Three Bears

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, left, Representative Barney Frank, center, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., and Senator Harry Reid, early Sunday.

I have one question.

How high is your confidence in these geniuses to solve this problem?

Weren't all four of them long in place while this madness was going on?

I have really reached the point where I find almost all politicians to be disgraceful fakes.

Officials said Congressional staff members would work to finalize the language of an agreement that would include pay limits for executives and require the government to do more to prevent foreclosures.

But yesterday a news report advised that there were many "executives" who had been on Wall Street for less than a year who would walk away from the fire with millions in compensation.