took Weiner to the woodshed about Congress failing to act on this back in the fall, before the elections? Weiner finally had to admit that, yeah, that was a bad move.
I really like Weiner and Jan Schakowsky, but the way they were brushing over the reality of things just made me plain pissed off. Take some responsibility, folks: you and Nancy were just as much to blame for this as Obama. You knew damned well for months that the Senate would never have the votes. So at the eleventh hour you hold a House vote (your last, since you will be in the minority soon) for pure show, to cover your asses, knowing full well it would never fly in the other House.
And Anthony (or as we always liked to say in New York: Aaaanunee). Bull on that thing about Obama not using his bully pulpit. First of all, he freaking DID use the bully pulpit. He gave a big rally about it back in September, in Ohio, trying to whip up the people and get you guys in Congress to vote on it. I watched the whole thing on teevee, and people were going wild (transcript here, with pertinent remarks in the last half):
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/09/08/remarks-president-economy-parma-ohio . Then Congress told him, no, we're too sissy to do this before the election. I wouldn't blame him if he said, well screw you, then: I'm the freaking president and I have to be at the G-20 meeting in November, and besides, I've already got the people overwhelmingly on my side on this. You had a chance to go to your districts and tout this issue for months before the election, directly to your constituents, and you refused to do so.
This has to settle down. There is plenty of blame to go around here. And the Democrats in Congress should certainly own up to a portion of it themselves.
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