It seems ironic that the very people who had a large role in the present financial upheaval we are living in are the ones making the most noise about how they can fix it.  Barney Fank, Christopher Dodd, Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosi along with a host of other promininent democrats are rallying their troops around saving "mainstreet" from the ills of Wall Street.  Had they let the banks work as they are meant to, we would not be seeing a drop of 700 in the market.  Maybe we would not have cracked 11,000 either but what is worse, a market correctly valued or a market with "cooked books"?  Nanacy Pelosi did us a favor when she ranted that the Bush administrations failed economic policy helped cause this mess just prior to yesterdays vote.  She managed to rile the usual gutless republicans and even some democrats enough to vote down the bloated bid to socialize our financial institutions.  Pelosi is the worst speaker of the house in my lifetime.  The American people cannot afford to have the government running our banking instituions.