meltdown

Scapegoats aside, Sarah Binder fingers the two causes for the demise of the bailout bill the day before yesterday: incumbents' concerns about losing their seats and ideological hardliners in safe seats on the left

John McCain essentially had a meltdown this morning on "This Week" when asked about Sarah Palin's agreeing with Barack Obama's position on Pakistan, a posi

AP (Yahoo): FBI investigating companies at heart of meltdown

I know, I've been pretty slack lately. I'm going through another period of transition, and although I still don't have a whole blog post in my head, I just have to post something to get that picture of Sarah Palin off the top of the blog.

Finally, I have read something about the whole credit crisis, Wall Street meltdown, et al, that makes sense to me: This op-ed piece by Thomas Friedman.

Quote:

I’m traveling today so I’m taking the liberty of simply cutting and pasting the text of an email I got from my good friend Fred Thompson.  Actually, I’ve never met the man, it just sounds cool to say it like that since he emailed me personally and all.  FDT writes a regular column at TownHall and this was his from a day or so ago.

While the news outlets focus on McCain’s statement decrying the meltdown on Wall Street, we ask if they will mention that his own advisor is an architect of this same meltdown?

Hint, it has nothing to do with looking in the mirror.

In the words of the Jammie Wearing Fool: