Spineless

So the bailout deal has gone under, and the House Republicans are on TV blaming the failure on a "partisan speech" delivered by Nancy Pelosi shortly before the vote, which GOP leader John Boehner claims caused a number of Republicans who had promised to vote "yes" to change their minds. Leaving aside the question of whether Pelosi's speech (which blamed the Bush administration's policies for the financial problems, but was not particularly sharp or inflammatory), are Republicans really so thin-skinned that they're going to change their minds after hearing a partisan speech? I would have to imagine that this isn't the first partisan speech that they've heard. Sounds to me like some spineless wonders lost their nerve...