Excerpted from an article on the front page of today's New York Times...

“The Europeans not only provided a blueprint, but forced our hand,” said Kenneth S. Rogoff, a professor of economics at Harvard and an adviser to John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee.

In the process, Mr. Rogoff and other experts said, the government is remaking the financial landscape in ways that would have been unimaginable a few weeks ago — taking stakes in the industry and making Washington the ultimate guarantor for banking in the United States.

Like the article posted above says...America First.

If we could believe that any elected official insode Washington's beltway really believed that, maybe we should vote for them. But at the moment, I don't think any current member of the U.S. Congress has earned the right to re-election. Unfortunately, we'll have to vote for at least one of the ones who are running for President.