Jeeze...I can't go offline for a day without the whole place falling apart

So...how much longer are YOU going to have to work, assuming you can find or keep a job, because of the hit your retirement savings took today?

This is perhaps the most "damned if you do, damned if you don't" moment in U.S. history. Here we have the Democrats in Congress once again rolling over for George W. Bush, only this time it's on a bill that most Americans decidedly don't want. Meanwhile, the Republicans, who would usually stand on their heads and spit out wooden nickels if Bush told them to, are voting against it. And now, because the Democrats are always terrified of being blamed if something goes wrong, they have now put themselves into a situation in which, having failed to pass the bailout, they can now be blamed for today's 777-point drop in the Dow.

Nice work, Nancy. What, did you think you could inoculate yourself against Republican attacks? When are you going to learn with whom you're dealing? Now the Republicans are claiming they blocked the bill to punish you for your "partisan speech."

You know, you'd think that with the Republicans showing their soft underbelly of being unable to handle even the slightest criticism, the Democrats would find it easy to show them up for the wusses they are. But you know as well as i do that's not going to happen.

Nope...before this is all over, the meme is going to be that the Democrats in Congress wrecked the economy. Because they never, ever learn.