The Senate completed it’s actions intended to relieve the nation’s troubled financial systems on Wednesday. An amendment to a House bill added the bailout provisions and passed 74-25. The twenty five consisted of progressive Democrats and conservative republicans; the conservatives, on the whole, unhappy with any intervention in the markets and the progressives [...]

So McCain has run away from the first debate in the name of putting the country first. He’ll do so by going to Washington where as a Senator he’ll try to do something, no one’s quite sure what that is, but he’s convinced it’s worth the effort. While he’s in town he’ll be visiting with [...]