Jim (cont'd):    ...and tell him to repeal everything that Chris Cox has done to favor the short sellers over you, regular hard-working people who are bent on destroying stocks, and just want to use stocks to augment your savings, retire, and help pay for school...

Now, the Street rejoiced today about the appointment of Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary... Look, it's good and bad news. It's good that we got the position resolved. We had to get that started. But I felt bad, because he was a key architect of some of the worst things that went wrong. Again, I'm open-minded... I'm willing to see whether Geithner was simply tainted by Bernanke and Paulson's thinking... like Cramer-fave, Lincoln, I am magnanimous in defeat...

But there is no excuse for Cox's behavior, and he must be broomed immediately!...

The Bottom Line!:    You want order restored?... The markets to work again?... An end to the endless selling of fear?... Then bring back the rules we put in place to avoid another great crash. The Uptick Rule wasn't broke, but the SEC fixed it, and put the fix in for the shorts... It's time to give the longs back a level playing field, and stop the rigging of the market by the shorts, and bring capitalism, not capital destruction, back to our markets.