In the US we have a crazy game show called "Deal or no Deal". It's a game  where a contestant opens a series of 26 suitcases, each containing a sum of money ranging from 1 cent up to $1,000,000. First they choose one case to hold by them. Then they open the remaining cases one at a time by round. In round one they open 6 cases and stop. The "banker" then looks at what figures are left on the board and offers some amount of money to the contestant, trying to "purchase" the case they are holding. Once the offer is made, Howie Mandel, the emcee, asks "deal or no deal". They always say no deal the first time and move to round two where they open 5 cases, thereby eliminating 5 more figures. Then the next offer comes, and it keeps repeating until they either take an offer or lose most of what was offered and go home with very little. Without fail, the larger the offer is, the greedier the person becomes and yells "no deal" and slams the lid shut on the button he has to hit to accept a deal. Most of the time the person ends up losing (by far) the largest amount he was offered and goes home feeling like a fool. Washington appears to be playing a their own version of this game. The banker made an offer and Congress wants more. They want to open a few more suitcases because they "just know" their gonna win the REALLY big money. If they say no deal it could be a catastrophe in the making. They're getting real stupid real fast just like on the real show. They've already forgotten how they felt when Bernanke and Paulson explained to the Congressional leaders of both parties how dire the situation was. This isn't about tax cuts or bankruptcy law or anything else except....the immediate survival of the financial system. What happened last week made Bernanke and Paulson look like they had seen a ghost. Perhaps it was the ghost of Herbert Hoover. It was so serious that their initial plan was "give us the authority to spend 700 billion dollars NOW or we're all going to die". No oversight, no possible court challenges, don't ask us any questions, just give it to us NOW. They understand something Congress doesn't. If Congress yells "no deal", we may all get to find out just what that is. 
Stay tuned.