"McCain camp claims credit over bailout changes"--3 hours later, DOW Crashes/Bailout Crash---

[msanthrope]

Time to make John McCain eat his words.....


McCain camp claims credit over bailout changes
3 hours ago

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."

"That doesn't mean that he's the only guy doing that. And there many people ... who have been critical to it," Romney said.

"But, you know, this is a bipartisan accomplishment, a bipartisan success. And if people want to get something done in Washington, they just watch John McCain," he said.

more at link.....
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j7hIHOwVW6DK5Vg54OsbCT_6eB9Q

[truthisfreedom]

1. That's going to leave a mark.

[msanthrope]

2. Only if we don't let it go down the memory hole....I'm betting McCain

would like this forgotten...

[msanthrope]

3. Anybody got video of this, I'm looking can't find...n/t

[dgibby]

10. CNN aired it earlier today. It might be at their site

[msanthrope]

4. bumping my own post from this am--this needs to go viral////

[greenmutha]

9. K&R!

:thumbsup:

[msanthrope]

5. More actual quotes from McCain taking credit...

"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.""

more at link

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

[JBoy]

6. "if people want to get something done in Washington, they just watch John McCain...

and the feeling will go away fairly quickly.

[central scrutinizer]

7. there is no way to measure the value of McCain's leadership

but subatomic physicists are working on new instruments that may prove useful

[mokawanis]

11. Ha! I'm stealing that line to use on the repugs at work

[kenny blankenship]

8. Maveric!

Keep 'em guessing, McCain! Hell I don't even know what planet he's on, he's THAT good!