They can’t say they weren’t warned. McCain authored legislation to make it happen. Democrats blocked it. McCain and 19 other Senators authored a letter very clearly articulating the risk and the path to resolving it. Democrats sat on their hands.

“It is vitally important that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure that these institutions benefit from strong and independent regulatory supervision, operate in a safe and sound manner, and are primarily focused on their statutory mission. More importantly, Congress must ensure that the American taxpayer is protected in the event either GSE should fail.”

One has to wonder whether it was the fact that Democrats were taking millions from Fannie and Freddie, or whether it was the fact that Democrats created, Democrats operated and Democrats mis-managed Fannie and Freddie as the reason why Democrats blocked regulatory reform to head off this crisis.

Democrats, always fucking everything up. Democrats always blaming someone else for their irresponsibility.

Fucking stupid, worthless, fat, lazy, crooked DEMOCRATS.

The very first lesson from The Bible is that people cheat; why you GOPers want to insist on de-regulation when from mankind’s very beginning mankind cheated, only goes to show the hypocrisy of conservatism.

The Republicans need to run a fiscal conservitive next time around.

A vote for Barkley is a vote for Franken… A complete nightmare and MN will be a laughingstock for the 2nd time in my relatively short life. The Body and then Stuart Smalley??? What’s next? Triumph the Insult Dog for Pres???

Nightmare. Norm, pull it together!

Sadly, the bag of leaves would have more substance and better judgment than Al Franken.

Norm lost my vote last week when he voted for that goddam bailout bill. It’s clear he lacks the judgment to have the privilege of representing me anywhere.

Al Franken is a socialist pile of crap, who left Minnesota 30 years ago and who has spent the last 15 years peddling hate.

No self-respecting Minnesotan can vote for Al Franken. Nobody who votes for that ass is voting for the man, they’re casting a blind, stupid vote the party that has stood more often with tyrants and communists than it has with it’s own country.

Dean Barkley, for all his flaws, gets my vote. There’s nothing Norm can do to win me back.

What Norm Coleman has done was set fire to his own campaign for re-election by going negative. He couldn’t defend his own record.

Nor could Norm set fire to Al’s camapign, for Al was getting out all the crap about Norm’s record.

Senator Al Franken. Has a nice ring to it.

Are you really gonna play that stupid “____ didn’t pay workers comp!” v. “yeah, but ____ didn’t pay workers comp, either!!” Game?

I’m guessing you want to, because it’s a stupid (cheney)in’ game, which matches your (lack of) mentality.

When your party gets stomped in November, remember it’s jerks like you that they’re rejecting, too.

He’s right about the rich (like himself) not paying taxes he got caught during his run for the next wellstone wannebe tax cheat, ya see wellstone himself didn’t pay workers comp.

Once again showing how libtards are the party of “do as I say not as I do”

They’re still running attack ads.

Hard to believe, isn’t it? republiCons saying one thing, and doing something different….

Al Franken doesn’t know how to pay taxes, he has no right to vote in the US Senate.

Time for you to fold the personal attack tent, and start writing about issues that our elected officials will need to deal with.

If you do, you’ll have more relevance, not less. If you don’t, it will reflect back on the candidates you claim to support.

Just like Al Franken can’t just not pay his taxes for 5 years, and then pay them now, bailout Normy can’t air these ads for 6 months and pull out with 3 weeks to go.

Oh, yeah, now I remember. Coleman is apparently adopting Truman’s adage as a new campaign strategy.

“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

And that’s why hard-core rightwingers don’t trust Norm; they know he’s just a RINO they simply can’t trust.

Oh, and his poll numbers sinking like a rock.

But, I guess he’s all okay now that after a year of running personal attacks, he suddenly swore it off. Guess what, this is going to backfire as well once the third parties ramp up the personal attacks and people laugh at the fact that Coleman, who started all of this mess, suddenly is trying to act above it.

Fortunately for all Minnesotans, it isn’t working for Paulsen either.

What a wuss. He made this mess, he can wallow in it.

BTW – any idea who’s name is on ol’ Smokescreen’s utility bill, at the D.C. digs?

Hmmmm, does that mean we can start calling him Chief Coleman *laughing*