What's next? I don't know but I'm sure than McCain will attack Obama for some stupid reason in no time.

Greg I don't buy the pundits' insistence that Americans hate this bailout. I think if you asked correctly, almost everyone would say that something needed to be done -

I really cannot gage how well people understand how completely interdependent all our financial institutions are, but I think they got a big fat lesson in the last 10 days.

I don't think there is one thing that is going to save John McLame.

If I was a McCain strategist, I would be thinking:

"What can we do to turn the race around and put McCain in front?"

1) Stunts are out. He's overplayed that hand.

2) Issues are out, Americans only care about the economy, and they agree with Obama there.

3) Personalities are out, Obama has a reassuring, calm personality and McCain seems erratic and angry.

4) That leaves.. constant smear attacks, which are ineffective seeing as Obama has no real dirt on him which hasn't been extensively hashed and rehashed in the primaries.

Therefore, McCain is royally screwed. Quod Erat Demonstratum.

Obama victory in november.

Please stop calling it a bailout.

It is not that. It is money mittens to keep billionaire Wall St. urchins warm this winter.

Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!

That will be the debate going forward. Economy will still be king although McCain will try to attack McCain on his "associations", "the surge", and taxes.

Pelosi's speaking. "We have to make sure this never happens again" WTF???

Um..we had regulation in place - remember the crash of 1929?

It was the stinking republicans - Phil Gramm, John McCain and the like who rolled back those regulations and allowed this crap to happen.

So who's to say in 80 years when this tragedy has passed that greedy bastards will not roll regulation back again?

Those who do not learn from the past are destined to repeat it.

This might be a stupid question...anyone else going to see "An American Carol" tonight? (Dinner and a movie; just doing my part to keep the ecomomy rolling)

It might turn out to be throwing good money after bad, but I don't think there was another choice at this point. No one has any idea what these convoluted high-grade structured-credit enhanced-leveraged mortgage-based googabamumper funds are or were worth, but they will be ours now.

What's next? Well, for one thing the queue is forming up.

Next? They're all going to Disneyland!

Please send a complain to CNBC about what just aired through the link below:

Charlie Gasparino on CNBC just went off on a rant blaming the housing crisis on the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) - this is a widely debunked racist right-wing talking point that was started by Ann Coulter of all people. While the others on the panel, who were actually financial experts, tried to argue against him he just shouted louder and louder and wouldn't let anyone speak and the piece ended. Please write to them through this link and complain about CNBC taking racist right-wing propaganda and pushing it as financial market analysis:

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This helps McCain because the crisis was sucking all oxygen out of the room meaning there was nothing he could do to try and change the subject or launch a new attack that would have any chance at sticking.

With Brokaw moderating on Tuesday and thus picking the townhall questions you can expect a Rev. Wright question to be asked and thus will be used as the impetus by the McCain Camp to run their Rev. Wright Campaign saying "We didn't bring it up a town haller asked the question which means Americans still have questions on the matter".

I'd bet my house on the fact that there will be a Rev. Wright question on Tuesday. Brokaw's gift to his BFF McCain.

Before the Economic bill was passed, Obama could always parry and say "Same old politics and distractions when America is in a national economic meltdown", however that defense will lose a lot of impact given that the bill has been passed and the outcome is largely out of the hands of the politicians for the time being.

Obama can both mobilize anger about the need to have bailed out the financial markets, and cannot now be charged with having obstructed a fix. He can juxtapose McCangy's vote for the bailout with his 26-year career of voting against the interests of working and middle class people. Greg's analysis properly accounts for the volatility of the political climate, but I'm pretty optimistic of how this plays out. Also, McCain is a mistake-prone and undisciplined candidate, and Obama an incredibly disciplined one.

Also key: A majority of GOPers again opposed the plan. Ninety one House Republicans voted for it, and 108 voted against, again casting doubt on McCain's ability to rally members of his own party behind a measure that he suggested was necessary to rescue the Republic from doom.

Undecided voters should look at this example of McCain's leadership and do the right thing.

And if that doesn't do the trick, try this:

The public has clearly decided it favors Obama's handling of the crisis. And Obama has been edging into a more active role amid the evolving meltdown, calling House members to rally them behind the bailout and repeatedly demanding on the stump that Congress pass the plan.

So I thought the Democrats wouldn't pass this thing without the majority of Republicans supporting it. What happened to that? The party just set up their Congressmembers to take a big re-election hit should this thing actually make things worse.

And what the fuck was with all that pork barrel spending? Fuckin' ARROWS? Movies? Rum? All inserted by Democrats. While we need more Democrats, certainly, we also need better Democrats!

Anyway, about the election--I seriously doubt the economy issue will be turned because things will only get worse before they get better. The passage of this bill won't automatically fix the problems that are causing nine straight months of job-loss, and certainly won't fix anything before November.

Obama all but nullified the CIC question with his debate performance. Just about every smear has been debunked by the MSM, and the third and last debate will be about, well, the economy.

But now's not the time to lean back and coast to victory--now's the time to push harder than ever! Max out your donations this month, folks (do some for me, too, since I'm living in Europe right now and don't have a checking account from which to donate). As James Carville suggested, McCain is sinking, time to throw him a gawdamn anchor!

McCain has to debate Obama on jobs for the next month. And it's going to have to consist of much more than "Lower taxes create more jobs", because that's been proven an utter falsehood this past year.

So what does he say? Obama wants to tax you out of your home? I can't see the majority of the voting pop buying that lie anymore.

It is a placebo - you are just right.

It's partly a matter of perception, liam - the markets operate on perception, actually - that's all they have.

Can we have the names and districts of those 108 cowardly Republicants please?

This bill was a bandaid, and it's probably just going to prevent a colossal disaster.

The economy is the number 1 issue, and even without this bill, it's still going to be the number 1 issue. McCain doesn't have any tricks left, as far as I can see. He can't pick another snazzy shiny object as Veep, he can't "suspend" his campaign, he can't jet back into Washington to talk a lot on his Blackberry and ignore Obama...what can he do? Call for a commission to solve the problem? Already done.

So to get attention away from the economy, he's going to have to bring up Wright, Ayers, and Rezko, and question Obama's judgment. It's late, at this point, to do this, but he's got nothing else left.

I watched the debate last night on CNN with the sound off, and alternating between the debate and "Children of Men" (thinking to myself through the whole movie that if McCain wins, this is what our future might look like). Anyway, I'd turn back to CNN, and look at the squiggly lines. They were regularly positive when Biden spoke, and neutral or slightly positive when Palin spoke. Anyone else notice anything like that?

Now what?

The public overwhelmingly holds Bush and republicans responsible for the economic turmoil.

Because of McCain's dramatics, he tied this bailout onto his back, so when it failed to get passed, McCain was blamed.

Some republicans hold McCain responsible for supporting this bill, and they see it as another reminder of the maverick's voting record.

And now that the bill has passed, his surrogates aren't even suggesting that McCain saved the day. The bailout and the economy has become a loser for McCain.

Can we PLEASE get links to votes on the house site on articles?

Lets see we spend a Trillion dollars to free up the credit markets and all will be OK. So in order to do this smart people with bad paper sell it back to us and then they put our money back to work any place in the world they choose.

So now after having made a series of bad deals that they got bailed out on now they are going to do the same thing again so we can bail them out again? I think not.

Credit is going to be must harder to get and more expensive. People that have saved in the past are finally going to get some return. Jobs are going to be slim to non existent.

So here we are we have already spent a Trillion dollars that should have been spent on bridges, energy research and recovery You Obama people believe in the Tooth Fairy. Whoever wins the election will have their Visa card revoked. The common taxpayer will be getting a raise alright. A raise in their tax burden. If you are looking for a better life from the government it doesn't work that way unless your already rich.

Get off your asses and fend for yourselves. If you are looking for happy days being here again just because some ego driven politician says so you folks are truly dumb as you sound.

"Bailout attempt 1- Republicans: it cost to much we cant expect tax payers to pay for it.
Bailout attempt 2, with extra pork the taxpayers have to pay- Republicans: ok we change our mind.

Its crazy they say they voted against it to protect taxpayers so they made the bill even more costly to taxpayers then they vote for it."

This billions bailout is going to come back to haunt the Dems - the McCain folks will make sure of that.

Captain of the Titanic: "Did we hit an iceberg?"
"Sir, I think it hit us..."

Either way we're sunk.