Breaking: It’s official. House rejects Trillion-Dollar-Plus Crap Sandwich; roll call vote added

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 29, 2008 01:49 PM

Scroll for updates…roll call vote added…

The votes have been tallied.

228 NAY.

205 YEA.

The Crap Sandwich goes down in flames. (My liveblog of the floor debate is here.)

Still no official announcement on the House floor. Lots of yelling for “order.”

Someone has changed his/her vote.

It’s now 227 NAY, 206 YEA, 1 Not Voting.

1:59pm Eastern. The allotted 15 minutes for voting is over, but there is still no official announcement. Arm-twisting is underway, but only one changed vote so far.

2:06pm Eastern. It’s official. The MOAB has failed.

Yeah, a lot of Chicken Littles are running around screaming about the Dow dropping.

It’s dropped less than 5 percent.

Apocalyptics said it would be down 20-30 percent.

The bailout failed.

The world survives.

***

2:29pm Eastern. I’ve been trying to access the House website for the roll call vote, but the entire site is hung up.

Meantime, the GOP leadership is holding a press conference. Imagine if they had been on the right side of this monster. They could be claiming victory, seizing the momentum, and advancing the conservative agenda. Instead, they’re complaining about Nancy Pelosi’s partisan attack on the floor. (Vid here.) What did you expect, crap sandwich swallowers?

***

Here’s the roll call vote…

H R 3997 RECORDED VOTE 29-Sep-2008 2:07 PM

AYES
Democratic 140
Republican 65

NOES
Democrat 95
Republican 133

NOT VOTING
Republican 1

TOTALS

AYES 205
NOES 228

QUESTION: On Concurring in Senate Amendment With An Amendment

BILL TITLE: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide earnings assistance and tax relief to members of the uniformed services, volunteer firefighters, and Peace Corps volunteers, and for other purposes

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  1. #475925
    On September 29th, 2008 at 9:22 pm, flenser said:

    It’s a stupid question probably, but why not move?

    Where to? The whole country is getting that way. You can’t run forever.

  2. #475931
    On September 29th, 2008 at 9:30 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    On September 29th, 2008 at 8:40 pm, FilmLadd said:

    Good One!!

  3. #475943
    On September 29th, 2008 at 9:50 pm, FilmLadd said:

    On September 29th, 2008 at 9:22 pm, flenser said:

    Where to? The whole country is getting that way. You can’t run forever.

    True enough. Should have thought of that as I have been an advocate of fighting back… in the 2nd amendment sense.

  4. #475953
    On September 29th, 2008 at 10:08 pm, Digshot said:

    Well well well, Republicans busting out with their one good deed of the century. It’s too bad it’s all their fault in the first place, and they refuse to take responsibility, but good on them for not buying into this bull.

    Unfortunately for them, McCain is out there saying they only voted it down because of Nancy Pelosi. He’s out there frantically blaming whoever he can because he’d basically guaranteed the bill’s passage and staked his ‘leadership and experience’ credentials on it.

    Lots of pathetic to go around today. This is a crazy time to be an American.

  5. #475965
    On September 29th, 2008 at 10:19 pm, FilmLadd said:

    On September 29th, 2008 at 10:08 pm, Digshot said:

    Well well well, Republicans busting out with their one good deed of the century. It’s too bad it’s all their fault in the first place, and they refuse to take responsibility…

    Google “Community Reinvestment Act” then come back and amend your colossally ignorant statement, please.

    Homo homini lupus!

  6. #475979
    On September 29th, 2008 at 10:29 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Based on my life, I find both extremes to be prety far fetched. The stock market is notoriously all over the place. Carter’s gas lines, unemplyment, inflation, and 19% interest was much worse.

    I am not ready to fold my tent. Not by a long shot. Congress did a good thing today. I remain optomistic.

  7. #475988
    On September 29th, 2008 at 10:34 pm, micchi said:

    We got a bailout anyway the Federal Reserve popped another 650 billion into the market before the vote.

  8. #475998
    On September 29th, 2008 at 10:51 pm, mom24ks said:

    FilmLadd,
    I have to say…I am having a blast trying to translate your Latin. I had to start learning the language to be able to teach my 4th grader. My 6th grader is MUCH better than I am, maybe I’ll give her your sentences to translate for homework tomorrow.

    Have a restful evening, everyone…everything is going to be just fine.

  9. #476002
    On September 29th, 2008 at 11:01 pm, flenser said:

    FYI, Digshot agrees with Rev Wright that AID’s was invented by whites to kill blacks.

    Something to keep in mind if you attempt to have a discussion with him.

  10. #476040
    On September 29th, 2008 at 11:38 pm, IndependentTom said:

    I did some research on the FDIC. It’s funding comes from insurance premiums from the banks. No taxpayer dollars are involved.

  11. #476051
    On September 29th, 2008 at 11:43 pm, LC said:

    On September 29th, 2008 at 7:15 pm, AnotherBrian said:

    Well, let’s put it this way: Your freedom isn’t worth a whole lot when the companies that employ you are going out of business.

    People have to face facts. If you want to earn money, you give up a certain amount of your freedom.

    The economy in a melt down is not conducive to freedom.

    You ass, your freedom is worth more than all the money in the world. Maybe you’re willing to sell off yours, but I’m not willing to do the same with mine, my family’s and that of my unborn children. You have a lot to think about.

  12. #476073
    On September 30th, 2008 at 12:26 am, vatodio said:

    Wall Street if not run by fools.

    They are not going to bring the market prices below the fair market value.
    If the program trading does create the value, someone will step in and snap that security.

    If the housing runup in the last decade had more than doubled, then by the same yardstick, the stock prices need to go down to reflect the true value of the housing. That means market may go a lot further down.

  13. #476085
    On September 30th, 2008 at 12:49 am, California Red said:

    228 Republicans and Democrats took a stand today. Unfortunatley, the media narrative is that the Republicans torpedoed the bill. This hurts McCain because:

    1) He said he supports the bill.
    2) Republicans will take the heat for a downturn in the stock market.
    3) Republicans will take the heat if the economy goes into recession.
    4) McCain has been shown to be ineffective in leading his party to a consensus.

    I get so frustrated sometimes that media gets away with thier spin. They want to blame the Bush adminstration’s lack of regulation for the crisis when the truth is that McCain pushed for Freddy and Fannie regulation several years ago. Why didn’t he say that at the debate? WHy didn’t he put this right in Frank and Dodd’s lap.

    This candidate needs to get agressive because he is fighting his opponent and the media.

    I just don’t see it.

  14. #476096
    On September 30th, 2008 at 1:06 am, txvet2 said:

    On September 29th, 2008 at 10:08 pm, Digshot said:

    Unfortunately for them, McCain is out there saying they only voted it down because of Nancy Pelosi. He’s out there frantically blaming whoever he can because he’d basically guaranteed the bill’s passage and staked his ‘leadership and experience’ credentials on it.

    Meanwhile, your “leader”, as usual, is voting “absent”. Some leadership skills. Everything is above his pay grade, except community rabble rousing.

  15. #476113
    On September 30th, 2008 at 2:16 am, tettes said:

    this is complicated and i want to make sure i understand so i can encourage congress and the president to fix the actual problem.

    from what i can tell, there is about $1 trillion in subprime mortgages (not good) and about $62 trillion in credit-default swap derivatives (much, much worse). basically, bets on these mortgages and other loans.

    these are traded on an unregulated market i believe the subprime mortgage problem is being multiplied greatly by these unregulated “bets.” just look at how much money is in that market: $62 trillion. amazing!

    this is the market that needs fixing first. i don’t want homeowners to get something for nothing, but these leveraged bets absolutely must stop immediately.

    the fat cats are directing our focus from the real (and complex) issue so we squabble among ourselves about bad decisions by homeowners, minorities, etc.

    Wall street’s failures FAR outstrip the poor decisions made by borrowers. it’s not even close!

    why not just cancel these derivative contracts and see what happens before we throw tons of cash at the problem and continue to blame our neighbors for causing this mess?

  16. #476118
    On September 30th, 2008 at 2:53 am, Gull said:

    Something smells fishy about all of this ….

    90+ dems voted “nay” …. McCain went bipartisan and called in many more than the original 4 who supported the bill ….

    I’m thinking that dems have set us up for their pre-announced “October Surprise” — in which Obama will now rush onto the scene and in a flurry of self-elevating verbosity — single-handedly and miraculously save the federal government, Wall Street, main street America, the Global Economy and planet earth from collapse!!!!!

    wow.

  17. #476130
    On September 30th, 2008 at 5:48 am, txvet2 said:

    On September 30th, 2008 at 12:49 am, California Red said:

    228 Republicans and Democrats took a stand today. Unfortunatley, the media narrative is that the Republicans torpedoed the bill.

    The more I look at this, the surer I am that this is a deliberate strategy of the Democrat leadership aimed at winning the Presidency and more seats in Congress. First Obama blows up the Bush’s “bipartisan” meeting, then Pelosi deliberately blows up the vote and the media rushes in to blame Republicans. Then the market tanks in the last minute of the day, so everybody can scream “crisis” again. Too many coincidences.

  18. #476619
    On September 30th, 2008 at 12:02 pm, Digshot said:

    Meanwhile, your “leader”, as usual, is voting “absent”. Some leadership skills. Everything is above his pay grade, except community rabble rousing.

    He said he was going to vote for it.

    You know he’s in the Senate, and not the House, don’t you?

  19. #476634
    On September 30th, 2008 at 12:06 pm, Digshot said:

    FYI, Digshot agrees with Rev Wright that AID’s was invented by whites to kill blacks.

    Something to keep in mind if you attempt to have a discussion with him.

    And flenser just plain makes stuff up.

    Just something else to ‘keep in mind,’ around here.

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