Fed's $85 Billion Loan Rescues Insurer  —  By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and MARY WILLIAMS WALSH  —  WASHINGTON — Fearing a financial crisis worldwide, the Federal Reserve reversed course on Tuesday and agreed to an $85 billion bailout that would give the government control …

Fiorina's comment called ‘Biden-like’  —  (CNN) — Top McCain-Palin official Carly Fiorina is facing criticism from some within the campaign for a day of what they call “very Biden-like” comments, after the former Hewlett-Packard CEO told two separate interviewers that neither member …

Sebelius: Say, did you know Republicans are racists?  Update: AP or Miami Herald tries cleaning up Sebelius' comments  —  Hmmm.  Didn't Barack Obama just get done scolding John McCain over “dishonorable” attacks?  Maybe he should save his criticisms for his surrogates, except that they're parroting The One in his own baseless smears.

Financial gloom doesn't halt glitzy Obama fundraiser  —  So what does Barack Obama do after a hard day of defending the common man during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression?  —  Throw a $28,500-a-head fundraising dinner, of course.  —  Followed by a $2,500 …

The Mortgage Debacle - Not Enough Blame To Share Some With The Democrats?  —  Nancy Pelosi somewhat implausibly insisted that Democrats are blameless in the current mortgage debacle: … Barack Obama blames Bush for slack oversight: … However, the record tells the opposite story …

And now this  —  From an e-mail sent overnight by Anchorage attorney Kevin Clarkson:

Prominent Clinton backer and DNC member to endorse McCain  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee's Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN.

McCain and Palin are laughing at the press — and it's the press' fault  —  Chris Matthews was steamed.  —  As John McCain's manufactured “lipstick on a pig” story was taking flight last week, Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball, kicked off the hour by teeing up the story.

For immediate release  —  The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds rate at 2 percent.  —  Strains in financial markets have increased significantly and labor markets have weakened further.  Economic growth appears to have slowed recently …

Obama Inflates Role in Creation of Stimulus Package  —  In Golden, Colo., today, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., took credit for the stimulus package that passed earlier this year.  —  “In January, I outlined a plan to help revive our faltering economy,” Obama said, “which formed the basis …

Historians say McCain camp not sleaziest  —  David Axelrod, Barack Obama's chief strategist, said Sunday that John McCain is running the “sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history.”  It was a line trotted out all weekend by various Obama staffers as part …

GOP group behind negative Obama poll  —  A Republican group is taking responsibility for a poll that has roiled the Jewish community by asking sharply negative questions about Senator Barack Obama.  —  The Republican Jewish Coalition, which is launching a campaign against Obama on behalf …

Laura Ingraham vs. David Brooks  —  From her daily e-blast:

THE STATE OF SARAH PALIN  —  The peculiar political landscape of the Vice-Presidential hopeful.  —  It rained a lot in Alaska this summer—even more than usual—and it was a cold summer, too.  The sun doesn't set on much of the state between mid-June and mid-July, but the weather …

Limbaugh: “Troopergate” investigation is “pure sexism,” but Palin “didn't bend over and let” Alaska politicians “have their way”  —  On the September 16 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, Rush Limbaugh said of the investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin's dismissal …