i agree with you 100% janis!  you had one senator vote against this (demint) and one vote for it (graham).  i met graham at our state convention in 2004 and that little midget came off like an effeminate, elitist jerk in my opinion.  i am sad to say both my senators voted for it.  i would never vote for tom harkin anyway, but chuck grassley lost my support forever.  at least my congressman steve king is standing on principle.  i can walk into his office here in town anytime and his staff is always friendly and always willing to talk about issues.  the first time i met him, he came up to me and another person as we were talking.  he stood there and listened, not interrupting.  imagine that, a politician who listens to what his constituents have to say!  what a remarkable concept!  as far as paulson goes, prison is too good for him.  mark my words, the course of this nation will change forever if this bill now passes in the house.  the sovereignty of the united states will take another massive hit by the globalists.  sadly, too many people dont care as long as they have a bmw in their driveway.

"if the american people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."     thomas jefferson

"it is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, i believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning"    henry ford

"who controls money controls the world"     henry kissinger

"give me control of a nations money supply, and i care not who makes its laws"   mayer rothschild

"the new world order will be built... an end run on national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault"     council on foreign relations journal 1974, page 558