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Something smells

Monday's House of Representatives vote stages a gambit reminiscent of the ploy in the "Manchurian Candidate." In the 1962 movie, scheming politicians plan to stampede voters into electing their stooge in the upcoming elections.

In the bloody aftermath of yesterday's defeat of the bipartisan compromise financial bill in the House, Democrat Barney Frank, chair of the House Finance Committee, played the part of a congressman who had worked so hard to pass the bill. Blaming 12 unnamed Republicans for the bill's failure, his impassioned sound bite created a new urban myth just in time for the upcoming elections.

Fortunately, just as the plot in the "Manchurian Candidate" was exposed before it could be carried out, the fingerprints on the Democrat's plot are obvious enough to be exposed, too.

It's not the unnamed 12 Republicans who voted against the bill that tell all. It's the specific Democrats who voted against the bill that expose the scheme.

• If Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Speaker of the House believed passage of the bill was essential to the economy and wanted the support of Republican votes, she would not have prefaced the vote with a highly partisan tirade against administration economic policies.
• If she wanted passage, Pelosi's top committee chairs and subcommittee chairs would not have voted against it.
• If she wanted passage, Pelosi's close friends and allies would not have voted against it.
• If she wanted passage, the Democrats on Barney Frank's House Financial Services Committee would not have voted against it.
• If she wanted passage, she would have brought the Congressional Black Caucus into line.

Pelosi's speech signaled her intention to make this a partisan issue, and use it to beat up on Republicans who supported the bill ╉ putting both their principles and their seats in jeopardy. It was a declaration of war. She has happy to see Republicans bolt. It gave her someone to blame.

The bill's failure was deliberate and planned. The very same people blocking the reform measures that were recommended back in 2004 are the ones blaming others for failures resulting from their own conniving.

These shameless, lying hypocrites, now spread anger, fear, resentment, hate, and panic to stampede voters in the upcoming election. We will not be party to it.

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