OK.  Enough of the smokescreen and verbal subterfuge.  This meme that all the Big 3 are asking for is a "bridge loan" is crap.

A bridge loan connects two events, and is required because of a timing mismatch between the two events.  Hence the name bridge, because it spans that time mismatch.

So exactly waht are the two events that this BAILOUT is bridging?  And what is the collateral that ensures repayment.

This is a business deal.  Let's take off the ideological blinders and treat it as such.  The first step is to answer the above two questions.