Calling Eddie Murphy

The "777" we're seeing scroll across the bottom of the screen has nothing to do with news about Boeing's successful airliner. Instead, it represents the shocking hit the Dow took today following the failure of the bailout deal in Congress.

John McCain took credit for the legislation this morning. Will he also share the blame for its failure this afternoon?

It's one thing to be a maverick. It's another to be a lying, flip-flopping, out-of-his-league hothead whose utter lack of judgment has ruined his formerly respectable reputation.

The financial crisis continues to deepen. At this point, maybe we should send Wall Street gurus Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd to clean up the mess. They sure couldn't do any worse than the reckless, incompetent, and arrogant people who fed Wall Street's greed and got us into this crippling debacle.

Is America headed for the unthinkable? The chickens of the last eight years may be coming home to roost.