Help me out here. I'm pretty sure from reading the posts to this thread that it is really, really important to distinguish the good guys and the bad guys.

Are the republicans the bad guys because Bush just wants to protect his rich buddies? Or are they the good guys because they voted against the bill? Or does that make them the bad guys because the economy will collapse because they are so partisan?

Are the Democrats the good guys because a big bunch of them voted for the bill? Or are they the bad guys because the rest of them didn't? Fannie and Freddie were protected by Democrats weren't they? Or were the Republicans to blame because they controlled congress when they repealed Glass-Steagal? Or was that Clinton's fault 'cause he was president?

Or maybe I should like the left-wing Democrats who want more protection for victimized borrowers and disadvantaged groups impacted by the crisis? Or are they the problem because they could have supported a bill that would have saved us all?

Should I hate the Republicans for the "failed policies of the Bush administration?" Or should I hate the Democrats who can't actually do anything about anything because every time they talk in public they spend all their time talking about "the failed policies of the Bush administration?"

Help me out here. 'Cuz if you don't I'm liable to think that the whole congress is a bunch of politicians who don't deserve my money or my trust and that depending on this outfit to create anything useful to me is like expecting to find gold in the DC storm sewers.