The Tiger's Right Paw

"Wanted: American citizens, concerned about the United States' fate, willing to cast a vote against any member of Congress who acts first and thinks later with regard to the economy."

Strap on your spurs, pull your horse out of the corral and saddle on up — we're headed to Washington, where we'll take names and boot out the bad guys.

Already today, the Dow is headed down the pipes (below 10,000 points for the first time since 2004), but we don't have a whole lot of legislative control over that now, thanks to Congress, which, for some reason, thought it would be OK with us if it rallied around a multi-billion-dollar bailout package in under a week. 

Under a week? Is this a joke? 
Quick — name one wise decision that's been made in under a week. Now granted, certain things require fast action, and you could argue (I hope you will, if you disagree with me) that the bailout plan was one of those things.

If the Senate hadn't OK'd the bill, followed by the House's approval on Friday, things might have been over for the world economy. 

The good times, if one could say we've had them lately, would have rolled out of our hands and under the stampeding feet of stock traders on Wall Street and around the world fleeing a collapsing market.

Call me crazy, but I have a proposal: Commission Ford Motor Company to fix this, once and for all.
Already this week, the company announced that, beginning in 2010, many of its cars will have a feature that parents can use to irritate or force their children into wearing a seat belt, not going above a certain speed and not listening to music that's too loud.

We ought to force Congress to take at least two weeks to stop and consider such important decisions as an enormous bailout. 

How could there be a better solution than that?