The republicans in congress certainly deserve a mounding heap of blame for what has happened. Yesterday, the democrats earned their mounding heap. First, Nancy Pelosi is a fool. In a time when politics should be put aside for the good of everyone, she takes the last five minutes before a historic vote to give a speech demonstrating her partisan hackmanship. Then the dems vote down the bill they said nobody wanted but we had to have. The final vote was 225-210. 93 dems voted no. Can you say "Third party candidate in '12"?

And, what about the GOPers, who, after promising to vote for the bill, voted against it?
Randall...YOUR partisanship is showing.

Shaver, that would be the "mounding heap of blame" part. I'm not sure what part of "third party candidate" you don't understand. Both parties blew it, are blowing it, and will continue to blow it. Is that bipartisan enough for you? The dems didn't need any republican votes to pass this bill. If they wanted it passed, they could have. They didn't. Nancy "I'm not a real leader but I play one on TV" Pelosi made sure of that. The republicans, at the expense of you and I, took full opportunity to make her look like the incompetent hack that she is. Both should be thrown out on their collective ears.

I have to agree with Randal on this one... Nancy Pelosi picked a poor moment to do a highly partisan speech. No Republican should have switched his vote over the speech -- they should have voted as they believed was best, period -- but it was a stupid time for her to do a big in-your-face diatribe.

As usual, you ninnies who slept through Civics class can't seem to remember that the Congress makes the laws and regulations, not the President. And we've had the Democrats in power for the last two years....you remember, when things started going to hell in a handbasket. Who are you going to blame the next four years of torture on? Oh yeah...George Bush. Silly me.

Look who the ninny is, someone who doesn't understand the difference between "control" and "simple majority". Why don't you investigate before you post something stupid and blatently partisan? The U.S. Senate consists of 49 Republicans, 49 Democrats and 2 Independents (GOP wannabe Lieberman one of those). In the House there are 202 Republicans and 232 Democrats. There is NO veto-override majority (Assuming all members show up for the vote: 68 Total Senate votes needed combined with 290 Total House votes needed to override a Presidential veto), and there is no filibuster proof majority in the Senate (Assuming all members show up for the vote: 60 Senate votes for cloture needed). In a worst case scenerio (such as we have now with the GOP getting its widdow feewings huwt in 2006) when you have a President of the opposite party, the "simple majority" party in Congress is limited to not voting through bad legislation. The attempts to conduct a veto-override on SCHIP for example failed. Why don't you learn something about how the government works before trying to blame the Democrats for not doing what they were unable to do in the 2nd session of the 110th Congress? Typical.