Ma'am;... Having those two clowns in that ring actually detracts from the main show... That is the high wire act the government is going to walk, putting its life on the line, and our futures, to save a bunch of good for nothing loan sharks. I should be doing a dance right now. I am a revolutionary and I know revolutions are only possible when the government bankrupts itself for one stupid cause after the other. The only problem is that revolutions all clean up a lot of left over hatred, anxiety, and hard hard feelings. Bad governments can only rule by division, and you, and many of your opinion pushers serve that division. That is going to have to end. Will it end with a civil war, or a blood bath, or a reign of terror? Revolution requires no more than a change of forms, one form of government for another. Simple, and its over. Some parasites are going to find themselves without the wealth they have robbed from the country. Won't they be angry? Won't they want to fight, and won't they find willing soldiers in the angels of god? Come on... Let's change the form of our government before it gives up control of the society all together. Who can get control back when a mob of people is burning through Washington looking for their pension check, or their job, or their hope? We have never gotten what we should have from our government. You are a perfect example that we have no perfect union. If the government supports this bail-out, it is to save their own butts one more day, when; if they were good, and were Americans they would say that they have all failed us, and call a constitutional convention. We do not need a new bail-out that never helps bailout the common man, -what you call lard. We need a new government, and one we can all support. ..Thanks...Sweeney

This is how amnesiac partisans like you spin your silly lies. Somehow now McCain is for the bail out now that everybody knows it's going to go through (just last column you were against it--now you're for it), and of course that must mean Obama is against it and wants the American economy to tank. ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Got news for you Babe--there's a third alternative to the two you pose that apparently hasn't crossed your little mind. If "the package goes through and the market rallies," that just means the market rallies, like it has all along when free money is thrown at it. The "market" is a bunch of termites eating at the foundation of our economy right now, and it is no indicator of anything more than denial and mindless greed still chomping, chomping, chomping away. ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
The third alternative, in case you you haven't figured it out, is that the package goes through, the marker rallies for a little while, and then we don't live happily ever after. That would be because the basic problem with our credit-dominated model of economic growth (you know, spend what you don't have now and worry about paying for it later) has not been fixed, and Wall Street just got another free ride. And what a whopper this time.