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Originally Posted by GatorB
You do realize people are writing their congressman 200-1 AGAINST this bailout. So now if you're a congressman running for re-election in 5 weeks you're going to vote for this?
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It's not 200-1 against, it's more like 2-1 against. Don't exaggerate to make your point, it makes you less credible.
If the leader of your party runs around saying "country first country first country first" then yeah, you should vote for this because it's for the good of the country.
What ever happened to all of the "rather lose an election than lose a whatever" talk?
People only worried about their own necks come re-election time is how we got into the Iraq war and how the PATRIOT act passed.....both of which were NOT good for the country.
Today's vote is another in a long list of reasons that we need term limits in congress. If 1/3 of the people voting today weren't on a ballot in November this would have passed easily.