Buchanan thinks McCain might try to torpedo the Bailout Bill...

[LostInAnomie]

... and then try to replace it with his own version backed up by the Repukes. He just hinted at it on Hardball.

[David Dunham]

1. The Dems will reject McCain's attempt to do that if he does it.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Um....he's not on the Banking Committee. How does he manage that?

[LostInAnomie]

6. Senators can propose bills without being on the banking committee.

With the attention of the press it would be hard to not accept it for a vote.

[TwilightGardener]

9. But they would need to get the Banking Committee to accept it, right?

It has to go through some sort of committee, I thought.

[kenny blankenship]

10. McCain was in the WH confab today; Boehner started backing out of items previously agreed on

that's according to Cnn's Dana Bash (oh, how she danced around the word "reneged") from sources present in the room. That's also according to Chris Dodd, who was of course a party to the discussion. He added Boehner started talking about a different set of core principle agreements than the one Dems & Reps & the Bush Admin have been working on for the past week - with the implication that McFucksticks was backing Boehner, or putting him up to it.

Just call him McMonkeywrench from now on.

[tekisui]

3. Cuz that would be so mavericky.

:eyes:

This whole mcPOW shtick has gotten old. Give it up gramps, you are a has-been, no you are a never-was.

Go crash another plane, and get out of the way.

[liberal N proud]

4. No McCain deal

Not now, not later, no way

[my2sense]

5. So does this mean we won't wake up to Great Depression 2.0

on Monday? He and his staff have the economic background & knowledge to rewrite the bill this weekend? Dayum these folks are confusing me.

:silly:

[DesertFlower]

7. buchanan also said

McCain doesn't want to debate.

[Fleshdancer]

8. the McCain flop sweat must be intense right now

This could get pretty damn interesting. Yesterday he seemed like Bush's biggest cheerlearder to get this crap pushed through quickly but now he's hindering progress.

It looks like he's flailing around trying to fix the major f-up caused by suspending his campaign in the first place. It also looks like dragging this is the only way for him to get out of the debate tomorrow.

[dkofos]

11. Let him try it. I doubt the M$M will give him a pass this time around.

[PA Democrat]

12. I hope McCain will explain EXACTLY what it is he proposes and

WHY he thinks it is a better plan. Personally, I don't have ANY faith in a guy who chose the biggest corporate whore on earth as his top economic adviser. McCain is too intellectually limited to understand how we got into this mess let alone the best path out of this mess. He has shown horrendous judgment time and time again on issues related to the economy and regulation.

[Caliman73]

15. Just as long as his screw up

is bigger than the Democrats lame little dance. We need some kind of fix for this financial crisis. I know McCain can't do it. The Dems are acting too much like Bush lapdogs to hold anyone accountable. Someone has to step in and take charge. Come on big O we need you to come in and get this done so that you can lock up the election.

[Captiosus]

13. Buchanan also point out that McCain has put himself

"in a box".

Or as I call it: A no-win situation.

Yesterday, McDumbass and Falin' both repeated the same, tired, Bush-Paulson talking points that if they don't act now there will be some kind of severe repercussions - even perhaps a depression. And yet here we have republicans coming out saying: Bush is wrong, this is a crisis but we don't need to be rushed.

If McCain says yes to a bill that offers a bailout to save the economy from impending disaster, he'll divorce himself even further from Republicans and the public who are opposed to it. If he says no, he looks like a big ass hypocrite because he spent all of yesterday talking about how we had to have a resolution or there would be hell to pay come Monday.

He should have kept his mouth shut and just kept on campaigning instead of trying to interject himself into this situation where he has very little to no clout. In short, his knee-jerk reaction and Hail Mary pass just cost him the game because no matter what he chooses to do, he will be criticized negatively.

[meow mix]

14. he wishes.. but mccain will do what * tells him to do.

pukeannon is dreaming that mccain is an independent changemaverick.

[Stinky The Clown]

16. Old Pat sounded absotively posilutely hysterical on live teevee.