No one contributed more to the policies behind the housing boom and bust, which led to the economic disaster we are now in, than Congressman Barney Frank...

Unlike the lockstep partisan voting in European parliamentary systems, here no member is expected to defy his conscience or commit political suicide by marching like lemmings into the sea...

The attacks on the Chamber of Commerce -- a moderately conservative, traditionally Republican group overwhelmingly composed of small businesses -- are unlikely to directly sway many votes...

In an election year, this is the time for an "October surprise"— some sensational, and usually irrelevant, revelation to distract the voters from serious issues. This year, there are October surprises from coast to coast...