It is ironic that the 80th congress sought term limits on the Presidency for fear a person could become too powerful and upset the balance of powers [3 branches]. Yet these same people in congress today see no problem with themselves serving in a powerful position for over 30+ years holding positions in charge of overseeing things like banking institutions...see the problem???

Term limits! Yes, that would be a great thing also...to end family brokered power in Washington is also an idea...like the Kennedy's, Clinton's, Bush's, etc...

deltafox5674 that is a good idea...it should all start with term limits to get rid of the stale power brokers that have parked in Washington for far too long.

My personal opinion is that we need to end the two party monopoly that we have had to endure for years, and develop a system that allows third and even fourth party candidates to exist. We need a grassroots revolution that starts on the local, moves to the state, and ends up in the federal presidential level...If you want to play the blame game, its been both Republicans and Democrats that have gotten us to this point of economic disaster, they were holding hands and skipping all the way here...Time for new parties help and take control...

Onelife2live, I know just how you are feeling. I'm an Indepedent, also, and feel the same way you do. It is so frustrating. Perhaps, it is time for term limits to eliminate career politicians.

...or as Dave Chapelle would say......... BYAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!

onelife2live: I feel your pain and I'm in the same boat. We're going from an extreme right winger to a potentially extreme left winger. Obama's pandering to the middle now, but his voting record is very liberal. Hillary, had she governed anything like her husband, would have been more moderate in my opinion. What we need is a fiscal conservative (like a Bill Clinton), because our spending had gotten out of control. Unfortunately, I'm not sure either candidate is going to fit that bill.

janesvillean: It wasn't just Fox that made fun of Dean, lets be a bit more truthful. Even sports radio was joking about that speech. I was being a bit sarcastic about Dean. He was one of the first successful online grass roots politicians and he is the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Actually, he was quite inspirational back in 2004. However, I don't think chairman is a job that suits him very well. I always felt the the Democrats put him there to calm the tide. In addition, I think at this point and having Obama in the mix now, one would have to be one heck of a political junky to spend a few hours listening to him.

Yeah but the solutions are not more taxes. The government has enough money. It is time they spend what they have wisely and live within their means like the rest of do. That is unless you are part of the mortgage crisis (buying more than you could afford); you know these people got this idea by watching government spend money they didn't have...monkey see monkey do.

I know FOX made it a big joke, but Democrats actually loved the scream. Dean fired up a lot of young people in his campaign, and has really revamped how the party organizes itself. A lot of the Dean back-office people went to work building the Obama "neighbor-to-neighbor" program that has allowed him to bypass public financing, because he has so many $10 and $20 supporters. That's all ultimately because Dean showed how it could be done.
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Democrats really don't claim to have a solution to all the world's problems. We (Democrats) do think we (the country) should stop getting in the way of the solutions.

I'm finding it tough to beleive anyone would be inspired by Howard Dean. Obama or Clinton, maybe, Dean... not unless you have a scream.

I'm an independent and think that both parties are deaf. can they not hear us?

After completing an extensive study of the material submitted on this site....the Republicans write 75% lengthier entries, but say 85% less.

Dean is a nut case..yehawww...

That is right. For you Bush-bashers, if the President is responsible for gas prices, then Clinton was responsible for the mortgage crisis with the revisement of the Community Reinvestment Act which forced creditors to give loans with low interest to subprime and low income individuals which were then packaged and picked up by Bear and Stearns. Republicans are about earning your money the hard way, which is working, and then keeping it yourself and not giving it to your lazy neighbors, so you can afford to buy your house with a large down payment and with in your means.

Well, we have a choice in this election....ha-ha-ha. Obama reminds me of every salesman who wants to sell me something I don't want and tells me it can do things it was never meant to do, i.e. car salesmen, expensive electronics, etc. McCain is cautious. He's too honest to promise pie in the sky, knowing that delivery is dependent on the House and Senate votes. In simplistic terms, the problems appear to have originated because of the Democrats tinkering with the Community Reinvestment Act, Fannie and Freddie, forcing lending to those who were not able to afford homes, had no Social Security Numbers or phony ones, and no bank accounts or checking accounts. It is only conceivable that the Democrats would want another agency to oversee loans in the future, however, they need our money to bail them out. No wonder the Republicans are balking.

The blame on the Republican side is that businesses are leaving the US in record numbers taking along the very jobs we need to sustain our communities. Yes, even GM is building in foreign countries. When the Republicans (Regan) busted the unions (the first being the Air Controllers), the white collar people turned their heads. Now, the white collared people are losing jobs as they are outsourced to foreign countries and we have finally come to a place where the shuffling of credit instruments is no longer bolstering the economy. We have been purchasing oil from the Middle East and American dollars go to the Middle East. We purchase cars from Japan and Korea and the American Dollars go to those countries. We purchase clothing from China and India and the American Dollars go to those countries. When is the last time you purchased something made in America by Americans? Not recently, I'm sure, but even those dollars probably went into an off shore account. In the back door, we are allowing people to settle here, illegally, who cannot contribute to the economy and will not for at least a generation....another drain on our economy. Thank goodness, this is an election year or our voices wouldn't have been influenced the vote on the bail out.

In the article it says the girls were Sophomores. Well if I'm not mistaken a Sophomore would be about 15-16 years old. So, they can't vote anyway. So, Mr. Dean can fire up high school students that can't even vote yet. I guess Howard has a plan in place so these high school kids can register to vote just like the plan the have to get homeless people to vote if they give them smokes.

I have a friend that recently lost his job and his wife died a few years ago in a car wreak. He is getting badger care until he gets back on his feet again. Everyone knows that badger care is Wisconsin's health insurance programs for people who need it. Well, it's socialized medicine. The same thing that the democrats want for this whole country to have. Back to my point my friend has two younger children that needed some dental work done. He went to all the dentists that he could find in the phone book and nobody wanted to accept him because he had badger care. One dentist said he can't accept the badger care patients because the state doesn't pay the dentist enough money to even cover the procedure. He looses money with a badger care patient. Anyway he did end up finding a dentist. He also has had to wait for the state to do a procedure on the child. I guess the state has their own rules for doing a procedure. I don't think this is how I want my medical choices to be made. He can't wait until he gets working again and able to get off of this program.

The democrats have all the answers. The will fix everything. I can't wait to see what they come up with to fix all the Worlds problems. You all better hope they come through cause they sure can talk. Good luck.

Wow. Take political advice from somebody who can't even spell the name of the presidential candidates, and you get what you pay for.

Yeah right, "We'll need a lot of businesses in Janesville when GM closes". Question is, what business would want to come to Wisconsin with the high taxes on business in this state? According to the Dems, business is EVIL. They make too much money and don't give it away to those who don't have it and won't work for it. Those evil business people!
We are all Americans and it seems to me that the DEMS/OBAMMA are doing all they can to DIVIDE the country. Rich vs poor. Big business vs the "working class". Blacks vs white. Young vs Old. Men vs women. Libs vs conservatives. Where does it end??? We need a LEADER, not someone who divides. Wake up people, because with OBAMMA taxes will be higher, government will be bigger, your paycheck will be smaller, it will take forever to get to see a doctor, our military will be told to be 'nice', and all the dictators and socialists in this world will love us when we work harder and send more of OUR money to them. OBAMMA will be a DISASTER for this country. Consider this.... ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS. Remember what OBAMMA and the DEMS say they are going to do, and then watch and see what really happens.

The bailout will affect all of us because, if these large corporate banks go under, the ability to get lines of credit, home loans, car loans, business loans will become much more difficult. It's easy to say "let the banks go under", since they were the ones who got themselves into this in the first place; however, it's not just the greedy administrators that will be affected by them failing. These are the bank clearinghouses where "mom and pop" and family businesses get their loans and lines of credit to keep their businesses working. Hence, the concern for oversight and regulation - who's to say that the monies would get used to shore up the banks instead of making golden parachutes for the big CEOs? We may not want to bail out Wall Street but it's got to be done - this is where the "rest of us" get our money, too.

Dean offers hope? Well put hope in one hand and crap in the other and see which fills up first. Politicians promise the world but rarely deliver. Hope and success begins inside every person, it does not take some politician to tell you that there is hope.

Could someone please explain the consequences if the bailout isn't passed? Like you, biggirl, I'm hesitant to support this bailout, but am not sure what the consequences would be if something isn't done.

If this Wall Street bail-out is passed, nothing will be done for Janesville or for any other part of the United States (well, except for the fat cats on Wall Street). Our already huge debt will be astronomical, and they will start telling us that we need to do some drastic reform on Social Security. I wish Congress -- both Democrats and Republicans -- would listen to the people and vote this turkey down.