Tuesday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.

There are five weeks -- 35 days -- til Election day. It's closing in. Could this election get any wilder? Really.

There may have been many reasons for members of Congress to vote against the bailout package, but the line about Nancy Pelosi being mean was too much. That has to be the most ludicrous and puerile response ever from the GOP. Their petulance cost over one trillion dollars -- one expensive hissy fit.

Your president will address the nation at 7:45 8:45 a.m., which will surely calm the waters and restore sanity. He's so good at that, right?

Let's get started....