The Feds can have my house for only 10% above appraisal, because I'm a victim of low interest variable rate mortgages

From the WSJ Afternoon report:

Sen. Hillary Clinton, aiming to pick up votes from the all-important Pennsylvania primary voters, proposed that, to ease the housing crisis, President Bush should appoint a summit of economic experts (e.g. Alan Greenspan) to determine if the government should buy up homes. The campaign for Sen. Clinton's rival, Sen. Barack Obama, said he proposed a similar measure.

Are we serious?

1. Alan Greenspan (I change plumbers when one busts my pipes)?
2. Buy, Actually B-U-Y, houses? The moral hazard is getting out of friggin' control.
3. If Hillary announced that she was going to jump off a cliff, would the campaign for Obama say that he was going to as well?