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...yelling and screaming every day," says Chicago first baseman Derrek Lee, a Cub since 2004 (Piniella joined the team last season). "It's not really like that." McCarver, a longtime friend of Piniella's, has seen a new Lou too. "His transformation has been more than subtle," he says. Yes, he's still brutally honest with his players, but he's pulled back the histrionics. He's been ejected just twice this year. "When Lou hit 60, he finally matured," jokes Gillick...
...Wall Street bailout plan broke, coffee shops and courthouse-square cafés in the Lone Star State echoed with disgust for it. So great was the outrage that Chet Edwards - whom Speaker Nancy Pelosi once touted for Obama's Vice President - may be dogged by his yes vote on the campaign trail. Edwards, a popular Democratic incumbent in President George W. Bush's home district, was one of nine Representatives out of Texas' 32-person delegation to vote for the bill. (Even four of the five Texas Republicans whom Bush called personally voted against it.) Meanwhile, Democrat Lloyd Doggett...
...third group that "is in favor of doing anything because the situation is so dire. And his name is Bob." Inslee isn't being facetious: it is a group of one, a constituent named Bob, who avidly promotes the view. Inslee hopes to be able to vote yes on a revised bailout bill later this week, but only if it satisfies his concerns. "We'll see what's presented to us," he says. - By Eli Sanders / Seattle...
California "If I ask, Should we bail out Wall Street?, you won't get 1 in 50 of my constituents to say yes," says Pete Stark, the Democratic Congressman from the Fremont area. "They don't want their tax money to pay for this." And so he voted against the measure. "Fremont has one of the highest foreclosure rates in California, and unemployment is high. I think their feeling is, Why should you be bailing out Wall Street when we know people who can't afford junior college tuition? They see the Wall Street giants as extremely rich people very...
...Yes, John McCain leads Barack Obama by an average of 12 points in the most recent polls from his home state of Arizona...