> McCain is a genius, he knows how to run a campaign.
I don’t know.
Looks like he’s chickening out, to me.
Voting with the majority (the bailout will pass above any and all objections) does not look too brave.
No one knows for sure how he is going to vote yet. But Drudge just put up on his website that a meeting this AM among House Republicans showed only 4 of them intended to vote for the bailout. Considering Bush will be lucky to get half the Democrats, passage looks more and more doubtful by the minute.
Also, McCain supports several changes to this proposal that the Bush administration is very much against. Among other things, he wants language effectively capping pay at $500K for any executive of a firm that takes advantage of the bailout. Paulson will be lucky to be able to buy up $200 bil. of this stuff under those terms.