Aide: "Impossible to know" if McCain will be in DC for bailout vote

[tannybogus]

Amie Parnes just reported this jaw-dropper.

John McCain's top economic adviser reiterated his conceptual support for the bailout to reporters -- but a spokesman told Politico he's not sure the Arizona senator will actually be on hand for the vote, which now seems likely to come Wednesday:

On a conference call with reporters on Sunday, Douglas Holtz-Eakin said Sunday that McCain staff members are “looking at the proposal.”

“We have every expectation that the House will be able to move quickly,” Holtz-Eakin said. “The senator’s goal all along was to put in place a process that would address the problem and respect the American taxpayers’ dollars.”

Asked if McCain would return to Washington for the vote, “It’s impossible to know until the vote has been announced,” Tucker Bounds, a McCain spokesman, told Politico.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0908/Aide_Impossible_to_know_if_McCain_will_be_in_DC_for_bailout_vote_.html

[samsingh]

1. let's get this straight. mccain suspends his campaign and tries to get out

of the debate because of the economic crisis. now he won't even vote?

[Orsino]

13. It's only fair now that he suspend work on the economy to run his campaign! n/t

[maddezmom]

2. He's the Drama Chicken

:D

[TexasObserver]

5. So true!! All that big talk, and the little guy won't show up to vote.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. McActing!

[ingac70]

3. After that show he put on last week...

he better show up to at least vote "present".

[gateley]

4. Brilliant.

[BlooInBloo]

6. (shrug) It's hard to tell where senile old folks will go from one minute to the next...

http://www.236.com/news/2008/09/26/missing_grandpa_has_been_found_9155.php

[AndyA]

8. Why screw up his record?

It's been what, since April that he last voted on something?

Why mess with a good thing?

[TwilightGardener]

9. This is INSANE. Is he trying to chicken out on yet ANOTHER controversial bill, after

doing his usual grandstanding?

[knowledgeispwr]

10. If McCain doesn't show after he made such a big deal about it....

hmm.

I don't see that working out well for him.

[Parker CA]

11. TB is full of BS. McLiar will be there. This is a ploy to get attention from the media.

[jimshoes]

12. Really, he was falling all over himself to get there

last week. What changed?

[kenny blankenship]

14. Miss the vote for this country's most important economic legislation in at least a generation?

What a coward!

[Junkdrawer]

15. I thought Harry Reid said "No McCain Yes Vote, No Bailout"...

I guess he didn't really mean that.

[girl gone mad]

16. They caved on every other supposed "requirement"

What's one more?

[ThoughtCriminal]

17. Loading....

[WheelWalker]

18. Wait a minute. He might vote "Absent"?

[seemslikeadream]

19. Did he use his last parachute?