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To: pompsander who wrote (22967)9/29/2008 8:22:01 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Respond to of 25737
 
Re: "Their worst-case scenario for them might have been ... what just happened this afternoon. Opposing the bailout had been a political freeroll before because it wasn't manifest to the public what the risks of a nay vote would be."

The partisan consequences are still in flux.

But somehow I can't imagine that a vote which precipitates the entire country forward even faster into a massive recession would be *rewarded* by the public....