I think McCain is going to have to vote for it.
He got most everything he wanted in it, and he’s said he hopes he can vote for it, that doing nothing is not an option.
And I don’t think that would be the end of the world for him.
But what he’s going to have to do after this bill is behind us is start lobbing some bombs.
He needs to call out the people and the programs responsible for this.
McCain likes to say that he’ll make pork-barrelers ‘famous’ when he’s president. He says he’s the Sheriff of the Senate. He says he’s against corruption and fraud in congress.
Well now is his chance to prove it.
He’s surrounded by corrupt politicians who caused this.
He needs to call them out, by name.
He needs to expose what they’ve done, how we got here.
He needs to stop calling them “my friend” and start calling them what they are: crooks.
We all know congress is corrupt, and its not merely because of airdropped earmarks.
McCain is going to have to go after the perpetrators and the bills that caused this, and the kickbacks and revolving door between government and Wall Street.
Right now the Democrats are telling everyone it was “Republican deregulation” and Phil Gramm who are responsible for all of this, and without any pushback from McCain and the GOP, the public has no reason not to believe them.
McCain’s problem is he thinks the public wants bipartisanship.
The truth is, bipartisanship is the problem, because of the unspoken rule that both parties protect each other... though the Democrats break that rule all the time.
What the public really wants is for someone to pull the curtain back on Washington and expose what really goes on there. McCain could do that.
I doubt McCain will put blame on where it is due, a large part of which went into effect during the Clinton administration, and the Clintons are McCains “friends”.
If the line between the liberal and the conservative is so blurred by compromise, then neither stands for anything, then anything goes. And there goes the country.
The bailout is clearly anti-Constitution, and clearly Socialistic, imo.