Thankfully, our politicians passed the bailout.  They ignored the ignorant voters and those "free market" Republican ideologues in the House. Look at the results in just the first few days afterward.Within the first hours of the bailout passing, the Dow dropped about 300 points, or 3%.Over the weekend, "London, Frankfurt and Paris all tumbled more than six percent approaching the half-way mark while a 15-percent dive in Moscow forced a halt to Russian trading.""On Monday, Tokyo ended down 4.25 percent as Hong Kong's stock market shed 5.0 percent, Seoul tumbled 4.3 percent and Sydney lost 3.3 percent. Shanghai dived 5.23 percent and Mumbai was down 5.58 percent in late afternoon trade.""European stocks plummeted after Germany's fourth biggest bank had to be rescued over the weekend.""The Saudi stock market, the largest in the Arab world, shed 9.6 percent at the opening on Monday after a week-long holiday, and shares in other...(Read Full Post)