Honest question: why can't this "$700 Billion bailout" wait until after Nov 4th?

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If these privateers can wait on their thumbs for a week or so, as they're showing that they sure as hell can - in fact, enjoying every second of it - why can't they wait on their thumbs 'till after the Nov election, when there'll be political stability?

Why should the Dems "cave" on +$700 Billion - kinda popped outa the air like this, a month before the election?

REALLY. people. Why shouldn't Dems push for a stay on this decision? Why should the Dems accept a timetable that, from the start, has been absurd in every way - and beyond absurd given the scope of this thing Bush/Cheney are trying to ram down the US's collective throat.

If I were directing the Dems, in the most general of ways, I'd direct the movement toward pausing, taking a second look, making this an election issue, and refusing to cave.