I’ll bet it was a set-up all the way..... from what I’ve read Paulson is NOT on the admin’s team and is a Democrat in both reality and spirit.
I’ve wondered whether McCain was also “set up” by any Democraps in Congress privately encouraging him to come back to DC to save the day when they knew he would then be undermined — b/c it made no sense for him to suspend his campaign and rush to DC unless he had reason to believe the Democraps would work with him in a non-partisan manner. Instead, we had the spectacle of a-holes like Schumer and Reid ridiculing and undermining him, which is what I would have expected.
So I do wonder whether he got private signals to “come to DC and save the day” when in reality the Democraps had no intention of letting him accomplish anything at all.
McCain’s passion for bi-partisanship led him over the precipice when there was no chance that the Demagogues would say or do anything that would allow any credit to fall upon him......
It was a lose/lose proposition from the start. If McCain had made a big push FOR the bailout, he would have been flayed by conservatives. If McCain had spit fire AGAINST the bailout he would have been flayed for "failing to save the economy". Obama and the rats KNEW there could be no winner and this is why Pelosi INSISTED on a no-doubt-about-it "bi-partisan" bill.
I will never understand how McCain fell into that trap.... No way could he win.
Obama is the candidate who played it smart. But then, I think he had the playbook.