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...could have gotten there today had it not been for the partisan speech that the Speaker gave on the floor of the House.' House minority leader JOHN BOEHNER, accusing Nancy Pelosi of diminishing Republican support for the $700 billion bailout plan...
...rank and file weren't necessarily ready to play follow the leader. Chasing Boehner and his deputies down the Cannon House Office Building's marble stairs, reporters asked if the party's top dogs believed they would get enough votes. They expected "substantial support," barked Representative Roy Blunt, the second ranking House Republican, who represented the House GOP at the negotiations, as he hustled away...
...tally started at 1:27 Monday afternoon. By 1:51, 227 members had voted against it - nine votes more than the 218 majority. By 2:02 p.m., Hoyer and Representative Rahm Emanuel, the No. 4 House Democrat, were in animated discussions on the Republican side of the chamber with Boehner and Blunt. Hoyer "was running around in there saying, 'The market is falling! The market is falling!' " said Scott Garrett, a New Jersey Republican. Faced with a major GOP shortfall, Democrats refused to force 12 of their members to change their votes for a bill that they had just spent...
...quickly. But with the Jewish New Year celebration starting Monday night, nothing can be done until Wednesday evening at the earliest, and the House is not expected to be back in session until Thursday at noon. Democrats pledged to keep working on a bipartisan basis, though privately many questioned Boehner and Blunt's ability to deliver their fellow party members...
...quick to point outraged fingers, citing Speaker Nancy Pelosi's closing speech before the vote as breaking the bipartisan spirit of the proceedings. "The Speaker had to give a partisan voice [sic] that poisoned our conference, caused a number of members we thought we could get to go south," Boehner ranted to reporters after the vote - as if partisan speeches had never before been heard on the House floor...