Let Me Guess What Is Going To Happen Now On This Bailout....

[global1]

no deal today; repugs tanked the deal; can't agree; all prearranged that this would happen; no debate for McCain; he ducks out because he wants to be the deal broker of this bailout; wait a day after the debate; looks like McCain is locked in intensive talks with the repugs in house/senate; lo and behold a deal emerges that they can support because McCain negotiated it; they force the Dems into accepting this new deal - because if they don't come along they will be blamed if the economy craters - using a McCain term that he used with Letterman.

[Drunken Irishman]

1. I hope not, or it may just very well win him the election.

[Auggie]

2. What else do you see in that crystal ball of yours?

[GrizzlyMan]

3. I prefer a reality based theory

There will be no agreement tomorrow. That much is becoming clearer and clearer by the hour. That means McCain will have to make a choice. Does he go to the debate, caving on his pledge to work on this issue or does he let Obama have an open forum, by himself, for 90 minutes.

Neither is a choice I would want to make if I'm McCain.

I know we're all used to playing the role of victims, it has become almost instinctual, but this is not one of those times. McCain has boxed himself in and it's a box he's going to have a hard time getting out of if there is no agreement, which there won't be.