Politico: McCain takes credit for bill before it loses

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OK, in this theater of the absurd that the McCain/Palin campaign and the Republican Party along with it have become, McCain not only said the fundamentals of the economy were OK then supposedly suspended his campaign when it was in fact still in full operation to fly to Washington without anyone asking, ostensibly to help with negotiations that were reportedly already concluded but in point of fact to inject his campaign politics into those same negotiations which caused them to disintegrate right before everyone's eyes, besides the fact that McCain had absolutely nothing to say or contribute McCain's campaign today took credit for the bailout bill passage a bit too soon -- like before the bill passed -- which it didn't.

Hey, McCain, you out of touch, unstable liar. You took the credit there, champ, so now the blame is all yours too. :)

From Politico

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=AF9F10EC-18FE-70B2-A82949C5A24271A8

McCain takes credit for bill before it loses

By: Mike Allen
September 29, 2008 05:39 PM EST

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.

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."

McCain, grinning, flashed a sarcastic thumbs up.

"That's not leadership. That's watching from the sidelines," he added to cheers and applause.

Doug Holtz-Eakin, McCain's senior policy adviser, told reporters on a conference call that McCain "dedicated the past week" to addressing the problem but made "a conscious decision not to attract attention to John McCain."

"He's made dozens of calls," Holtz-Eakin said.

Asked if McCain bears any responsibility for the bill's failure, Holtz-Eakin said McCain "improved it greatly — took the lead in the need for taxpayer protections."

Making a similar point earlier on MSNBC, Holtz-Eakin said McCain deliberately "kept a low profile."

"John McCain understands that had he looked like he was going to be the key to the success, that Democrats would attack him and kill the deal," Holtz-Eakin said. "That's what you saw today. They were not going to let John McCain do the job that he was trying to do: deliver a bill that would help the American people."

Enough already. No one is really going to vote for this idiot, right? I mean, no one is really that stupid, right?

This election will be a referendum on exactly how stupid the American people really are.