It took David Carrier (D-Cascade Park) getting stood up twice before he decided to stand up. At least that is one way to look at it. The Columbian is reporting that the WSU-Vancouver assistant economics professor was ditched twice by Sen. Don Benton for meetings on affordable housing, health care and predatory lending before finally showing up and trumpeting the need for tax cuts.
A plurality of Washingtonians (37 to 30 percent) want their representative to vote for some kind of economic rescue plan according to a Survey USA ...>
"I just feel like this was a rush. I don’t totally trust the process that we have gone through for the last seven to eight days."
- Republican Rep. Dave Reichert on the Bush administration's execution of their plan to convince Congress to vote for the $700 billion financial industry aid plan.