Posted on 09/26/2008 11:59:42 AM PDT by dlt
President Bush and Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain pleaded with GOP members of the House to end their party rebellion and quickly approve a Wall Street bailout plan.
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There is nothing in what McCain says in the article to justify them saying he approves Bush’s plan. The only one urging Republicans to approve the Bush plan in this article is Bush. ABC lies again and gullible FReepers fall for it. How often do you have to get bit in the a** by the Left Stream Media to understand they lie all the time and do what they can to sew confusion.
I have not seen any evidence that McCain supports the $700 billion bailout. Quite the contrary, actually. Read his statement from earlier.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M2MxNWZlZWQ2MDEwYzA4NjZkZGIwODllYWExODg2NDI=
Statement By McCain Campaign On Negotiations [Rich Lowry]
John McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign was made in the hopes that politics could be set aside to address our economic crisis.
In response, Americans saw a familiar spectacle in Washington. At a moment of crisis that threatened the economic security of American families, Washington played the blame game rather than work together to find a solution that would avert a collapse of financial markets without squandering hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ money to bailout bankers and brokers who bet their fortunes on unsafe lending practices.
Both parties in both houses of Congress and the administration needed to come together to find a solution that would deserve the trust of the American people. And while there were attempts to do that, much of yesterday was spent fighting over who would get the credit for a deal and who would get the blame for failure. There was no deal or offer yesterday that had a majority of support in Congress. There was no deal yesterday that included adequate protections for the taxpayers. It is not enough to cut deals behind closed doors and then try to force it on the rest of Congress — especially when it amounts to thousands of dollars for every American family.
The difference between Barack Obama and John McCain was apparent during the White House meeting yesterday where Barack Obama’s priority was political posturing in his opening monologue defending the package as it stands. John McCain listened to all sides so he could help focus the debate on finding a bipartisan resolution that is in the interest of taxpayers and homeowners. The Democratic interests stood together in opposition to an agreement that would accommodate additional taxpayer protections.
Senator McCain has spent the morning talking to members of the Administration, members of the Senate, and members of the House. He is optimistic that there has been significant progress toward a bipartisan agreement now that there is a framework for all parties to be represented in negotiations, including Representative Blunt as a designated negotiator for House Republicans. The McCain campaign is resuming all activities and the Senator will travel to the debate this afternoon. Following the debate, he will return to Washington to ensure that all voices and interests are represented in the final agreement, especially those of taxpayers and homeowners.
09/26 11:32 AM
McCain is a fool if he does. This is not being a maverick or talk straight express.
We need real leadership; not some idiot who would rather pretend that he is real.
There certainly are quite a few hysterical people on here buying into the Dem/press spin!
Personally, I would be fine if McCain did support President Bush’s plan but it seems strange to me how easily some conservatives are manipulated by ABC.
The total game plan is Bush = McCain so unless McCain assasinates President Bush, the media will always say that the two are chummy. McCain has made objections and distinctions to the President’s plan.
“This is a BOLD FACED LIE from ABC a Obama front group.
Lindsay Graham , a McCain spokesman would not be On FOX NEWS trashing the Bailout last night !
ABC News is playing US for fools.”
Along with dlt who CHANGED THE FRIGGEN title!
“Tapper is just recapping events.”
With a BS headline that has effectively freaked out a bunch of Freepers.
Oops, post #61 sew=sow. Sorry.
I am amused and disturbed by how easily some buy hook and sink any crap from the MSM.
Please dont start to peddle those LIES again.
Obama is a Marxist !
ABC and Jake are spinning the facts to sucker US.
No where is this report does it say Support the current Bill.
ABC knows many people just read HEADLINES only !
Word last night was that he was supporting the House Republicans. Honestly, I could see him going either way on this, just depending on what he thinks the best solution is. I wouldn’t put stock into anything anyone says about him until he speaks for himself.
Hopefully he will soon.
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I made a call to my Congressman over the lunch hour and told the staffer that I do NOT support the Bush-Paulson bailout, want him to support the Cantor plan, to work to keep ACORN from skimming 20% of the profits and, for good measure, to DRILL, DRILL, DRILL!! To bad we will lose him in January, likely to a RAT!
Just yesterday everybody was helalding McCains ability to compromise!
McCain should quit the race now before he embarrasses himself even worse by sticking around until election day.
Not to sound too cynical, but would the intent of this rumor be to bring a bounce back on the markets?
and quickly approve a Wall Street bailout plan.
We all want to see a "bailout".
This is McCain’s chance to put to rest once and for all that he is just another Bush. Vote against this garbage, and make the dems (0bama leading the way) pass it on a party line vote WITH Bush leading the way. I can see McCain’s campaign commercial now linking 0bama and Bush with this buyout no one likes.
Yes and it’s disconcerting. We’ve got Freepers hysterically posting lies as truth and some with vanities full of spin. Makes ya go “Hmmm”.
It was a TROLL at work twisting the facts !
DLT is a poster to watch !
Well, you already got part of your wish because the drilling ban was NOT renewed the other day.
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