Anybody interested in the financial health of this country, as well as those interested in reading a script worthy of prime-time television programming should check out [the front page of the New York Times. ](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/business/26bailout.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin)
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In the Roosevelt Room after the session, the Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., literally bent down on one knee as he pleaded with Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, not to “blow it up” by withdrawing her party’s support for the package over what Ms. Pelosi derided as a Republican betrayal.*
Apparently this has come down to partisan politics, as if it would be any different. The Republicans have decided against the package and the Democrats do not want to vote for the bailout unless the GOP also supports it, lest the package fail and the Democrats get the blame.
Pitiful American government at work.
