Posted on 09/26/2008 2:38:53 PM PDT by GVnana
Statement By McCain Campaign On Negotiations
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.
We voted these Bozos into office.
Without them, there would be no mess.
Without us, there would be no them.
I saw a comment on another thread that asked why should RENTERS pay for a house that some unqualified buyers “bought” but couldn’t afford. And now the RENTERS, in essence, are asked to bail out these “homeowners”. I thought that was a good question.
After reading the posts, it seems to me dumb that we have a Senator making statements that appear appropriate, yet we criticize him. Are we so beyond reason that we can’t take statements for what they are?
There can be only one answer. Republican functionaries still believe that the msm provides maximum exposure to the American public, and that exposure is worth the risk of a misstep or gaffe. This is obsolete thinking, with the media being no more than a 'rat echo chamber. It may have made sense a generation ago when there was still a vestige of integrity in some of the media at least. But those days are long gone and we all may pay a dear price for the republicans' failure of discernment.
I believe there’s something most continue to fail to see. America votes for the one that looks Presidential. Nothing about BO looks Presidential. His umming and errring tonight will further drive home his lack of...everything.
BO does NOT deserve to be within a mile of that stage tonight with McCain much less on it. He’ll show America that he’s nothing more than a joke without his beloved teleprompter.
Sickening to see pictures of BO at a table with Bush, McCain and equally sickening to see Pelosi and Reid next to the POTUS when both should be tried for treason.
A man who would blindly give away 700 billion tax dollars to criminally minded jerkoffs would do just about any damned thing. Right now I am so happy to see McCain stiff Bush and his asshole cronies, and work with the House republicans to devise a sane measure.
“saw a comment on another thread that asked why should RENTERS pay for a house that some unqualified buyers “bought” but couldn’t afford. And now the RENTERS, in essence, are asked to bail out these “homeowners”. I thought that was a good question.”
The renters are voluntarily renting for the price asked, right? They have no beef.
I swear Pres. Bush is trying to sabatoge the McCain campaign.
How else to explain the White House inviting Obama the meeting, knowing that Obama would offer less than nothing toward a solution.
The best thing to do with an empty suit like Obama is just ignore him. Pretend he doesn't exist, because in the world of ideas, Obama really doesn't exist.
I hate to admit it, but Bush really IS stupid sometimes.
Every American will pay a price for congress's stupid social engineering of our economy.
BTW, where ARE all the smoking nazi’s when it comes to Obama?
He’s admitted he never quit and broke his promise to do so at the onset of his campaign.
If it were a republican, the lefties would be on him like white on rice for his bad habit. If the media thought Todd Palin took a chew of tobacco 20 years ago they’d be reporting that for a month.
I was only speaking to the perceptions of McCain’s moves by the mushy middle. You are speaking to the reality of what is about to happen.
I think the American public is primed to the fact that pain is coming, but nobody knows what form it will take. So, who is offering leadership to try to spread the pain most equitably? That’s where the trust question comes in.
BTW. Has anyone else noticed that Obama was suddenly sporting grayed hair at his temples yesterday?
And we have a definition of equitable pain - the tax code. It isn't perfect but it is what passes for societal consensus on fair, at any given moment.
Smashing the financial system isn't going to benefit anyone, full stop.
As for how people will react, judging from people around here, so many are deep in denial they will demand that everyone else be boiled in oil if their little toe hurts, and demand that their tribunes make the other immoral bastards pay everything. Since that is economic lunacy and physically impossible, they will be disappointed.
good, now they need to shout it out to drown out harry, nancy, obami........
If McCain tries to appear above the fray and make appeals to “bipartisanship”, particularly during the debate, he is going to lose in a landslide. Time is running out. If he doesn’t call Obama the shyster that he is and run against the Democrats and their record of deceit, Obama will be our next president, and the country will far be worse off for it. McCain cannot depend upon spontaneity and empty gestures to turn the race around any more. He has lost ground over the past few days because he has all but abandoned the field, and so he has to make up for lost time NOW. This isn’t a favorable environment for any Republican or RINO, but plenty of people were predicting that the economy would go south quickly at the end of the year, and we all know this will get worse. But if any of you here think that having both Obama and the current Democrat leadership in power is very dangerous to the country, then you will agree that we can’t afford to lose this election; this is not a poker game between buddies or a popularity contest. I just hope that McCain, despite his imperfections, understands that. I’m not convinced that he does.
i hear you... some people cannot be encouraging nor encouragad about anything... "but, but, he used the word bipartisan..." purists are never satisfied...
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