<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yesterday's House vote on the bail-out bill was history in the making. We only have a little of the story so far. I expect mainstream analysis to be shallow and misleading.<div><br></div><div>Some notes:<div><br></div><div><b>1. The roll call vote (#674).</b></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll674.xml">http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll674.xml</a></div><div><br></div><div>The bill was defeated by right-wing Republicans (Mike Pence, etc.) and progressive Democrats (Dennis Kucinich, Marcy Kaptur, Sheila Jackson Lee, etc), but the split was not clean the way most House votes have been over recent years.</div><div><br></div><div><b>2. Huge public interest in the floor debate.</b></div><div><br></div><div>C-Span's streaming web server could not handle the traffic of people watching the debate live. The Library of Congress THOMAS web server carried this notice:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">NOTICE: Due to a high volume of traffic, some THOMAS users have reported problems running searches. We are working on this issue.</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>What was the debate about?</div><div><div><i>On motion that the House agree to the Senate amendment to the House amendment to the Senate amendment.</i></div><div><br></div><div>In detail:</div></div><div><div><i>On Concurring in Senate Amendment With An Amendment: H.R. 3997 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.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Wow. People were watching this? In the same country where American Idol was a hit?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">The debate is viewable here - I'm not sure how long this link will work:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; "><<a href="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/flash/player-time.html?start=2008-09-29%2009:26:40&stop=2008-09-29%2017:33:00&net=1">http://www.c-spanarchives.org/flash/player-time.html?start=2008-09-29%2009:26:40&stop=2008-09-29%2017:33:00&net=1</a>></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b>3. This seems genuinely to have been a surprise to the party leaders.</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Disbelief as House deals death blow to bailout bill</span></div></i></div><div><a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i4qeoLai_w8YFa0X_TYiioxTQx5A">http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i4qeoLai_w8YFa0X_TYiioxTQx5A</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>4. Alternative analysis.</b></div><div><br></div><div>a. Michael Moore - Congratulations, Corporate Crime Fighters! Coup Averted for Three Days!</div><div><br></div><div><i>But what they didn't know was that hundreds of thousands of Americans woke up yesterday morning and decided it was time for revolt. The politicians never saw it coming...</i></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=236">http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=236</a></div><div><br></div><div>b. Mike Ruppert - What Really Happened Today</div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>This is now the fast crash scenario. It is further complicated by two things...</i></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://fromthewilderness.com/whatreallyhappenedtoday2008.shtml">http://fromthewilderness.com/whatreallyhappenedtoday2008.shtml</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>