Time for Another List

There are five groups of politicians trying to get this bailout bill passed.  I will list these groups in order of their relative power to get this bill passed:

1. President Bush (1a. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson)

2. House Democrats

3. Senate Democrats

4. Senate Republicans

5. House Republicans

The first four groups are all on board with the bailout.  The House Republicans shouldn't be ranked, because they truly have no power.  Yet they are the ones responsible for the bailout bill failing today?

I ask you, did Speaker Pelosi really want this bill passed?  If so, her speech at the beginning of the day bashing Bush was a strange way to show it.