In case you haven't heard, McCain blinked and "resumed" his campaign (did he ever really suspend it?). Now that the biggest political "Hail Mary" in history has turned out to be an incomplete pass, he has been left with very few options.
But, apparently his campaign has decided to take an even lower road (didn't think that was possible) and become even more disdainful of the Obama campaign. Furthermore, they have just completely lost touch with reality.
I don't like the idea of giving a former Goldman CEO $700 billion to prop this nation's counting houses just so they can figure out a way to cheat the system and get us into a similar mess 20 years down the road. Becky and I didn't bite off more than we could chew when we got our mortgage and we manage to pay it on time every month. We pay our taxes and try not to carry credit card balances. Unlike the morons out there who used their homes as ATM's, opened up credit cards to buy Hummers, and finance first-class vacations with home equity loans, we have tried to live within our means. That said, we also understand that if the government (God help us !) doesn't do anything about this debacle, economic Armageddon will ensue.
But, McCain and the Republican party have decided that political grandstanding and their one-size-fits-all ideology toward taxes is more important that salvaging global finance as we know it. First, his aforementioned stunt and, secondly, once an agreement is about to be hashed out, the Republicans decided that "the Amurican tayx-payer shouldn't be spendin' money on all them Jew-faggot-liberal-bankers in Jew York!" Apparently, staring into the financial abyss is preferable. God help us, indeed.
But, it's worse. Yes, McCain blinked. But his campaign's statement today was an exercise in bitter spite and self-delusion. According to Rick Davis and the other poo-throwers, there's a blame game going on and it's all the Democrats' fault. They stood there kicking and screaming and turning blue in the face until they could take all of YOUR money. No, it had nothing to do with head-in-the-sand, opportunistic GOP House members sabotaging the deal once it was made. No no, "Barack Obama's priority was political posturing in his opening monologue defending the package as it stands." Nice of them to conveniently leave out the fact that "the package as it stands" was conceived not by Pelosi's Tax-Loving Liberal Democrats, but by a Bush-man himself, Hank Paulson.
But despite McCain being shamed back into running a campaign and debating, the minions have betrayed their puppet-master and Bush is up a creek without a paddle. But, we all are because, as of yet, we don't have a flippin' plan to literally save the economy! Wow, political dithering might actually be our downfall. Way to prove a point, GOP!
I really hope this latest stunt comes back to bite McCain and his party. It once again showed his impulsive side, but it also showed that he would be willing make such a gamble because he thought it would win him some electoral brownie points. Furthermore, it shows him at the helm of a party that would rather see this country implode financially than raise those Gosh-Durn taxes. I hope whoever moderates this debate tonight rides him so hard on this foolish decision that he blows a gasket and socks Obama in the face. You know, shows us "The Real McCain".
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