Russ McBee

Although I'm convinced some kind of large-scale federal intervention is necessary to correct the current economic crisis, the bill that was voted down yesterday was, in my opinion, fatally flawed. It did little to address the fundamental problem of escalating home foreclosures and plummeting house prices, mainly because it did nothing to modify ...

Following a speech in Missouri yesterday, President Bush engaged in an exceedingly rare question-and-answer session with employees of the company where he was speaking. Among other topics, he repeated his threadbare spin of ethanol as a viable fuel source: ''As you know, I'm a ethanol person,'' he said, explaining his belief that it can help ...

The professional obstructionists who constitute the GOP minority in the Senate have blocked a bill aimed at addressing part of the sub-prime mortgage crisis: The housing proposal includes billions of dollars for local communities to buy up subprime mortgages and a controversial rewrite of bankruptcy laws to allow judges to slash interest rates ...

The spineless Democratic leadership of Congress has outdone itself; Pelosi and Reid caved to the Bush White House twice in one day. On the proposed emergency stimulus package, House Dems caved to the White House and struck provisions which would have extended unemployment benefits and expanded the food stamps program. Of course, millionaires will ...