I think Porter (NV-03) and Shays (CT-04) voted yes. McNerney (CA-11) voted yes on the Democratic side, but his opponent is currently being investigated for wrong-doing out here in CA.

Could it boomerang on Pelosi and our party in general?

I think Obama has thought, like most people, incl. myself that cooler heads would previal and a bailout plan would be passed by the end of this week.  This has allowed him to stay above it all on the campaign trail, while also lobbing the politcal grenages at McCain.

Now what if there is no bailout and we see a big bank failure in the next week? How do you stay above that?  Will soaring speeches play as well in economic gloom, or might straight talk, tough talk or whatever make a comeback?

I dunno.

What happens to Pelosi who some are now blaming for making a partisan left turn this morning which has some saying cost as many as a dozen GOP votes?  

What happens to Democrats should Congress wrap and lawmakers head home and the crisis continues to unfold?   What if, as asked above, what if another shoe drops a week from now and lawmakers are back home in their districts campaigning?

I hate to hijack this but you're not reachable by email.  I'm having every post I've ever written zeroed out by "billiehero".  I do not know who this person is.  It seems he got an account, about five people mojo'd him into tr status (although it only shows up as one mojo - weird), and now he's going on an hr tear.

Based on the way it seems to playing so far, the Republicans walked away from the deal and the market tanked.

Clay, D-St. Louis, both voted NO...and theirs are two of the safest Democratic seats in the nation, and they often side with leadership.  This was one wildly unpopular measure.  Was the Black Caucus against it?

And now, anyone voting "yes" will see the albatross of this bill grow.

Bad for Democrats then.

I used to have one of those when I was a kid!  It looks stupid compared to today's videogames, but it was a hell of a lot of fun for 45 years ago.

Is that like "jumbo shrimp"?

The myopia is incredible today. Paulson, himself, said it would be two or three weeks before they'd even be up and running, and that was IF the bill was passed today.

I find it completely ironic that all these folks that accused me and others of claiming the sky was falling--including those asses on Wall St.--over the past few months of being total hypocrites today.

God for-freakin'-bid we should spend a few more days working out a better-thought-out plan!?!?!?

Vote rescheduled in the House for Thursday.   My guess is a 650 point tanking of the Dow will be enough to get some people off the fence.

Congress forgot one thing today.   Everyone expected a bailout plan to pass.  Pols have been saying one will pass.  McCain, Obama, all have said they thought a deal would pass.  Obama said so again today.

Markets don't like surprises.  They react badly to them.  If they couldn't deliver a deal, they shouldn't have made a deal seem so near.  This really blew up in everyone's face today (everyone -- I am being bi-partisan here, Bush, Boehner, Reid, Pelosi, McCain, Obama, everybody).

Here's a pretty neat graphical representation of how the votes went down.  Notice:

McCain - didn't deliver Arizona
Palin - didn't deliver Alaska

Make what you will of it.

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/RO LLCALL.html?currentChamber=house&cur rentSession=2&currentCongress=110&am p;currentRoll=674

I honselty don't feel good about what happened today. Unlike a lot of progressive bloggers, I do see grave consequences as a result of the credit freeze. That said, all Pelosi said last night was that the Republicans were responsible for getting us in this situation and it was their responsibility to find their votes to pass it. I will bet you the GOP tried to pull a fast one assuming the bill would pass and now that the Dow is down 700+ points, they realized ow badly they screwed up. But being Republicans what do they do? They whine that Nancy said bad things about Bush and their record. So childish.

Yeah, it's interesting.  I live in Western Massachusetts, represented by Congressman Olver who is pretty much in his seat for as long as he wants it.  He voted Yes.

On the other hand, Kirsten Gillibrand, across the border in a formerly very GOP county in NY (she won her first election because the current rep imploded in a horrible family scandal)where her seat will always be somewhat contested, voted no.

I don't think this is such an emergency that things have to be done with this kind of haste.  I'm relieved this did not pass, but hope there is no poltical fallout against Obama (you never know where the twists and turns of this kind of situation will take you).  There has to be a much better way of dealing with this situation (note, not crisis, at least not yet).

The two Dem. Reps. with no opposition voted yea, the Republican Rep. Capito, with strong challenger Dem. Anne Barth in WV-02, voted against.

Securities & Investment Sector: Top Recipients

Candidate                  Amount    Voted
Emanuel, Rahm (D-IL)      $600,500  Aye
Shays, Christopher (R-CT) $362,720  Aye
Rangel, Charles B (D-NY)  $329,850  Aye
Paul, Ron (R-TX)          $313,129  Nay
Allen, Tom (D-ME)         $277,640  Aye
Gillibrand, Kirsten (D-NY)$269,050  Nay
Udall, Mark (D-CO)        $249,568  Nay
Kirk, Mark (R-IL)         $243,850  Aye
Kanjorski, Paul E (D-PA)  $241,849  Aye
Bean, Melissa (D-IL)      $207,100  Aye
Bachus, Spencer (R-AL)    $206,900  Aye
Hoyer, Steny H (D-MD)     $184,499  Aye
Cantor, Eric (R-VA)       $176,800  Aye
Frank, Barney (D-MA)      $176,400  Aye
Crowley, Joseph (D-NY)    $171,550  Aye
Klein, Ron (D-FL)         $166,700  Aye
Mahoney, Tim (D-FL)       $166,040  Aye
Murphy, Chris (D-CT)      $164,290  Aye
Murphy, Patrick J (D-PA)  $154,750  Aye
Maloney, Carolyn B (D-NY) $154,325  Aye

there's no backlash from them.  They're the ones who are calling their legislators objecting to the current bailout plan and its massive transfer of wealth to the investor class.

If he's on the side of Wall Street and places their needs ahead of voters, he'll not do well.