I misunderestimated him

I was a bit heartened when the House voted down the Bush-Paulson bailout bill. Now tonight the senate passed their own version of it. the whole things makes me utterly fucking sick. I had thought the days of the Bush administration fear mongering and forcing its way over the cowering democratic minority in Congress were behind us. It was a slow weaning process, but it appeared that after the FISA telco immunity bill was passed there was no more low hanging fruits of fear left to exploit. Even in that case it was a minor struggle to pass, when the Democrats at least feigned opposition for a short while to put out the image of standing up for something. Boy was I wrong. Not only were Bush and Paulson able the pass their request nearly verbatim with minor cosmetic changes designed to be ineffective but placate the masses who wouldn't read the fine print, but actually were able to get the Democrats to champion it for them, allowing the House Republicans to simultaneously stand up to it and vote no on principle, and lament over how the Democrats caused or allowed it to fail and ruined the country. Touche