Today was a bit surreal for me.  Not only did we have a crazy day on the financial markets as well as in the US Congress, but this all came together for me as I was in an airplane. 

Kind of a weird collision of CSPAN and CNBC occurring as I watched the events of the day live via Direct TV on the screen in the seat in front of me while listening to the audio with my iPod earphones.  I believe it is a historic moment when the floor of the NYSE is focused on the outcome of a US House of Representatives' vote and CNBC is bringing both to me via split screen.  I did a bit of digging to see if I could find a screen shot of this around and whether this was the first time the vote feed was featured on the business network, but was unsuccessful in my search however I did come up with this:

I'm not sure where things are headed from here other than that we all need to calm down a bit and understand that this is a serious time but not the end of times. 

The drama of the day was enough to leave your head spinning but as I sat there being shuttled to my destination watching the markets mostly fall…and fall a bit further as the vote tally was totaled, I couldn't help but think how absurd it was that Wall Street had pinned its hopes on Congress and how counter this is to who we are as a country.