(photo via Wonkette) You can’t make this up.  The 700 Club reports: In early August in her prayer time Cindy [Jacobs] heard the Lord say, “There will be no more business as usual.” Little did she know the scope of what this meant on a worldwide scale. God is on the move. She and many [...]

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Paging George Orwell. Remember the bailout package that John McCain suspended his campaign over and breathlessly flew to Washington to rescue? He now wants credit for “blowing that package up.” On that Acorn call, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis also credited McCain with “blowing … up” the first bailout package when he suspended his campaign [...]

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Hilarious bit by Keenan Thompson Thursday night.  Skip to the 4:31 mark in the video. The “Really?!/Oh, my God, are you serious?!” bit at the 2:12 mark is pretty funny, too. Speaking of which, it can’t be overstated how much NBC sucks for not letting people chop up their clips and post them on YouTube. Nobody wants [...]

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(Well, Warner, looks like you got your wish.) The Obama campaign is clearly not content to sit back and play defense while John McCain rehashes questions about Barack Obama’s past associations and Sarah Palin throws spitballs from the back of the class.  According to two exclusives this weekend by Politico’s Mike Allen, not only will Obama preemptively characterize all [...]

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A blogger over at Daily Kos with a background in economics gives the best explanation I’ve read so far of the financial crisis, in a post aptly titled “I’ll speak very slowly.”  Here’s the short of it: The body = U.S. economy Arms and legs = different non-essential sectors (i.e. IT, energy, etc.) The heart = financial [...]

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I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know enough about economics to have an expert opinion about whether or not the failure of today’s bailout bill to pass was a good thing, long-term.  But I think the largest single-day drop in the stock market speaks cleary to the short-term effect. Some kind of [...]

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The economic crisis and raw politics threatened to derail the democratic process as John McCain challenged Barack Obama to delay the November election and join forces to help Washington fix the financial mess. Obama rebuffed his GOP rival, saying the next president needs to “you know, get elected at some point.” Asked how long the election should [...]

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First, here’s why John McCain suspended his campaign today: ABC NEWS/WASH PO National: Obama 52, McCain 43 FOX NEWS National: Obama 45, McCain 39 MARIST Iowa: Obama 51, McCain 41 New Hampshire: Obama 51, McCain 45 Michigan: Obama 52, McCain 43 Ohio: Obama 47, McCain 45 Pennsylvania: Obama 49, McCain 44 FIVE THIRTY EIGHT McCain’s campaign is [...]

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If you receive this e-mail from someone named Henry Paulson asking you for $800 billion, delete it.

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I don’t know much about economics, but I do know who Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch are, and this news strikes me as, um, really bad.  If the media allows the McCain campaign to turn the national discussion of this week into something like lipstick and livestock, then America is in enormous trouble. This is where we’re at after eight [...]

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People keep saying that a bad economy favors Hillary Clinton because people associate her with the surplus years we enjoyed during her husband’s administration.  First of all, this may not be true, as we saw from yesterday’s exit polls in Louisiana: Among the 15 percent of voters who had been affected by [Hurricane Katrina] and said they had [...]

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