Band-Aid Fails To Heal Massive Shotgun Wounds, News at 11.

House caves and passes porked-up $700B bailout bill. President Bush enthusiastically signs said bill. Stock market craps out anyway. The surge is working!!

Prediction: Rather than ever stopping to take the time to address the real core problems facing our economy in the last decade (lack of real job opportunities and/or job security, declining wages, rising energy and food and home costs, health-care expenses... not to mention the lack of oversight for corporate/financial activity), the DC folks will insist upon-- ala, those (like Obama, to be fair) who want another stimulus bill-- a secondary bailout package sometime in the next six months. Or maybe this type of stupidity will be flushed out along with the Bush administration. Let's take bets.