It's easy to mumble vague sentiments about coming together or issue attacks at your rival partisans. But it will be more interesting to see who gets to (re-)build the new regulatory regimes and institutional structure of capitalism that is currently being handled by Treasury Secretary Paulson and the Federal Reserve. Congress will likely not sit on the sidelines for too long.
See also this WSJ article:
"Why does one person have the right to grant $85 billion in a bailout without the scrutiny and transparency the American people deserve?" asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), a reference to the loan the Fed gave AIG with the Treasury Department's blessing.
More in the NY Times which features supportive Democratic Senators.
