Hello From Knoxville,

They say a picture paints a thousand words. The look on the face of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tells the story. Its the story of DEFEAT. Had Pelosi kept her mouth shut the bail out for wall street would have past. The blame lays no where but with Pelosi. Her partisan tone caused this bill to go down in defeat.  Representative Adam Putnam of Florida, the No. 3 House Republican, said Pelosi's ``speech cost us votes'' because it set a ``partisan tone,'' a reference to her comment before the vote blaming Bush administration policies for the crisis.   Of course her and Barney “fife” Frank blamed the Republicans. ``The Republicans killed this,'' said House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank  a Massachusetts Democrat. Least we need reminding. The Democrats control the house. I have said many times, Nancy Pelosi is a failure. She is a failure as Speaker of the House. The Democrats control the house of Representative and yet it’s the Republicans that killed the bill. The tally was 228 to 205. Democrats voted 140 to 95 in favor of the legislation, while just 65 Republicans backed the bill and 133 opposed it. So it’s the Republicans that killed this? Had Pelosi had the other 95 in line, the bill would have passed. For the record I am glad it failed. But its not the Republicans that killed this, it was the other 95 democrats that voted against it. Again Pictures are worth a thousand words and the look on Pelosi’s face tells it all. It is a look of Failure and defeat. The inability to keep her mouth shut caused her defeat today. The democrats have been in power for about two years and it has taken them a very short time to wreck the economy. Nancy Pelosi and the democrat leadership in congress are failures.

Have a great Night,

Keith