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From the McCain campaign tonight: To address our current financial crisis, John McCain suspended his campaign and returned to Washington, D.C., today to help build a bipartisan consensus for a proposal that would protect the American taxpayer. Despite today's news reports, there never existed a "deal," but merely a proposal offered by a small, select group of Members of Congress. As of right now, there exists only a series of principles, including greater oversight and measures to address CEO pay. However, these principles do not enjoy a consensus in Congress. At today's cabinet meeting, John McCain did not attack any...

Ohio's 2004 Presidential vote will be challenged as soon as next week in the state's Supreme Court, a coalition of public interest lawyers announced Friday.The Lawyers have sworn testimony from hundereds of people in hearings in Columbus and Cincinnati, and will use excerpts as well as documents obtained from county election officials to make a case that thousands of votes were incorrectly counted or not counted on Election Day.Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell has not yet certified the November 2nd vote. State election law says an election challenge must show that the wrong candidate has been declared the winner,...

I smell a rat. It has that distinctive and all-too-familiar odor of the species Republicanus floridius. We got a nasty bite from this pest four years ago and never quite recovered. Symptoms of a long-term infection are becoming distressingly apparent. The first sign of the rat was on election night. The jubilation of early exit polling had given way to rising anxiety as states fell one by one to the Red Tide. It was getting late in the smoky cellar of a Prague sports bar where a crowd of expats had gathered. We had been hoping to go home to...