they were hiding the REAL stuff. They are going to have to increase the Debt Ceiling regardless. The FED simply could not bail out its member banks because it COULD NOT PRINT any more money. If it could have it would have. Here is the quote.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, who worked on the deal during the weekend but ended up voting against it, said the bill asked too much of taxpayers.
"You're talking about $700 billion, a $250 billion blank check at this point for [Paulson]," she said. "But then, on top of that, when you read the bill, there was an increase in the federal debt limit to $11.3 trillion. Now, that is all taxpayer cost."