size but also because it had no earmarks, which are the lifeblood of House members, the way they show their constituents what they're doing for them. As one person knowledgable about the writing of the bill says, "if you're in the House why would you write a bill without earmarks unless you didn't write the bill?"
I think it is wonderful the bill did not pass. My personal opinion, is the House should have gotten rid of Pelosi as the speaker. I was actually hoping Cindy Sheehan would win the seat from Pelosi, during the election. But people go with "who they know" compared to who might actually do a better job "FOR the People".
From Pelosi:
We won the election, we wrote the bill," said Pelosi as many times as she could to an open microphone. But what was happening away from the microphone made it even easier for the Republicans to hold together. All they had to do was bring up Rahm Emanuel.
Headlines this morning are filled with the theme that Obama is "losing the messaging war" over the bill. But that's mostly because he never saw it as a fight in the first place. Early polling indicated that the idea of a "stimulus" was only popular with economists who wanted to see their charts change, what the public wanted was jobs. The Obama team belatedly began calling it the "economic recovery plan," but it never stuck and the damage was done.
What they need to do, is back off on give the rest of the money for the "bailout".
That is just my humble opinion.
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A man can always hope! 
Yes we are screwed!
