SENATE VOTES TO HARM AMERICA --And, to probably little surprise in Washington, the Wall Street bailout bill passed.

The extortion worked. All that some of the banks, the stock market and the credit card companies had to do was . . .

 . . . hold up the automobile industry with the implicit threat against the rest of what remains of this country's manufacturing sector . . .

[Note of warning here: This is not the fault of America's automobile workers. The next media personality who tries to manufacture an argument against auto workers (as opposed to oil execs), a la the one they've already come up against people of modest means who tried to buy houses . . .]