McCain called charge and the Republicans retreated… They showed they could be mavericks, but we need a leader…. The Democrats voted for it overwhelmingly, the Republicans opposed it by 2 to 1.
– Chris Matthews
Barack Obama on the campaign trail:I was on the phone with Secretary Paulson as well as the Speaker of the House and the Congressional leaders, because they are still trying to work through this rescue package. And obviously this is a very difficult thing to do.
It’s difficult because we shouldn’t have gotten here in the first place.
We meet here at a time of great uncertainty for America. The era of greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street and in Washington has led us to a financial crisis as serious as any we have faced since the Great Depression. They said they wanted to let the market run free but instead they let it run wild, and in the process they trampled our American values of fairness, balance, and responsibility to one another. Now, because of speculators who gamed the system and regulators who looked the other way, your jobs, your life savings, and the stability of our entire economy is at risk.
John McCain on the crisis: I suspended my campaign and came back to Washington because I thought that it was vital to do so. Sen. Obama said (initially) he was available to discuss the issue by phone. I didn’t want to phone it in. I’m proud that we were able to get this done.
Mittens taking credit for McCaint:
CHICAGO (AFP) — John McCain’s presidential campaign claimed credit as Congress readied Monday to vote on an emergency economic package, but Democrats said the Republican’s last-ditch intervention had been no help.
Mitt Romney, McCain’s erstwhile rival for the Republican nomination, said the deal on a Wall Street bailout worth up to 700 billion dollars would never have happened without the Arizona senator.
Speaking on NBC television, the former Massachusetts governor said “this bill would not have been agreed to had it not been for John McCain.”
“If we don’t pass it, we shouldn’t be a Congress.”
-- Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the senior Republican on the Budget Committee and the lead Senate negotiator.
There’s your answer to the economic crisis.
Ya vote Republican and ya get what ya deserve.
It’s just the rest of us that don’t deserve it.
Not unlike what McCain and his crew did for jobs in Ohio
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