It is clear now that Bush got rolled. McCain, however— what bad amendments did he support?
The best a minority party which is weak in all three branches in an issue can do is to haggle. Grandstanding in stubborn opposition to the inevitable does not help remove flaws from bad legislation.
On the other hand, if you clearly know what amendments McCain pushed for that were wrong, I’m interested to know.
What the hell are you smoking? The DeMint plan, the Hunter plan, and the House GOP plan were all infinitely better than this crap offered up by Bush/Paulson/Pelosi/Dodd. You make a stand and fight.
If they had, the dems were WAY too savvy to vote for this on their own - which they could have. Instead the GOP offered them the cover they needed to socialize the economy and gave us the worst possible non-solution EVER.