Instead of providing new ideas or honest answers to the economic downturn we are facing, Bush and Cheney offered empty rhetoric and blamed others for the recession.

The real answer is always found not in the heart but in the bank.

It's Orwellian. The pharmaceutical lobby writes the bill, passes it, and then they run ads thanking them for passing it.

People are looking to Congress for leadership and constructive action. Instead, the Republicans in Congress have served up inaction in a fast and furious blame game,

I'm getting pessimistic. I'm getting worried. We have about a week left -- at the most two weeks -- and we aren't to first base,

He is, and further than that, if he were subject to blackmail, it would have been before a lot of this stuff was publicly known,