Dodd calling his trip to the white house a waste of valuable time to go see a stunt.

[Stinky The Clown]

[TwilightGardener]

1. I'm sure Obama feels the same way.

[progressoid]

6. Yeah, but he's getting some prime TV interviews.

He's on CNN now and supposed to be doing a bunch more tonight.

[liberal N proud]

2. Said there was suddenly a new proposal

Hmmm.
All a fucking stunt to let McCain look like an economic hero.

I said it earlier and it still looks like this was all a set up to give McCain the lead on any economic deal.

[malaise]

3. This is mindblowing

Listen Dodd - Just say No and move on!!

[Turbineguy]

4. The Bushies have been faking it so long

it's all they can do.

[SmokingJacket]

5. What did he expect???

It's BUSH -- doesn't give a shit about regular people. He's ALL ABOUT taking care of his pals. He never done a single thing for the general good of the American people. Not one thing.

[Batgirl]

7. Josh Marshall at TPM pretty much predicted this is how it would play out

several days ago if I recall.

[Overseas]

8. He's right. It's a variation of Newt Gingrich's suggestion. Here's a link & clip:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/gingrich-mccain.html

If McCain were to come out against the bailout plan, Gingrich said that Republicans would rally to his side and it would become possible for the McCain-Palin ticket to style itself as "taking on the Bush-Obama establishment."

"Either McCain is going to go along" with Obama in supporting the plan, said Gingrich, "in which case the establishment will have the fix in . . . or you are going to see McCain decide, much in the way that he did in picking Palin, that, in fact, he is a genuine maverick, that he genuinely defends the taxpayers, and that this is a terrible bill."

"If the latter happens," Gingrich continued, "I think you will see the emergence overnight of a 'McCain Reform Wing of the Republican Party' and you'll see House and Senate members siding with McCain by overwhelming margins and then you'll be in a very different political environment. You'll have 'Bush-Obama ads' on the one side and 'taking on the Bush-Obama establishment' on the other side, and that will be, frankly, one of the more amazing elections."

[OakCliffDem]

9. We can get mileage out of McCain's stunt by telling everyone what is going on.

McCain is desperate and will call in any favor to get his name back to the top of the News cycle. McCain is an idiot