The Vote - A Return to Bipartisan Rule?

The best thing that happened in the bailout rejection was the NO vote result. However, looking over the votes in the various states the remarkable thing is that members of the House were actually voting on what they believed and not along some party line. Could this be a return to bipartisan legislation? Probably not, but at least it could be a start.

The leader of the House in some bizarre and insane thought process wanted to poison the air for whatever reason. Here we have an historic election coming and here we have the supposed need of historic legislation. Yet here we have the leader of the House showing a great lack of leadership by attacking the very people she needed. If that is not bizarre I don't know what is!

But as far as I am concerned, Thank You House Speaker! Getting the bailout rejected is the right thing to do.

Voters across America are tired of their leaders on both sides of the House and both sides of the Senate. The proposed legislation seems to always be poorly written and written to insure that lopsided votes split along party lines will occur. All the public sees is a long series of re-dos. They see nothing that looks like well-considered legislation. Then we hear speeches at the end that blame one side or the other for legislation that in their mind will do more harm than good. What is the voting public to think?

While the result of the vote was still too partisan, scanning the individual state results it became clear that the vote was more about individual beliefs rather than party.

What is clear to me is the need for the Democrats to elect a new Speaker of the House. The current speaker simply has more experience being divisive rather than uniting.