Dodd: The Meeting Was A Bust - McCain, House GOP Derail Bailout Negotiations

[kpete]

Dodd: McCain, House GOP Derail Bailout Negotiations
by FleetAdmiralJ
Thu Sep 25, 2008 at 03:05:40 PM PDT

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In other words, he is literally trying to undue an almost done deal with seemingly everyone agreed on just so that he can come in and "save the day" by trying to force his own bill into the picture.

Of course, this also has other implications as well, including the fact that there is almost no way a deal will be reached by tomorrow night's debate, and there is a possibility that no deal may be reached even by next Thursday's Vice Presidential debate, giving them an excuse to skip out.

If I were Obama and the Democrats, this is what I would do:

Continue working on the current framework, but if it appears by the end of the day tomorrow that you just aren't going to get the House GOP votes you need to give yourself cover, then dump the plan and start working on your own from scratch.

Then next week we can have a battle - in Congress - between Obama's plan and McCain's plan and they can duke it out there.

Update

Commenters are now reporting that Senator Corker (god I still can't believe he won) also said that they had a deal going in, and that it was blown up afterwards. He, of course, tried to do it while being nicer to McCain, but that was the jist of it.

Update 2

Obama on CNN: Deal was done before he and McCain arrived and then "something happened." Obama also notes that the negotiations may be getting bogged down due to the introduction of Presidential politics.

Update 3

McCain on Nightly News: Country First! Town Hall Debates!

That's about it. Obama's tape blew up so they'll try to show his interview later.

Update 4

I should note, since people are asking, that Dodd said that "he had no idea" what McCain and the House GOP was talking about when they brought up their plan.

more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/25/175740/704/707/610504

[cynatnite]

1. IMO, the repukes and McCain are all in cahoots to derail this thing...

McCain'll be the dumbass lone ranger and the repukes will declare..."he puts country first! he puts country first!"

This is one of those days I begin to feel loathing for these people.