McCain takes hit from bailout collapse: CNN
With bailout, McCain reaches dead end: the AP
Will the bailout fry McCain's candidacy?: ABC News
Wheels come off McCain campaign: the Pensito Review
McCain blames Obama for republicans voting against bailout: fark.com
Obama using a teleprompter: instapundit.cumstain
The House's failure to pass a $700 billion bailout package Monday not only held back billions for Wall Street, but also was a major blow to John McCain's presidential campaign.
"I think that John McCain failed to lead," said Terry Jeffries, a Republican strategist.
"I think that John McCain failed to lead," said Terry Jeffries, a Republican strategist.
Can he look like a bigger bonehead? Well, yes. Politico (paraphrasing):
John McCain, bragging about his involvement and mocking Sen. Barack Obama, took credit for building a winning coalition – then the vote failed and stocks tanked.Thanks mainly to McInsane's own rethuglican party, who had a major hissyfit after that mean Nancy Pelosi said howwible things about them.
Initially, McCain went silent, manfully choosing instead to send one of his douchebag advisers out with a helpful statement that blamed Obama:"This bill failed because Barack Obama and the Democrats put politics ahead of country," McCain adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin said, if by "Barack Obama" you mean John Boehner and by "Democrats" you mean republicans.
After days spent bashing the Illinois Senator, McInsane then had the huevos to say "Senator Obama and his allies in Congress infused unnecessary partisanship into the process."
I'm sorry, what???? But with the insta-polls coming in all over cable news showing it was the rethugs the America-hating public were blaming, it wasn't long before McCain told reporters in Iowa "Now is not the time to fix the blame. It's time to fix the problem." He then went on to
Douche.
All in all, McCain might have been better served by staying out of the mess.
The rush to claim he had engineered a victory now looks like strategic blunder that will prolong the McCain’s campaign’s difficulty in finding a winning message on the economy.
The rush to claim he had engineered a victory now looks like strategic blunder that will prolong the McCain’s campaign’s difficulty in finding a winning message on the economy.
-- via N. S. Sherlock at Duh! News. I notice that, though McNutjob started out taking credit, he's certainly not taking any of the blame now that its failed.
Oh, the heinous remarks by Ms Pelosi are here. You tell me what was so bad that the WATB rethugs had to bail and fuck everything over.
Update: Politico is reporting that the rethugs planned on killing the bailout bill even before Ms Pelosi spoke.
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