Maybe the American people are finally finding some guts...refusing to be extorted and willing to take a hit to do what is right, both morally and for the long term strength of our nation.  

Because the majority of this bill was passed by Democrats and failed then it's the Democrats fault not ours.

However, if it does not go sour and it is passed because the Democrats passed it then it will be a feather on the Democrats side.  

We had 2000 bank failings in the S&L crisis and we have had 12 so far.

We keep hearing that the problem is toxic mortgages, yet 1+ trillion dollars in the market has done nothing?  We keep hearing that people took bad loans, yet we have nothing in the bill to help those people.  Someone gave those bad loans.  And many of those loans were good in the 2006 economy.

Remember the 2006 economy?  Unemployment at 4.2%, laborers working, electricians working, carpenters working, loan documentation specialists working, title holders working etc etc.

Barack Obama was very quick to point out that John McCain never used the word middle class in the debate.  Mr. Obama, in a market with accelerating unemployment, foreclosures and people struggling to put food on the table, your suggestions did not have ONE single mention of how to help the middle class.

John McCain is done.  The old bill is done.  Give me and the American people some HOPE.  

Why do we hate the bill?  Because it stabilizes.  Lots of coma victims are stabilized before they go into a coma, but they are still in a coma.  Meanwhile, the doctors, hospitals and health workers are all getting paid and either the insurance company is picking up a portion of the tab or the sick person is destined for bankruptcy.

We are a nation of people in a coma and we are bailing out the insurance companies so to speak.  When we wake up from this coma our house will be gone, our savings gone and our families fractured.  Meanwhile, the drunk driving financeers will have done their community service and will move on with their lives, their jobs and their finances hurt but intact by and large.

Do not pass this bill until it includes job creation, home owner protection, unemployment extension and a statement from our next President addressing how we the american people will be protected from losing our homes and suffering a far greater fate than the mortgage lenders.

I heard Beck forlornly talking about how inflation was going to kill us all after the bailout passed--and how he had told his wife to go shopping and buy shoes for his kids for next year. He was serious. According to Beck, we were about to go into the Great Depression because of the bailout--not unless it happened. He was advising us to stockpile sale items now because we wouldn't be able to afford them next year.

Of course, Beck, like most everyone, thought the bailout would pass and therefore he felt safe to opine about what a disaster it would be. After all, he's a conservative commentator. He's paid big bucks to be the voice of unrestrained capitalism, to convince his listeners that the "invisible hand" is kindly waving at us rather than giving us the finger.

But I bet you anything that when the bailout failed and the Dow closed at -777, Glenn Beck just about piddled his pants. I bet he did some tossing and turning last night as his portfolio took a nose dive, too. And I bet he's a lot more worried about paying for his kids' college today than he was yesterday. And it serves him right because it's guys like Beck that whipped up the stampede of emails and calls that scared conservative representatives into voting against the bill.

Pelosi, the House Leader - leader of democrats - entrusted with getting this bill through - bungles it.
Not only did she not convince and corral the democrats, but she makes a speech before the vote which is designed to alienate republicans by blaming them for the whole mess which she (and the dems) are about to clean up. You can argue that the repubs didn't put the country first, but neither did Pelosi. She as much as told the repubs they were a bunch of bungling idiots and then asks for them to validate her leadership. Can you spell diplomacy?

I hope the economy does not tank.
I hope people can get back their homes.
I hope the guilty ones suffer some consequences.
I don't know whether the bill that was defeated would have helped with any of it.

Gingrich was on the Sunday ABC new show proclaiming support for the bill, but now I'm reading he was telling House Republicans to vote against it?

What happens next Feb/March when that debt is called?

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Well, I mean, those are two of the most glaring deficiencies in this bill. And I would maintain there was never any intention to--you know, well, many members of Congress had the intention of helping people who were in foreclosure. You know, this--Wall Street doesn't want to do that. Wall Street wants to grab whatever change they can and equity that's left in these properties. So--

AMY GOODMAN: Right, but the Democrats are in charge of this.

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Right. You know, I'll tell you something that we were told in our caucus. We were told that our presidential candidate, when the negotiations started at the White House, said that he didn't want this in this bill. Now, that's what we were told.

AMY GOODMAN: You were told that Barack Obama did not want this in the bill?

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: That he didn't want the bankruptcy provisions in the bill. Now, you know, that's what we were told. And I don't understand why he would say that, if he did say that. And I think that there is a--the fact that we didn't put bankruptcy provisions in, that actually we removed any hope for judges to do any loan modifications or any forbearance. There's no moratorium on mortgage foreclosures in here. So, who's getting--who's really getting helped by this bill? This is a bailout, pure and simple, of Wall Street interests who have been involved in speculation.