This is starting to remind me of a bank of port-o-potties. No matter who gets in and who comes out, the chits just pile up. Can't you just see a ferry-load of savants crowded around pushing for (HAR!) their preferred "can"-didates, hanging on their every promise, cheering them on insisting that the Dump-o-craps will stop all shumb-dit the Regurg-in-cans did, restore sound fecal ... that is, fiscal policy, and, best of all, give more to the little guy? Bailouts has just taken on a whole new meaning. Seriously (if I can manage it), this seamless "transition" to more of the same would, in any other nation, be stopped in its tracks. Either by coups, vote, Declaration of Independence from the "Pretender" government or by-gosh or beguile. Thanks for posting it. I dream of the day our government has to "go". ...