1.0 link 130310 <![CDATA[GOP Blames "Partisan" Pelosi Speech For Sinking Bailout Package]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/29/gop-leaders-blame-innocuo_n_130310.html At a press conference held mere moments after Monday's defeat of the $250 billion bailout proposal, several top Republicans nominated a scapegoat for the bill's failure: Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Even as Chris Matthews was at pains to note on MSNBC the fact that, while the Democrats had delivered more than half of their caucus in favor of the bailout plan and Republicans could not, several top GOP figures (who fractured over the actual vote) went full-tilt in blaming Pelosi personally.

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