Thursday, September 25, 2008
Mac to the rescue
Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the chief House Democrat on the bill, said, "all of a sudden, now that we are on the verge of making a deal, John McCain airdrops himself to help us make the deal." Yeah, sure.
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Counterpoint: At the meeting, participants said House Republicans presented new language to include in the plan and the meeting blew up. Democrats felt blindsided and charged that the White House meeting was trying to help the McCain in the presidential race. They said McCain had given his tacit approval to undercut the Paulson plan, perhaps to be a champion of opponents of the package.
Not bad.
I said this a long time ago. Also, as much as the media wanted to say that the deal had been done, all Mac had to do was get a few Reps to say otherwise on an old payback and suddenly he's mr crucial again.
Great theater. Of course the situation is awful, but what you gonna do? Gotta win the election first, as I have been saying. I think actually he ougght to get Romney over there as one of his team or some such crap and they together save the day from do-nothings in congress.
Then announces that Mitt's his boy on the economy...
It's 40 long days to the elections, then 2-3 months of transition limbo. In the meantime, we can go to hell in a hand basket. Much as I hate to admit, W and his boys are losing it. McCain is gambling now -- yet again. He's rallying some buddies on Capitol Hill. Let's see how this goes. I'm afraid though it's not just partisan games: if Paulson doles out a trillion buckaroos to those Wall Street idiots, just like that (throwing good money after bad), we're all in deep doo-doo.
...and if he doesn't we will be too.
As TeddyR. said, The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life. In other words, becoming French.
Teddy was a fan of the strenuous life. It builds character. There might be something to that.
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