“Senator McCain added nothing of substance,” Cheney writes about the now-famous meeting. “It was entirely unclear why he’d returned to Washington and why he’d wanted the congressional leadership called together.”
I found myself thinking much the same thing back in 2008. McCain made a grand show of suspending his campaign to deal with the debt crisis. It was a big gamble that might have paid off, had he actually followed it up with something substantial at the meeting. Instead, he mostly just sort of sat there.