According to "Press Gaggle Via Conference Call with Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto on the Economy" (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/09/20080923-6.html), "some of the (whitehouse) policy staff have had months to think about what a program like this would be like and how it would work."

So, two months ago, Bush was telling us that the economy was stable, but some of his policy staff were working on this bailout plan. Hmmmm...