something needs to be done, but the bail out bill was too hastily done and mostly just plain wrong.

clearly, congress has learned since the USA PATRIOT act.

Wirehead, This has nothing to do with congress doing the right thing. It is about their ego and politics

yes, but politicians never do the right thing to do the right thing. They've always done it out of ambition.

I am not sure that not passing this bill is the right thing. Are you?

that there probably is a good bill that could be passed but that no bill is probably better than a bad bill.

that Wall Street is likely to hate his idea of a good bill and also thinks it'll be about 50% libertarian-free-market

the other half would be incredibly leftist.