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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.

2 Responses to “The No Votes”

1. DP Says:
   November 30th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

   I must be reading this wrong, or I simply can’t count, because based on the table above I read 228 “No” and
   205 “Yes”. Is this the first pass of the bailout, the one that was voted down?

2. Mark E Hoffer Says:
   November 30th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

   DP,

   it has to be, that was the reported Roll Call # on the version that ‘failed’–the first vote.