Graham on bailout negotiations: ‘You can’t phone something like this in.’»

[babylonsister]

But I guess McBush can. :eyes:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/28/graham-phone/

Graham on bailout negotiations: ‘You can’t phone something like this in.’»

This morning on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) praised Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for returning to Washington to help the bailout negotiations, saying his presence was vital to the negotiations:

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

Watch it at link~

Of course, though McCain made much of his rushing back to Washington after Friday’s debate, it turns out that he never went to Capitol Hill, where lawmakers stayed late working on the bailout. The New York Times reports that McCain was at his apartment “until 12:30 p.m. Saturday, when he emerged and made a one-minute trip in his motorcade to his campaign headquarters around the corner.” A McCain aide explained that “he can effectively do what he needs to do by phone.”

Update: Politico reports, "As his colleagues worked on the deal at the Capitol Saturday night, McCain and his wife, Cindy, dined with Sen. Joe Lieberman and his wife, Hadassah, at Cafe Mozu inside Washington’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel."

[Aloha Spirit]

1. That's a pickle, isn't it?

If McCain is the effective leader of the party, you'd think they'd be trying to cultivate loyalty.