Remember, it was Bush who sent the thugs to threaten Congress -- to do the brinkmanship diddy, big time.

Congress has not been knee-jerk in its response.

That is not just because of Pelosi and Reid's leadership. It has been because of Obama's.

The position the Dems now have Bush and the Republicans is better than any outcome we could have imagined two weeks ago.

A no vote tomorrow in the House, with the majority of no votes coming from Republicans would be devastating to not merely Bush, but McCain.

Pelosi is certainly skilled enough to have told the Dems that if the necessary number of Republican votes is not available then she will either not allow the vote or make it clear that she knows the Republicans do not support BUSH's 'bailout' and she is not going to urge her colleagues to save a failed administration's economic mis-management.

What happens when either no vote happens or the current version of the bill is defeated is only good for the Dems and Americans.

Congress will have to stay in session given the gravity of the situation - as brinks-man Paulson represented it.

Or, if in a day or two it becomes obvious it was brinkmanship but no moose, the Republicans get called out, less than a month before an election, as intentionally stoking fear and anxiety.

Bush painted his buddies in the House and Senate into a Pollock chaotic scene ... no one will want to attend the opening of that show.