McCain Can't Rally His Own Party 4 Votes
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| Mon, 09-29-2008 - 4:24pm |
McCain's own party doesn't listen to him. How is he supposed to "reach" across the aisle and "work" for the American people? Barack got 2/3 support. Which one has more clout? And once the American people vote out the GOP dead weight, more responsible GoP leadership should come. All McCain wants to do is point fingers, mark down names, and blame, blame, blame.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/14088.html
McCain takes credit for bill before it loses
By MIKE ALLEN | 9/29/08 3:37 PM EDT
“I've never been afraid of stepping in to solve problems for the American people, and I'm not going to stop now,†John McCain told a rally in Columbus, Ohio.
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his top aides took credit for building a winning bailout coalition – hours before the vote failed and stocks tanked.
The rush to claim he had engineered a victory now looks like a strategic blunder that will prolong the McCain’s campaign’s difficulty in finding a winning message on the economy.
Shortly before the vote, McCain had bragged about his involvement and mocked Sen. Barack Obama for staying on the sidelines.
“I've never been afraid of stepping in to solve problems for the American people, and I'm not going to stop now,†McCain told a rally in Columbus, Ohio. “Sen. Obama took a very different approach to the crisis our country faced. At first he didn't want to get involved. Then he was monitoring the situation.â€
McCain, grinning, flashed a sarcastic thumbs up.
“That's not leadership. That's watching from the sidelines,†he added to cheers and applause.
Wisely, in retrospect, McCain initially had been more modest. On Sunday, he said on ABC’s “This Week†that congressional negotiators deserve “great credit†for the bipartisan deal. “"It wasn’t because of me,†McCain said. “They did it themselves.â€
But at almost the same time, McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt was saying on NBC’s “Meet the Pressâ€: “What Sen. McCain was able to do … was to help get all of the parties to the table. There had been announcements by Senate leaders saying that a deal had been reached earlier in the week. There were no votes for that deal.
“Sen. McCain knew time was short and he came back, he listened and he helped put together the framework of getting everybody to the table, which was necessary to produce a package to avoid a financial catastrophe for this country.â€
On Monday morning, McCain campaign communications director Jill Hazelbaker said on Fox News that the deal would not have happened “without Sen. McCain.â€
“Sen. McCain interrupted his campaign, suspended his campaign activity to come back to Washington to get Republicans around a table,†Hazelbaker said. “Without Sen. McCain, House Republicans would not have appointed a negotiator, which would not have moved this bill forward.
“It’s really Sen. McCain who got all parties around a table to hammer out a deal that hopefully is in the best interests of the American taxpayer.â€
After the vote, commentators were harsh. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews said: “He’s like a cavalry commander who said ‘Charge!’ and the Republicans went into retreat.â€
Edited 9/29/2008 4:59 pm ET by niteowl08


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"finally got up with my broker and told him to BUY.
Maybe you should be blaming some of these?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
It keeps getting repeated here that the Republicans didn't honor...... It's getting pretty old
News reports, not talk radio personalities, have reported that it was not a slam dunk that the Republicans had all the votes they needed to pass this bill.
>>> Did Palin coach you?
I know she's very smart and knowledgeable, but no, she's busy preparing to kick Joe-Joe's butt.
>>> Very vague and circular.
I guess facts might seem that way through the kool-aid haze, but in reality they're quite straight and direct.
>>> John McCain has a record of bad temperament, corruption, and de-regulation.
McCain has a record of integrity, bi-partisanship, selflessness and patriotism. Obama...well, he doesn't really have any record to speak of, now does he?
>>> Oh, and he hates vets and women.
LOL! Right...being a vet and married to a woman I can see how you would get that impression.
>>> Now, he has picked a vapid VP choice.
You have a vapid Presidential choice...and VP choice. LOL!
>>> That is NOT country first...unless he means N. Korea or Iran or Venezuela or Russia...and on and on...
Oh...the countries that the neophyte Obama wants to chat with and then bend over for!
Because it was a opened bill a "blank check" if you will. Give them money with no expectations in return. That is why people have so many problems with it.
I understand what you are saying.
I think if you were to draw back the partisan curtain a bit and attempt to hear Nancy's speech from another point of view, you may understand.
But I do understand that for those that choose to try to make this a political, partisan, all about beating the other guy down with rhetoric issue, and are also liberals, Pelosi's speech was just what they wanted to hear.
Thanks.
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