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...Woman in Charge American voters know that the U.S. is way behind other countries at having a woman as leader of the nation [Sept. 22]. The quickest way to remedy that is to vote Republican this time. If the next President is a Democrat, in four years he will still be young and surely will seek re-election. However, John McCain, after reaching the high point of his ambitions, will be fading, opening the Republican ticket for Palin. Furthermore, with Obama losing in 2008, Hillary Clinton will come back unstoppable, next time around. Then, whichever way it goes, we will...
...Indeed, before Monday's vote, angry constituents overwhelmingly panned the plan championed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. The volume of e-mail crashed the House's website. After Wall Street tumbled 778 points, voters are still mad - and now even more confused. Representative Steve LaTourette, a Republican from Ohio, tells it this way: until Monday, the calls and e-mails to his office were 200-to-1 opposed to the bailout. But after the huge market drop, only about half the people calling his office congratulated him for voting against the bill. "The other half are looking at their...
...stakes became even clearer once the 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...
...meantime, House GOP factions jockeyed to have their proposals included in whatever new bill is negotiated - many boasting that they (unlike their leaders) can deliver the necessary votes if their ideas are adopted. Jeb Hensarling, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a group of fiscal conservatives in the House, sent a letter to the group's 100-plus members advocating their involvement in a solution. "House conservatives have authored many alternatives that would work if only the Administration and the Democrat majority are willing to meet us halfway," Hensarling wrote. Representative Darrell Issa pushed a plan that he has advocated...
...House Democrats have two choices: move the bill further to the right to try and get more GOP votes (but risk alienating more Democrats) or forsake bipartisanship altogether and write a bill they like (with such provisions as more aid to ailing homeowners) that can garner enough Republican votes in the Senate and pass without input, or support, from House Republicans. Pelosi, however, has all along stressed the need to have bipartisan support for such a controversial bill only five weeks before Election Day. And some political observers argue that the Dems have very little incentive to take such...