So I have two questions about these trillions of taxpayer dollars about to be spent to save the "greed is good" industry from its own short-sighted avariciousness.

One: is this the kind of bail you do in a sinking boat to keep the wrecked thing afloat until you can limp into shore and find someone with a clue to fix it? Or is it the kind of bail you do when your bloated brainless boozehound relative is in jail and even though he belongs there you get his useless behind out?

And two: are there really people who, in the face of this disaster created by a lack of regulation, and in the face of the fact that oil prices are at massive record highs and there's an oilman in the White House; and that we're involved in two wars in the middle east that not only aren't we winning, it's not even clear what winning would look like; and the fact that global warming, which everyone but us agrees exists and is a dire threat, contributed to the worst hurricane season on record -- are there REALLY people who're planning to vote for the party that brought us all that?