Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Senate Approves Bailout 61-37

The bailout passed the Senate today to no ones great surprise (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/10/senate-approves-billion-economic-recovery-package). The stocks took a tumble. The indexes were off about 4% (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Wall-St-tumbles-on-bank-plan-rb-14312204.html;_ylt=AjIcmPrZlKfhaVPch6p9wEG7YWsA). The blame for the toumble in the media is on Geithner's newly unveiled plan, or lack there of (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1a2106a6-f773-11dd-81f7-000077b07658.html).

Mean while, Schumer Says Americans do not care about the pork in the bill.

Video embedded below. (From http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/02/dem-pork-orgy-schumer-says-americans.html.)

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