They both interrupted their campaigns to vote for TARP on October 1, 2008, which became law on Friday, October 3, but did nothing to stop the panic.
On Monday, October 6 Jim Cramer came on the Today Show at 7am and told people who needed their money in the next five years to sell their stocks.
The S&P 500 fell from 1099 to 848 by October 27th, almost 23%, on its way to the March 9, 2009 closing low at 676 (there was an intraday low of 666 on March 6).
Over 500 bank failures marked the era fueled by these events, and more than 6 million lost their homes.
And no one went to jail.
Nothing good will come of ending the filibuster, either, not with the country this divided.
