If you’re tired of watching the stock market plunge, how about some poll numbers? Pollster.com debuted a suite of sweet charting tools today, just in time for your faith in democracy to crumble! Yay! You can play with a number of factors, including choosing to exclude certain kinds of polls (internet, automated) or to make [...]
Oh, please. So the House Republicans say that they were willing to let the credit markets slide into the abyss because Nancy Pelosi hurt their feelings? UPDATE: Jim Poniewozik suggests by email that it’s time for Sarah Palin to suspend her campaign.
Republican House Leaders John Boehner and Roy Blunt say they would have had about 12 more votes if Pelosi had not said the following from the floor. (They say they will try again. “I don’t know that we know the path forward at this point,” said Boehner. “We need everyone to calm down and relax [...]
There’s real drama on the House floor right now. The bailout bill is going down. All time has expired, and the vote is 205-228 against passage. the Dow is down about 500 points. If only we could see the arm twisting that is going on in the back of the House Chamber… UPDATE: At 1:57 [...]
Bill Kristol has a hilarious column in today’s Times. He suggests that McCain is losing, but can “surge to victory,” if he gets his act together and gets…mean? Kristol takes a few flicks at policy. Maybe we should expand FDIC insurance. Ok, deal. But he actually offers only two suggestions–and they are doozies: –Unleash Palin: [...]
Here’s the latest from a looong weekend of talks. The bill is expected to pass the House today and could pass the Senate as well, though they’re racing against the Jewish Holidays, which start at sundown. If they don’t make it, final passage will likely come Wednesday. The House vote will be a bit of [...]
Michael Grunwald has this look back at what may be remembered as a pivotal week in this presidential campaign.
