It only sounds like the lede to an article from The Onion. John McCain, plummeting in the polls, is suspending his campaign to work on the economy in Washington. The last thing "the economy" needs right now is McCain--forgetting which is the gas and which is the brake--driving headlong into it.
Man, he thinks the American people are even stupider than I do. Time will tell which of us is right.
2008-09-24
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Wow, what a joke! They must be running scared with their tail between their legs because of the latest WAPO poll. Like you said, another huge gamble with little chance of McCain coming out on top. Not a shred of integrity. Interesting to see how this plays out in press, but I can't see public opinion affected by this.
Sen. Chris Dodd was just on MSNBC and said he had yet to hear from McCain about the bailout, and was concerned about politicizing the process. He also said, it sounded more like a rescue plan for John McCain than for the economy. Hilarious. Looks like he read the memo.
I have a confession. I just watched Keith Olbermann for the first time, and I found him rather hilarious. Does that make me a liberal? How embarrassing!
Don't worry - finding Keith Olbermann entertaining gets old almost as fast as finding G Gordon Liddy's radio show ironically funny. Go ahead, I dare you: try to watch Keith and NOT think about how much foundation he's wearing. His powdery sculpted visage haunts me - and I don't even have HDTV.
FoxNews{R} reported just before Bush's Address{TM} that Obama rejects McCain's call to postpone the debate, citing that "It is going to be part of the President's job to deal with more than one thing at once."
To Which McCain responded, "YOU HAVE MY PILLS!"
NYT Reports: “Now that we are on the verge of making a deal, John McCain airdrops himself in to help us make a deal,” said Representative Barney Frank, of Massachusetts and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. “Frankly, we are going to have to interrupt a negotiating session tomorrow between Democrats and Republicans on a bill where I think we are getting pretty close to troop down to the White House for a photo op.”
Barney Frank is a national treasure. I just heard this quote from him on McCain's publicity stunt: "It's the longest Hail Mary in the history of passes--and Mary's."
That quote has been picked up by several different sources as the quote of the day.
I think it is really silly of McCain to claim he will have any kind of _positive_ influence on the proceedings. His highly publicized "bipartisan" attempts at solving legislative logjams have been DOA (Immigration) or largely ignored, even by himself (Campaign Finance). I can't imagine he has much pull behind closed doors within his caucus or across the aisle right now, and his committee appointments aren't very influential in these issues. I say get out of the way of those doing the work, and trust them to pull something together.
Anyway, he is RUNNING TO BE THE TOP EXECUTIVE OF THE COUNTRY, which means he'll have to juggle much more than the collapse of free markets on a daily basis in the job he is applying for. A strong showing in a debate on foreign relations right now seems like a sure-fire way to show he is capable of handling the pressures of the Presidency.
The rats really started jumping ship with this one. But there's one rat that's going to fall on McCain's sword so he doesn't have to. Lieberman was on the news this morning praising McCain for rolling up his sleeves and getting back to work in the Senate. Satire is dead. Soon all we'll have left will be puns.
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