Of course, McCain hasn't done anything in the senate since April and economics "isn't his thing," so there is some doubt regarding what he could do besides wait for the real Congressional leaders to come up wits some kind of legislation and then step out to the media and take credit for it. But it got even more weird. Here is a collection of video that starts out with McCain begging off the Dave Letterman show to fly back to Washington and then going down the street to give an interview to Katie Couric. Dave is quite properly incensed.
Senator Boxer then points out that John McCain was basically curling up in his corner with a blanket wrapped around him because there were too many things to handle.
OK. Cancel the Letterman show. Try to cancel the Friday debate and reschedule it in place of the Vice Presidential debate, which the interview Katie Couric had with Sarah Palin clearly showed Palin will simply not be able to deal with. Here is Dave Letterman when he found out that McCain had lied to him.
McCain convinced Bush to call both him and Obama to Washington to meet with Congressional leaders to try to push through the Paulson Proposal.
Only it didn't work. Instead of working to get legislation through Congress, McCain did whatever he could to scuttle the work that had been done. (Some leadership!)
So what we have is a floundering prima donna Presidential aspirant who has no interest in either economics or legislation to begin with who uses the Wall Street credit crisis as an excuse to bail out of previous commitments on the campaign trail which he knows he cannot deal with well, then he flies into Washington and works to scuttle the Congressional legislation that was painstakingly worked out in his absence because if it passes he can't take credit for it.
What it comes down to is that John McCain is doing his best to make sure no one resolves the Wall Street credit crisis without involving McCain front and center. Since the Democrats aren't going to vote a party line vote for a Wall Street bail out that McCain votes against and let McCain and the Republicans use that vote against Democrats in the November election, McCain can prevent any deal from occurring. He may not be able to get a deal, and it begins to look like he doesn't want one, but he can prevent any Wall Street bail out.
It's not a case of McCain putting "Country first." It's John McCain first, last and always and no one better misunderstand that or he'll make sure no one gets anything done. Some fracking leadership!
Addendum 7:51 pm CDT
The pundits are not impressed by McCain's attempt to "suspend" his campaign.
McCain always follows up a failed (or stale) gimmick with another, one equally outrageous. I wonder what the next one will be. I'm pretty sure we can count on at least one in the last two weeks before the election, but that's a long way off. There will be another in the intervening period.
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