Republicans Fail to Get the Votes, DOW loses most points ever

[A Black Falcon]

You can't just blame the failure of the bill on the Republicans since the Dems could have passed it easily if they all supported it.

Two-thirds of Democrats supported it, while two-thirds of Republicans opposed it. The Democrats had never promised more than a majority; it was the Republican leadership who failed to live up to their end of the bargain.

What I'm saying is that doing "something" is not inherently good. It has to be a well thought out something. Otherwise it'll either be no different, but an expensive no different, or it'll make things work. Doing nothing is BETTER than those two options.

I fail to see how dishing out a massive amount of cash to the very idiots that got us into this will help things. There are better solutions. LET THEM BURN!

That's the whole point, it's not just "them". Almost everybody now has money in the stock market -- mutual funds, retirement accounts, etc... letting the stock market and credit markets crash will greatly harm a LOT of American people. Doing something that might work will likely make things not quite as bad... or at least that is the hope. Of course it can't be said that "it will definitely work"... but it's got a lot better chance of working than any of the other (lack of) good ideas out there.

I mean, what do the revolting Republicans want? TAX CUTS for banks? What? So their plan is... take something that helped cause the problem, make it worse, and say that that's helping?

I think not!