Yeah you're right...I guess looking on the plus side, if this thing works out which for the reasons we've always talked about looks like it will, we'll have a better group of investors in for the long haul and some stability I hope...and not just up heavy based on hedge funds and these manipulators.
I would think that Congress will pass the bill. They would be crazy not to at a time like this, and if anything with so many banks in trouble of going under, it should have been done a long time ago. If anything, the government will be able to negotiate mortgages as before the banks weren't, free up some capital there and I've heard of a lot of people saying they could even make money on the original $700B investment as the economy gets back to normal in the next year.
They did a good job refining the bill so that these head ceo's don't get huge compensations etc etc...the cost of not passing the bill would a lot higher than doing nothing.