Saturday was a rough day in the Blogging Business.. Congressional Members and Staffers were on Overtime, and in Over-Drive. News organizations and financial news networks had ears or drinking glass pressed up against the doors of meeting rooms, Henry Paulson was getting all of the respect previously accorded to the Late Pat Paulson, and other than commenting on non-stories relating to who could spin the best seven second sound bite out of the Presidential Debate...it was for all practical purposes, the slowest news day of the entire election cycle.
No battleground states changed their tentative allegiances, and it didn’t matter what you had previously predicted to be the future of Wachovia, Downey Savings & Loan or National City Corporation. All of that would be changing, anyway...based upon what the reporters were hearing coming through the glasses they had pressed up against the walls of the Congress.
One of the few minor stories even worth any note, was why Johnny McNuisance felt the need to hang out in his Arlington, VA campaign office, calling Senators and Congressman, almost all of whom had suggested that perhaps he form his own Commission, and hold its inaugural meeting...somewhere else.
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