Capital

... doesn't come cheap. If I'm providing it, I want equity.

What Paulson and the Bushists may actually intend by offering Congress their poison pill of a bill: Either they get a $700 billion slush fund to bail out Republican businesses, or they pin the blame on Democrats for the whole deregulatory debacle because in this one week, the didn't act fast enough, meekly enough, nor deferentially enough.