These politicians have my blood boiling. They need to get off their high horses and get this bailout done. They're messing with our retirement funds, our bonds, our futures and they're grandstanding because of flippin' politics. I am furious with our "leaders" right now. And I won't believe for a minute that they didn't know this was coming before THIS week. Give me a flippin' break.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080926/...ncial_meltdown
The White House summit meeting had been called for the purpose of sealing the deal that Bush has argued is indispensable to stabilizing frenzied markets and reassuring the nervous American public. But it quickly revealed that Bush's proposal had been suddenly sidetracked by fellow Republicans in the House, who refused to embrace a plan that appeared close to acceptance by the Senate and most House Democrats.
Paulson begged Democratic participants not to disclose how badly the meeting had gone, dropping to one knee in a teasing way to make his point according to witnesses.
And when Paulson hastily tried to revive talks in a nighttime meeting near the Senate chamber,
the House's top Republican refused to send a negotiator.
"This is the president's own party," Frank said at the time. "I don't think a president has been repudiated so strongly by the congressional wing of his own party in a long time."