Of all the far-right, consistently wrong, partisan whackjobs on Fox News, I think Bill O'Reilly is probably the least objectionable. I don't watch him often, but I catch his show when someone I like is on, and just mute the crazy parts. And it's because I like O'Reilly (relative to the rest of them) I just have to say, -- Bill, you do not want to make the Senator mad.

Seriously, it's good advice. I've seen this before in hearings. I don't believe I've ever heard him yell at anyone like he did O'Reilly last night, but I've seen the Senator plenty angry, and when he's this pissed off, you're not going to win the argument. So, Bill, for future reference, you might want to recall last night's interview and just get out of his way.

Really, how disingenuous is it for Fox News, the media arm of the Republican party, to lecture non-partisanship to someone whose wife was recently attacked on the floor of the Senate by a flat-earth, Republican science denier? Fox must have a lightening rod on top of that building they're in, or Bill-O would have been stricken on the spot for using the word 'partisan' without the aid of a mirror. What's even more absurd, he had Karl Rove, the most contemptuous, tendentious hack ever to show his puffy face on TV on his show just before the Senator's interview, whining about Nancy Pelosi for telling the truth about George Bush's failed economic policies. Karl Rove complaining about partisanship is a bit like Richard Simmons complaining about exercise. It's just too weird.

So, the bailout failed in the House yesterday, and O'Reilly claims it's the fault of the 95 Dems who voted against it and Nancy Pelosi for being 'mean' (honest), and not the 133 Republicans who also voted against it and John McCain for being ineffectual (a disaster).

Seriously. The reason the Republican leadership gave for voting against the bill was that Nancy was MEAN. She blamed President Bush's policies for the economic disaster we're facing, and, according to Rep. Boehner, that was really, really not very nice. He didn't say it wasn't true. Everything she said was. They just didn't like her saying it.

Waaaaaaahhh! Nancy was mean so we screwed over the American people!

Earlier in the day, after bragging about bringing House Republicans to the table to support the bailout, John McCain was forced to eat his words as the measure failed, sending the market into a historic free-fall. Of course, he blamed everyone but himself, but that's what compulsive people do. Pretty sure I don't want that guy gambling with my 401K. Bad enough he just helped delay my retirement party by a couple years, and I was lucky. I only lost 5% of my life savings yesterday. Nice work, Sen. McCain. Good thing you swooped into 'Warshington' to bring all those House Republicans to the table to save the economy. I'll remember that when I'm 70 and bagging groceries at the supermarket.

After bragging today about his role in shaping the economic bailout package, Sen. John McCain made no statement to the press after the defeat of the bill, in part at the hands of House Republicans.

Instead, McCain boarded his Straight Talk Air charter plane, where he sat in front, separated from reporters by a brown curtain, without making a comment on the bill's defeat.

Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA), in a follow-up press conference. offered to assuage the hurt Republican feelings.