Exactly. I'm used to the “c'mon now, calm down” angle. But not this. It's like you could hear what those two supporters were thinking: TRAITOR!! Wow!

Respectfully daveinboca and Apt604, could we please try to stay on topic? I know you were just responding to daveinboca, Apt604.

As far as the 2005 Fannie/Freddie legislation, are you aware of how Congress works? Barney Frank was in the minority until Jan. 2007 – and in the U.S. House, when you're in the minority, you don't block squat. Incidentally, if you check the Congressional Record, you'll find that he supported the bipartisan bill that emerged from committee, but voted against it because the Republican leadership slipped in language that pissed all over the First Amendment. The bill passed the House with 331 votes anyway, so no harm done by Barney Frank there. No harm done by Chris Dodd either, because the Republican Senate leadership never bothered moving the bill – and being in the minority, Dodd certainly couldn't have moved it himself.

Any “investigation” of Frank's & Dodd's role in blocking GSE reform can be easily opened & closed in about ten minutes by skimming through the Congressional Record. I suggest you try it.

First they stir up this hate, alienate everyone not a Hannity'ite nutcase. Then they meekly “backpeddle” as Silhouette says, and now risk alienating what's left of their voting base.

Second, their Veep nominee is found to have abused power in Alaska by a bipartisan committee.

What's important now is how they plan on losing in these last three weeks. Will they do it with grace, or will they keep stoking the fires of hate and ignorance?

If McCain wants to regain a portion of his honor, he needs to clearly repudiate the message of his campaign for the last couple of weeks. He needs to convince his supporters that Obama is not their enemy. He needs to stop running all of these ads connecting the word “terrorist” to “Obama.”

McCain's got a lot of work to do. Winning the election shouldn't be his top priority anymore, healing the damage he's done should be.

That's the biggest economic crime of the century to this date. And it's a scandal that Dodd & Frank, who blocked Bush's '05 initiative to investigate the massive fraud [with the help of many co-dependents both Repub and Dem], are the chief culprits, yet are sanctimoniously posing as investigators and blame Wall Street for buying into their crooked kickback scam.

They've incited violence. Plain and simple. They've broken the law in time of war and I'd like to see both him and Palin publicly admonished for de facto terrorist abetting.