Further proof (if you need any more) that this is all about helping the banks maintain profitability, not solvency.
At your expense.
We need a New Deal bill, not this Contract on America crap. Start with the struggling homeowner, worker, and taxpayer, and money from the 365,000,000 of us will start flowing back into the economy: into banks, stores and the federal treasury.
This bailout is just one last bank heist spree before the GOP hits the road and takes up positions on the very boards and banks they are funneling our money to now.
Here is the PDF of the bill that failed yesterday but will be passed in large part imo by Friday.
Should be called the Bush Crime Family Theft Act of 2008.