Barack Obama isn’t suspending anything. At least not now. The ball is now in the McCain court. He can go to Washington, appear in the meetings, go to the floor and let Obama go about his business on the trail. After a couple days of that it may become more clear how the debate posturing will turn out.

For now the question remains: if the Democrats make no deal and Obama remains in campaign mode, whom does that hurt?

And in case we didn’t have enough news the House Ethics Committee launched an investigation of Charlie Rangel. Apparently the burden of defending his malfeasance is one even the Congressional Democrats are unwilling to bear.