The massive taxpayer-funded bailout of AIG isn't working.  Taxpayers are now being asked to fund a massive bailout of GM and Ford.  The Dow is down another 200+ points. In short, we remain in the most serious economic crisis in decades.

So what does California Senator Dianne Feinstein think is of the utmost importance right now?  Making it a federal crime to sell tickets on eBay.

That's right.  According to this article, Sen. Feinstein apparently thinks that people who may sell their Inauguration tickets on eBay or Craigslist need to be branded as criminals.

Never mind that some of those entrepreneurial souls may use the big bucks they could  make in a free and open market to oh, I don't know, actually pay their own mortgages or buy their own groceries for several months.  

No, we can't have that.  That’s what the government taxpayers are for!

No, these would-be federal criminals must be barred from participating in a free market with other people who are willing to pay a lot of money to watch Barack Obama take the oath of office on Jan. 20.

Because, as we all know, this election was a mandate to end the horrible scourge of ticket scalping. At last, our long national nightmare is over.