USA Today: McCain's stunt screwed everything up

[Enrique]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-09-26-bailout-washington-friday_N.htm

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Financial markets had shot up midday Thursday when leading lawmakers from both parties announced they had reached an agreement in principle after nearly a week of talks on the Bush administration's plan aimed at restoring chaotic financial markets and easing an escalating credit crunch.

But the good feelings seemed to evaporate about the time a new player entered the fray: McCain, who a day earlier had dramatically announced he was suspending his presidential campaign to return to Washington to help end the financial crisis. Conservative House Republicans distanced themselves from the bipartisan agreement and promoted an alternative they said would put taxpayers' money at less risk.

[Curtland1015]

1. GOOD. Get the damn word out. Repigs stalling our entire economy...

...for political GAIN.

It's sick.

[iiibbb]

2. When given the opportunity to lead... All McCain said....

At one point, several minutes into the session, Obama said it was time to hear from McCain. According to a Republican who was there, “all he said was, ’I support the principles that House Republicans are fighting for.”’

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26884523/

[tekisui]

3. I hadn't seen that. Way to go Obama. Obama says, "Hey, gramps,

WTF are you doing here?"

[iiibbb]

8. Palin promised her adminstration wouldn't blink... one sentence counts as "blinking"

Whatever micron of hope I had left for McCain has just been squashed.


Even if he'd said "We shouldn't do the bailout" would've been better... actually probably would've scored him points in the national election...

Well... maybe it isn't blinking if your eyes have been shut the whole time.

[bdamomma]

4. House Republicans??? aye?

Boehner I do not trust him, are we being set up for a fall, Pelosi is saying the Dems will not support anything without Bi partisan support, are they trying to pass the buck on this to us?

[Enrique]

5. McCain's plan: "what Boehner said"

he suspended his campaign to say that?

[ErinBerin84]

6. lol

I love how McCain's memo was trying to say that Obama turned it into a shouting match! Uh, yeah, McCain. A reporter asked Barney Frank about it last night, and he said "There was no shouting match, some people just wanted to know what McCain THOUGHT about this!" What a loser! Way to go, Prof. Obama....he knew that McCain didn't do his homework.

[zbdent]

7. and now Repukes are scrambling to try to paint it as a win for McCain ...

saying that Dems rushed to make a statement, without having an "agreement" - I thought it was a tentative agreement ...

Of course, it was tentative ... to the point of actually saying something about it ... and then, the Repukes went to the complicit media and said "Hey, what the hell are they talking about? We didn't agree on a deal ... nudge nudge, wink wink ..."