Many of the Democrats and Republicans who voted against it were those facing re-election and received enormous numbers of calls from their constituents pleading with them to not vote for the bill. People have lost site of what is at risk; standing on ideology largely communicated as nothing more than spin.
What SHOULD be done and what IS being done are often two vastly different things. Today is a perfect example.
The market has rebounded somewhat in the last 20 minutes but looks like it will still close about 600 points down.
