All she needed to do was get another dozen Democrats to support her bailout bill and it would have passed.

But considering that only a dozen votes needed to switch in order to provide a different outcome, and 95 Democrats in the House voted against it, critics are now wondering why couldn't House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., have assured a different outcome considering how important she said its passage was?

Pelosi, whose insults directed at Republicans before the vote were a proximate cause of the legislationÂ’s defeat, failed to exercise enough party discipline to get her people to pass a bill that she considered critical to the US economy. Why didnÂ’t she act like she was the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives and use her clout to get her people in line before driving the opposition party away from the bill by her intemperate language? Could it be that she has no leadership clout, or leadership ability?

By the way, IÂ’d like to suggest that any legislation introduced in the future include a clause removing Pelosi as the Speaker of the House. She clearly lacks the skills, qualifications and temperament to be next in line for the presidency after the Vice President.

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