IS THE SENATE PREPARING TO DAMAGE AMERICA? -- Hard to decipher from coverage by the corporate media outlets, of course, since they are all (even MSNBC) in the tank for the bailout--

but the bailout bill is represented as poised for passage by the U.S. Senate.

If so, this will be a sad day for the United States.

Money is not everything. Nobody thinks it is. But fiscal probity, like physical safety, is one of the major components in our bulwarks to identity.