Ace and Slublog already beat me to the punch. There are, conceivably, good reasons to vote against a bailout in a national emergency — if you think it’ll do more economic harm than good, if you think it accrues too much unchecked power to the executive — but being honked off at Nancy is not one of them.
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The Dow’s back down to -630 and creeping ever lower as I write this. You know who the big loser is here? Hint: It ain’t Barack Obama.
Update: No revote today, says Boehner. -662 and counting.
Update: -730 as of 3:30 p.m. Looks like people are rushing to dump shares before the end of the trading day.
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