It does not matter which party runs the Executive and/or the Congress,
the biggest lesson out of all of this is that "immediate legislation" which effectively doubles the national debt is thievery.

Whenever anyone says there is no time to debate and analyze, but immediate need to spend money without reflective thought, the taxpaying public gets screwed.

Does anyone really believe that these bailouts were not pre-planned by a select group of folk who would profit from them? The same holds true for any other piece of legislation with a big price tag, regardless of the type of moral clothing is wrapped around it.

Fire all 445 in the House and the 34 up for election from the Senate in 2010! In this land of 300,000,000 people, there must be 479 other people than the incumbents capable of doing the job? Considering the number of unemployed, 479 of them would be better than who holds these jobs now!