Posted on 09/30/2008 6:09:41 AM PDT by rodeo-mamma
Edited on 09/30/2008 6:36:56 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his top aides took credit for building a winning bailout coalition
Congratulations Right-Wing Nuts, on torpedoing the McCain campaign, and getting Obama elected, and probably a huge Dem majority in both houses. Well done, morons.
But you see, McCain really wanted the bill to fail while it just looked like he was supporting it...he is brilliant and a masterful politician
(this is what the MSM are saying about Pelosi today)
I don’t buy the claim that McCain was trying to take credit for the bill. However, I am thoroughly convinced that Pelosi sabotaged its passage. I expect the approval rating of Congress to fall even further.
When we find ourselves effectively on the same side as Pelosi then we had better question our assumptions. One or more of them has to be wrong.
I am wondering when Politico is going to report that Obama took credit for it on “Face the Nation”?
the bill still sucks and doesn’t do what it is supposed to do. But isn’t politics grand? Look at this crap they pull. McCain is perfectly capable of announcing the obvious - Pelosi screwed him. There’s a charming image.
The right-wing nuts passed up Mitt Romney, who’ expertise is definitely needed now and for some time to come.
Yesterday a bunch of Freepers expressed their desire that John McCain meet Obama’s failures head on, that John McCain meet the lies and inuendoes head on.
Well, it looks to me John McCain is.
And I am impressed with Senator McCain’s humbleness, graciousness, and quiet strength.
Not only on Farce the Nation but also in his stump speeches up to the vote.
Obama was saying it was his input and his policy that he sent to Washington that made this bill what it was.
The writer just made McCain look so dumb. If I did not know who this John McCain was, I would think he was an idiot. Who on Earth jumps up and down over a failed bill that he worked so hard to get passed? This has to be a writers interpretation. Certainly John McCain would not put his thumbs up over this? Would he?????? I am glad that I have already made up my mind to vote for Senator McCain before this mess these past few weeks.
On this website, yesterday after the bill went down I read a story about Obama coming out and taking credit for it’s formulation and passage. It exactly mirrors this story, which is strictly partisan.
Every move McCain has made on this issue has been clumsy, poorly timed and at odds with his claims that he will shake up the old Washington politics.
He wants everyone to believe that he is a maverick and will shake Washington up, but on the bailout he just went along with the old crowd.
Now, he has lost the public relations battle on the economy and the bailout.
His salvation was to side with the people who put “COUNTRY FIRST” as he says in his campaign slogan. But he decided to stick with his cronies on capitol hill.
He came down on the wrong side and will probably lose the election because it shows he will just give us the same old politics.
I wish he would think about his own campaign rhetoric.
1. Pelosi wanted to kill the bill to undermine McCain
2. McCain and the GOP were going to be blamed anyway - even if the lousy bill had passed
3. I am sure that the McCain people are furious with the House Republicans BUT they have given him a glidepath to victory if he would stop being a statesman and start being a politician.
4. McCain must demagogue this bailout and tie Obama to the Bush proposal.
Will he do it? I doubt it.
Over ninety percent of the country is ‘right wing nuts’ against a bailout. McCain took a gamble, thinking the odds were good, and uups, America keeps showing herself to be more conservative than he realized.
No he won’t do it- he has NEVER learned that ‘reaching across the aisle’ only gets his hand bitten.
So all we have to do to win an election is to put our grandchildren in debt to the tune of $1 trillion with a bill that doesn’t solve the underlying problem?
I would rather lose.
Read all about Pelosi punking Us on the vote
She set up the vote to fail.
Gateway pundit.
Second and third post .
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/
Well, I think McCain may have stepped in that $700b bag of dung that was put on the doorstep.
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