Bail out on the bailout: Now what?

As you probably know by now, the House narrowly rejected the $700 billion financial bailout plan. Will this drive us into another Depression? Would the bill have only delayed the inevitable in addition to saddling taxpayers with the weight of nearly one trillion dollars in debt? I don’t know what the answer is, but my stepdaughter would’ve been pissed if we’d have stuck her with the bill. She hates it when we make her pay us back for a candy bar.

Here’s another thing I’ve been thinking about: it seems that Congressional opinions are all over the place on this one. There are Republicans both for and against the bill. Same thing on the other side of the aisle. What on earth are dyed-in-the-wool party members going to do now without their “unified” party to tell them what to think? Are we on the cusp of true, society-wide bipartisanship? Is it no longer about (comparatively speaking) trivial, single-issue items dealing with the Bill of Rights? If this “Depression” talk is real, the issues of gun rights, abortion, and the right to privacy pale in comparison to the possibility that we’ll all soon find ourselves living in barns and standing in bread lines.

Are we finally going to put down our Red and Blue gloves, forget our petty differences, and look towards the future?