Originally Posted by mechadave

No, the House Repubs were on board, and peached later.

They are playing the usual Repub games, they will only provide the bare number of votes to pass the bail out if most of the Aye votes are from the Dems.

That way most of them can go home and falsely and piously claim they were against it.

Any other bill, whatever Bush asks they vote in lockstep. It is no mystery why they are playing games now, although the Republicans are not acting very patriotic, or very honestly.