[Buckeye McFrog]

I give him tremendous credit for trying.

This is DOA in Congress.

The lesson of 2008 is thus:

If you go before the United States Congress with a sufficiently butt-puckering Chicken Little tale of impending doom and collapse, you WILL get a bailout.

Once you bail out the nation’s five or six wealthiest banks nobody else is taking no for an answer.

[A strike]

Of course this can’t stand. CA is ‘too big to fail’.

[Jacquerie]

Good point. Probably right.