McCain Gets Lots Done Before Debate
Well, John McCain ’suspended’ his campaign and headed back to Washington… to the apparent dismay of everyone involved in trying to fix the US economic clusterfuck.
My favorite quote is actually from Bush (can you believe it?) who referred to the economy as ‘this sucker’.
Paulson got on his knees in front of Pelosi, and everyone more or less acknowledged that it was House Republicans (plus the largely silent McCain) who were stuffing the whole thing up:
Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut and chairman of the Senate banking committee, denounced the session as “a rescue plan for John McCain,” and proclaimed it a waste of precious hours that could have been spent negotiating.
But a top aide to Mr. Boehner said it was Democrats who had done the political posturing. The aide, Kevin Smith, said Republicans revolted, in part, because they were chafing at what they saw as an attempt by Democrats to jam through an agreement on the bailout early Thursday and deny Mr. McCain an opportunity to participate in the agreement.
Oh, please. Shove a Boehner in it, will you? McCain is on none of the economic/financial committees - there was no reason for him to be there.
Senator McCain will have plenty of time to air his views on just about anything he pleases should he show up tomorrow night for the debate.
And I think he will. 75% of Americans think the debate and the campaigns should continue - so methinks he’d have to have a crystal ball and monster cojones to flake out tomorrow.
Speaking of… well whatever - how craptastic were the Palin interviews? Ish. They were still sort of amusing, but in that awkward way.
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September 26th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
apparently mccain will be on the phone today trying to get backing from the republicans who said no on the bail out. And since he’s trying to look ‘presidential’, his credibility as a changemaker (HA) is totally based on weather this move works. As I’ve said before, americans will take an amoral, downright evil head of state who constantly makes the wrong decisions but just not one who’s ineffective once those decisions have been made. So he’s going to look like a double failure if he doesn’t get the consensus and doesn’t show up to the debates. It’s tantamount to throwing the election if both those things happen.