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Congress, the unwilling authorizer of this bailout initially, may face some big challenges in overseeing it.

Who really caused the current financial crisis? Democrats and liberals blame the free market, deregulation, greed and President Bush.

Talkback News: Additional $35 billion for AIG... Oct 9th, 2008 - 01:46:02 ... And this is announced one day after we find out that AIG executives spent $400,000 of the first $85 billion in tax payer bailout ...

Gary Olsen's Oct. 1 letter about the Glass-Steagall Act requires a response to set the record straight ["Repeal of Glass-Steagall Act is what fueled the crisis"]. Glass-Steagall is the latest Barack Obama ...

Republicans decided that targeting Christopher Dodd and Frank - not terribly well known outside the Beltway -- might make for good campaign rhetoric.

By David Karki Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin more than held her own against Sen. Joe Biden Thursday night, putting to rest any further doubts about her ability to hang with the big boys.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

The Senator should take the witness stand. Former Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld was under oath Monday when he was grilled on Capitol Hill about his role in the current financial meltdown.

Who caused "the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression?" Powerline links to a video that answers this question with admirable clarity.

Mr. Salama's remarks of Oct. 2 strategically forget several important points. First, it was a Republican-controlled Congress during Clinton's term that created the mechanism for the surplus.

Last Sunday evening, Republican House Minority Leader John A. Boehner explained his considered opinion on the $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan: It's a "crap sandwich," he said, but he was going to eat it.

The fact is this was all started by Congress, the Reinvestment act and the fact that congress promised to change Mark to Market and then DIDN'T We need to kill the capital gaines tax for a year or so, but ...

This is the definition of irony: The Republicans may well lose the upcoming election because of a flawed policy promoted, encouraged and demanded by the Democrats.

AS THE financial crisis pushes the economy back to the top of voters' concerns, Barack Obama is starting to open up a clear lead over John McCain in the opinion polls.

Yaar, do you ever get the feeling that you may NOT know something? Why is it that Kaal does not know anything, Clifton does not get it and fallan is a chutia for not understanding? Have some humility.

The Times's Peter Baker, Julie Bosman, Kitty Bennett, Jackie Calmes, Michael Luo, Robert Pear, Andrew Revkin, Larry Rohter, Kevin Sack, David E. Sanger, Matthew L. Wald and Jeff Zeleny are examining the ...

I can't believe John McCain is losing to this guy. Barack Obama makes George McGovern look like Scoop Jackson, and yet he's way up in the polls, leading even in Florida.

Published: Monday, October 6, 2008 at 9:39 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 6, 2008 at 9:39 p.m. I studied the life of John McCain and reached the following conclusions.

REPUBLICAN and Democrat leaders have redoubled their efforts to find the extra 12 votes needed to pass the $US700 billion bail-out plan when it returns to the House of Representatives for a possible vote ...

It seems like only yesterday when Enron and Worldcom collapsed. Throughout these ordeals our national media labored long and hard to paint Worldcoma TMs Bernie Ebbers as the face of Capitalism Corrupted while ...