JERRY POURNELLE: “As I surmised, the bailout — good idea or poor — can’t be made to happen until Barney Frank and Senator Dodd are allowed to wet their beaks. . . . There isn’t a hell of a lot of leadership being shown here. The Senators who are running for office seem more bent on that than on being part of the Senate. Everyone seems agreed that something must be done, but that his or her team won’t get enough out of it, so we need more negotiations. That is probably not going to work. I sure hope something does before it’s too late and nothing will work.”