Here's what the American people need to know: that the United States government is acting; we will continue to act to resolve this crisis and restore stability to our markets. We are a prosperous nation with immense resources and a wide range of tools at our disposal. We're using these tools aggressively "Fellow citizens: We can solve this crisis” and we will.

"Trouble is, fellow citizens aren't listening.

"After eight years of Bush ”years that saw the administration lie to go to war, ignore the balance of powers, spy on citizens without warrants, etc.” Americans simply don't trust this White House.

"It's bad timing.

"Just at a moment in history when the country needs a trustworthy leader, none is around to boost its confidence.

"John Morton Blum, professor emeritus at Yale University who once had Bush in his classroom, said recently that his former pupil is a worse president than James Buchanan” the infamous 19th-century figure who fiddled while the South seceded.

"Over the course of Bush's eight-minute speech, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 84 points. Ten minutes later, it was down another 170. For the day it's down 290 (as of 12:25 pm).

"The only question now is which Bush administration debacle will go down in greater infamy: the ruination of the economy or the disastrous Iraq War.

"Rove legacy, indeed."

Ironically, there is a commonality and connection between E. F. Hutton and Dubya Bush: crime and an uncle.

"...in the 1980s, the conglomerate disintegrated due to corporate misconduct, mostly by the brokerage firm. The firm had knowingly engaged in money laundering for organized crime (the so-called "Pizza Connection" because money was sometimes delivered in pizza boxes, see External link) and other unlawful groups (including the "Iran-Contra Affair"). It was not until after the president of the brokerage firm, Scott Pierce (the brother of Barbara Bush, wife of the then-vice-president of the U.S.), entered his corporation's guilty plea to 2000 criminal counts of federal mail and wire fraud in 1985, that the Hutton conglomerate fell apart. The Firm was sold to Shearson Lehman/American Express, to form Shearson Lehman Hutton."

Unfortunately, impeachment was taken off the table.