Obama places no blame, but...

From NBC's Lee Cowan RENO, Nev. -- In an interview today with NBC News, Obama said House Democrats kept up their end of the deal to pass the rescue plan, but did not place blame squarely on the other side. "I think that, the key now is just to not worry about credit blame publicity, let's just do the spade work to actually get this immediate crisis passed," he said, but added, "There was an agreement between Democratic leader Pelosi and Republican leader Boehner in the House that each side was going to come up with a certain number of votes and the Democrats, I think their number was 120 and they came up with 140." Obama also hinted that had he known earlier the deal was going down to defeat he would have worked the phones even harder, especially given that some of those who voted no, were some of his early supporters . "At this point, knowing that the Republicans may not be able to muster all the votes they had promised, if we need additional votes to get this done, then I'm going ... (link)