Dude are they all idiot career politicians with no understanding for the impact of the financial meltdown.  The Dow dropped 705 points yesterday and lost over a trillion (yes, with a ‘t’) dollars of market capitalization.  I speculate that it’s probably close to $2 trillion when you consider the last month of market free-fall.  I think everyone agrees that this is not a perfect plan, but something needs to get done promptly at the expense of a less than optimal bill.  These dumbass GOP congressmen only voted against this to try to save their asses with an election coming up and they can only do this in districts where being ‘fiscally conservative’ trumps being rational.  Being in Florida I fall into that category, there are way too many grayhairs here that only think about their social security check and only read the “$700 Billion” headline.  That lead my coward Republican Representative, Bill Young, to vote against the plan. There is also a sense that these same congressmen are voting against it because they feel that any plan will give forgiveness to the bankers that got us into this mess.  Get over it! Were in a shitty position now and who cares how we got here – let’s just get out of it.  At the minimum I really think that Bush’s presidential legacy will look better now because people are going to remember congress screwed this up and also Obama will win because the Republicans look bad after all this.

** Everyone I know would agree that I am not ‘political’, but congress really screwed this up.