Bounce

Had the Republican President's bail-out bill passed, as it was predicted to do, the bounce would have gone to McCain, the Republican nominee. Speaker of the House Pelosi, a Democrat, is never going to allow that to happen, especially 5 weeks prior to elections, so before calling for the vote she delivered a stirring speech strong-arming House members to vote against the bail-out or lose their home-town elections in November.

The same tactic was employed recently to defeat the long-awaited bi-partisan energy bill, and if you can fool me once, why not twice?

The strategy worked; the bill is defeated; Wall Street is selling off at a pace that could crash the market. Desperate measures create desperate times, a calculated strategy that is as risky as the tactics used by the financial institutions to create the situation in the first place.

Hopefully, into the breach will ride a Demo bill that can be gloriously touted as saving the economy. Thus, Obama gets the bounce and home-town crowds vote Demo all the way to the White House. My only hope is that it's done quickly as I really don't give a damn about which candidate gets the bounce, just whether I continue to receive my retirement check and don't lose every dime of the money in my TSA that I've saved during the past 30 years!

God, I hate politics when the politicians put their political agenda before the good of the people!