Sunday, September 28, 2008

The Knight in Shining Terry Cloth. . . [with updates on phones and fools]

Total. Fraud. [link]
After declaring he’d return to Washington to help with the bailout negotiations immediately after last night’s debate, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) never went to Capitol Hill today. In fact, McCain stayed largely holed up in his Arlington apartment, leaving only to go to his campaign headquarters just around the block, the New York Times reports:

Asked why Mr. McCain did not go to Capitol Hill after coming back to Washington to help with negotiations, [McCain adviser] Mr. Salter replied that “he can effectively do what he needs to do by phone."

Yeah. 72 hours ago the planet was tipping off its axis, tv appearances canceled, campaigns suspended, and debates should be rescheduled so Johnnie Drama could fly to D.C. to personally, with his bare hands, wrest an economic solution from a hapless Congress, Treasury and President...

But today, when nobody's paying attention, McCain can handle his "role" in the negotiations in his bathrobe from one of his thirteen houses.

UPDATE [even better]: I suppose that's understandable, because when he DID show up in person it went like this



If there were video of that exchange it would end this thing right fucking now.

Josh Marshall has the next two paragraphs...
[...] McCain did not answer.



Awesome. THAT is the difference between tactics and strategy, Senator McCain.

UPDATE 3 [you can't make this stuff up]:


"John didn't phone this one in.... You can't phone something like this in. Thank God John came back."

Seems to me, the only time progress WAS happening was when McCain was nowhere near negotiations—the deal is almost done before he parachutes in, he screws it all up, sits on his hands in the big meeting, and then backs down and goes to the debate. He then spends Saturday hanging around the house LITERALLY PHONING IT IN, drops by the campaign office and then he and Barbie go out to dinner with the Liebermans.

Yeah, sounds like he played a VITAL role, Sen. Huckleberry. As Benen said,
""Thank God John came back"? There's partisan hackery and then there's THIS kind of partisan hackery."


Smitty said...

Funny how Graham sucked-up but other Republicans decried his visit as toxic.

I see that the polls are widening a bit between Obama and McCain...but too large a segment of the population still buys this line of shit from Bush/McCain.

Mr Furious said...

No surprise there...Graham and Lieberman have been locked in a "How Far Up John McCain's Ass Can I Get?" contest for years.

Look for Lieberman to wedge himself up even further—he needs McCain more because his career in the Senate is finished.