Did McCain Save the Day?!?

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it." -- John Steinbeck from the Grapes of Wrath

The monster is out of control and trying to take us down; like Godzilla, the fiscal "crisis" is a man-made disaster stomping on all of society, indiscriminate, and unrepentant.

OK, so that is a little dramatic; but so is the rhetoric coming out of Washington and the mainstream media.

Now, I am no economist. Heck, I am not even allowed to balance the checkbook at home. But, I feel rather comfortable, after listening and reading countless experts during the last week or two, that the country is not doomed if little or nothing is done to "fix" this mess.

No, we are not plunging into a depression. Just ask ol' Tom Joad, he knows a depression when he sees one.

I been thinking about us, too, about our people living like pigs and good rich land layin' fallow. Or maybe one guy with a million acres and a hundred thousand farmers starvin'.

There ain't a hundred thousand farmers starving; there aren't over-burdened cars queuing up for a space at the govenment camps; there aren't thousands of people flocking to California to look for work picking peaches.

It is time for our leaders in Washington to slow down and think this think through.

Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said "leading Democrats on Capitol Hill were shocked by the level of divisiveness that surfaced at Thursday's extraordinary White House meeting."

Imagine someone not wanting to sign-on to the plan without comment or question. Imagine not wanting to hand $700 billion dollars and more to the people who got us into this mess to begin with.

Imagine everyone not jumping on board with the first idea floated out there; especially with a large majority of the American populace opposed to the plan.

If the Democrats are to be believed, John McCain may have saved the American people from this plan. And despite what they claim, "key congressional players of both parties" are not on board with the Dems.

There is no consensus that the plan put forth by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is the right thing to do -- or that it will even work!

"Obama vice presidential running mate, Joe Biden, suggested that the deal was close to finished until McCain arrived in D.C. on Thursday, one day after he suspended his political campaign to work on negotiations and called for such a high-level meeting of candidates and officials in Washington, D.C."

“He’s slowed it down,” Frank said of McCain’s impact on the negotiations.

Well, thank you John McCain.