A couple of thoughts on the bailout.

1 - At 700 billion dollars, the congress could literally have given every citizen in the united states a one time payout of (approximately) $23,000 dollars. Of course, there wouldn't be any guarantees of paybacks and no assets to claim, but if you give 300 million people 23 thousand dollars, shouldn't that jump start the economy pretty hard?

2 - How exactly is it Nancy Pelosi's fault that the Republicans can't even control their own membership? Where was the republican party whip on this issue? A full 60% of democrats voted yes to the bailout, compared to only 35.1% of republicans doing so. Lets be clear here, the bill failed to pass by 11 votes. The Democrats came through, where were the Republicans on this?

3 - It looks like Bush doesn't give a shit about congress anyways, as he's looking for loopholes to provide the money to the banks anyways. Currently the senate is voting on a resolution as well, which is confusing to me, as I thought laws had to go through congress to be considered by the senate.

4 - I don't recall Pelosi setting any of this in motion. Pelosi didn't start the crazy ass housing bubble. Pelosi didn't reward corporate CEO's with tens of millions of dollars for building up imaginary value in a company while secretly running them into the ground. Pelosi has barely been Speaker of the house for two yers now. I seriously doubt that we can blame a financial collapse on her entirely.

Rebuttals - I have never spoken with Nancy Pelosi and know little about her other than she is the current Speaker of the House. She couldvery well be a stupid cunt, but I'm going to have to ask for a personality test and an IQ test done by an impartial source before I will concede that she might in fact be a stupid cunt.

However, if we are going to subject her to that treatment, I'm going to have to insist that George Bush, Cheney, Obama and McCain all step up to the plate as well.

Christ it should probably be mandatory for the last two. You guys need all the help you can get in this election.