If the Republicans don't grow a spine and start demanding televised congressional hearings to get the truth out about how the Democrats failure with Fannie & Freddie are the major cause behind this, they deserve to lose the election. Every time any Republican congressman or Senator is interviewed, the first words out their mouths should be "Where are the hearings? We need to get to the bottom of this, why haven't the Democrats called hearings on this yet?" McCain has to be as agressive as possible on this as well. What are they all so scared of?????

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses
over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its
speaker a raving lunatic." - Dresden James

I saw the jerk's diatribe against the evil Republicans. He said the Republicans failed to deliver their half of the votes. You know, even Steven. Not once in the segment I saw did he mention the 94 nay democrat votes. To his credit for accuracy he said "the republicans acted like the opposition party." My God! Wow. He was also accurate in one other regard. He predicted tomorrow the media "will blame the Republicans and John McCain for this failure." My dog could've consulted his crystal ball and predicted that.

Perhaps you could post a link to the roll call for this vote? I would, but I am at work and far too lazy. :>)

"This liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

How typical of Matthews. 

The net nays, dems cancelled out by rep yeas, was almost thirty votes.

For Pelosi to blame this on the republicans is absurd.  She killed it with her big mouth on the floor this morning. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

Barack Obama just a moment ago made clear he wants this bill to pass: his party voted for it overwhelmingly.

Well what do expect?  Liberals think that Bill Clinton's winning with 47% of the vote was a "mandate."

While you all at NB are sitting around pointing fingers at somebody or anybody, I have a number for you $800 billion. 

The above number is $100 billion more than the bail out may cost all of
us.  That is what Americans, you know us fat cats, lost in the stock
market in a single day - today.

I presume that you all at NB make money from the advertisements that
you sell on this web site.  If you look at Google's stock today, that's
how they make a living as well, you will see what your future receipts
are going to look like as reflected in their stock price.

At some point, you all at NB have to educate your readership.  The
Congress needs encouragement to act not who did what to whom and when. 
Unlike the great depression, where they didn't act until there was
great harm on main street, we have a chance to get ahead of this.

Time is of the essence.  I urge all of you on this web site to
write, e-mail, or call your representatives and tell them to get behind
this bail out and get it passed.

Oh, by the way, even if this passes, we still have a recession to
get through.  Yeah, a recession, but not a depression.  There's a
difference.   

Let's get real.  Even the most basic reporting class most certainly emphasizes using language that accurately reflects the facts of the story you are reporting.  Even a 5th grader would know that "60%" and "overwhelming" do not belong together.  His age is not that advanced, but something could be setting in or there could be some aspect of his lifestyle that clouds his journalistic judgment.  It really doesn't matter why, it only matters that NBC is a major news network and they need reporters and analysts with the competence to work at the highest of standards.  Let him go, now.

These are all great points.  So, get Gov. Palin ready to castigate Sen. Biden and the Democrats on Thursday night.  This is the perfect opportunity to destroy them in front of the American public.