Follow the Money...

This is the best explanation I've read explaining the "principled" stand that certain lawmakers are taking against the bailout (I agree with their stand, but for completely different reasons). Very interesting:

http://www.slate.com/id/2206525/

Commitment to free market principles? Not so fast, this is the same group of "fiscal conservatives" who backed large increases in both defense spending and non-defense discretionary spending over past 8 years. Conservatism via bankruptcy, is the real dynamic at play.

On this issue, like so many others that effect sustainability (e.g. the ethanol hoax, the bi-partisan commitment to the largess of the farm bill, and "clean" coal technology) all is illuminated if you follow the money trail and go back to their district.

As Tip O'Neil said, "all politics is local."