Unable to produce the votes necessary for passage of the $700 billion bailout, House Republicans took to the microphones this afternoon to pin blame on Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  Several Republican aides said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had torpedoed any spirit of bipartisanship that surrounded the bill with her scathing speech near the close of the...

Late last night, House leaders announced that a deal had been struck between Congress and the White House to spend $700 billion to bail out Wall Street.  Barack Obama has given his “tentative” support for it.  By offering that support, just five weeks before the election, he’s missing an opportunity to stand up for the very working class...

I still think Bush’s urgent demand for action on the bailout is more like his post 9/11 push for the Patriot Act than his rush to war against Iraq. Either way, this is freakin...

Wow, who could have predicted that John McCain would attend tonight’s debate? I guess Captain America’s job is done in Washington, making him available to participate in a debate he’d previously agreed to, then backed out of.  From CNN: McCain said earlier this week he would not attend the debate if an agreement had not been reached on a $700...