Saturday, September 27, 2008
McCain Pulls Another 'Palin'
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John McCain's moment-to-moment presidential campaign continues to careen out of control.
We've all heard about "the chaos" from last Thursday, as McShame saw his cratering poll numbers, realized he was in deep shit, "suspendered" his campaign and swooped into D.C. to try to grab a bit of Bail-Out Pixie Dust.
What wasn't clear from all the reporting was exactly what went down, just who all the players were, and who did what when on that day and exactly what happened in that White House cabinet room meeting. The only thing that was clear was that somehow deep poop had become a bottomless pit o' woe.
FINALLY, Jonathan Weisman provides the program, rosters and play-by-play we've needed in today's WaPo:
How McCain Stirred a Simmering Pot
So, again we see McShame pandering to the bat-shit crazies of the GOP right, and deciding to align with the House Republicans who are enlightened enough to come up with the bright idea to have the banks who are about to go under pay big bucks into an FDIC-type fund, from which they could then take out loans to cover their bad debts.
Yes, you're right! How smart of you! You caught that, didn't you?
The banks would, in fact, be taking loans out on the exact funds they just put in.
Ow, you're right again!
Yes, why wouldn't the banks just hang on to the cash instead of taking what they have precious little of at the moment, give it to D.C., then ask for it back.
Another example of the GOP purists who'd be perfectly happy to sit atop the smoldering dung heap with Sarah Palin as their leader.
OK, so once he hits D.C. McShame hears what the GOP fringe leadership wants. McShame then wastes no time in picking that boneheaded side in order to pander to those stormtroops on the ground in the GOP wacky base. He obviously believes these folks are his only ticket to Pennsylvania Avenue.
McShame then bursts into a lunch meeting of his fellow Senate Republicans ("my friends") who are being briefed by their leadership on the deal that seems to have just been reached among Senate and House Dems, the White House and the Senate GOP.
His heartfelt salute to those men and women he's worked closely with for 26 years?"You all put me on the hook for $700 billion," he told his colleagues, according to an aide familiar with the lunch.
Hey, Country First at all times with Nasty John.
If he doesn't give a crap about his co-workers in the Senate, how exactly is he going to care about you or me? Just asking...
Read the whole article.
posted by Gotham 3:10 PM
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