Great.  McSame flies into town just in time to derail the bipartisan consensus that was emerging.  Really helpful of him.

Seems like everything McDotard touches turns to shit.

If this is good for Obama that's about the only person this is good for . . .

This is much much bigger. Politically this will sink Republicans. I can't imagine we can sustain one more week of inaction. Wall Street is bleeding to death. I think by the end of the week, Republicans will seem like villans. Public Opinion will swing heavily in favor of the bailout.

John McCain Pulled Up His Suspenders, Went to Washington, And Then The Economy "Started To Crater".

The Republicans just took ownership of the impending recession/depression, and financial meltdown.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/john-mccain-pulled-up-his-susp.php

It's unclear, of course, where the dust will settle after the spin wars over the bailout's failure -- the GOP is aggressively blaming Congressional Dems, which could reflect on to Obama. And it's possible that McCain will be able to retain credit for supposedly having tried to light a fire under Congress' posterior, although that's unlikely at any rate given the press reports about his disruptive role.

Also made more unlikely by the fact that McCain already, you know, claimed victory today in Ohio (as did Steve Schmidt on Meet the Press yesterday morning).

We can't look past the fact that McCain was dancing in the endzone before he even reached the 20-yard line.

PPP NC Poll

Obama 47 McCain 45

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-takes-lead-in-north-carolina.html

Obama spokesman, Bill Burton is on MSNBC blowing the interview. Giggling and laughing about John McCain's charges that Obama isn't actively doing anything, is not the best tone right now. they need to lose that.

THIS

I already have friends asking me whether this is another stunt designed to set up a situation that allows McCain to fly in again and "save the day."

It's a possibility, I suppose. But we have to remember that John McCain is among the many people, ideas and institutions that the House Republican Study Group loathes and despises with a near-religous zeal. They MIGHT help him, but the price would be high.

More likely, I think, is that the House GOP dead-enders are trying to force the Democrats to pass this on their own, so that Hensarling, Pence, Cantor, Putnam, et al have deniability to their "movement conservative" friends and constituents.

They don't believe the bailout will work -- but they're scared to death to cooperate in giving it a try. So they may go on resisting until the Dems have to step up with something they can pass on their own. In either scenario -- failure or Dem unilateralism -- the House GOP wingnuts figure they're covered.

These free market freaks are still trying to snooker the country so they can get a better handle on where this money is going before it really is too late i.e. before they have a chance to set up a few off shore accounts. I am not a conspiracy nut, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that their "fear' is not out of ripping off the American people but that this money will go away without them having a chance to breathe heavy on it a little longer.

"Slippery slope to socialism" my ass. The only thing they hump more than their pages are their wads of cash.

Way to go McDog.

As the headline on marketwatch said just now:
House to Street: Drop Dead.

McCain once again shows what an unqualified buffoon he is to even be considered for the presidency.

Intrade weighs in:

Obama - 61

mcShame - 38.7

Looks like we have a winner for the Pottery Barn Broken-Special of the Day

Imagine all of the folks over fifty who are still working and planning on retirement who just saw another 5% of their savings go up in smoke because of some hot-headed wingnut congresspersons took offense at a speech, ie saw a lame excuse to cop out on their responsibilities, and voted to gamble and play political chicken with the world economy.

Sounds like just the kind of thing that John McCain would do.

Time for Obama to twist a few Democratic arms into switching their votes. They're not that far away. Then he can tell the American people that the Democrats are the party of adults. While the R's were busy posturing and whining and sticking to their almighty "principles" it was the Democrats who rolled up their sleeves and got things done.

What's all the discussion? The answer is yes. Unequivocally. We've known this about McCain for a long time: if Bush is a shoot-from-the-hip guy, McCain shoots before he gets it out of the holster. Thus, the holes in his feet. Yes, the answer is yes!

Truly, this is the most awful self-immolation of any political campaign ever!

Ritual sepuku of mcShame. Public Shaming! By his congressional "friedns." And the Stock Market.

I truly believe things will settle down on Nov 5 when NO Drama Obama is elected.

And as someone said upthread, this whole thing is bigger than politics. But all we have is politicians, not leaders. I'm glad the bill failed though, but not for how it failed. Paulson should have been dismissed immediately, and fired, and the Dems should have presented their alternate plan. But there is no alternate plan because they don't know what they're doing. Headless chicken time. Funny, but this has caused me to take a step to the left, from progressive to libertarian. Full circle.

Next, I'm expecting Paliln to return to Alaska to push back the Russian incursion that will occur, when a Navy Seal is spotted canoeing across the Bering Strait with a Dr Zhivago hat on. No VP debate!

You know, kids, at least we are of a generation of Americans who can say they lived through a period of unprecedented events such as 9/11, the Bush v. Gore mess, the first African-American candidate, and what is, without question, the most f*cked up campaign ever run by a major party.

Our grandparents had the Depression and the War. We have these little monuments to idiocy, speckled from time to time with moments of breathtaking achievement.

I am drawn to Obama because I have a sense that he would be a transformational President, though I must confess to wondering from time to time: what, exactly, is the thing that will test his greatness.

I think this is it. We are in dire straits, boys and girls. Not the first time, and not the last for this nation. But it is precisely during times like these that Americans slap themselves out of it for a few minutes and choose leadership.

Watch Obama go up by the double digits, the absence of which the media wondered about.

Obama cannot be seen and the guy who is blaming McCain. You gotta hope the media does it for him.

I think they will. Matthews is just the start, more will follow.

Oh yeah, let the countdown begin to the re-"suspension" of McCain's campaign.

10...9...8...

Time for a new, New Deal. I want the WPA and CCC back yesterday. Time to include the working class and get some money flowing again.

CEOs and lobbysts funded GOP House members killed the bill (2 3rd oppsed)because there was retraint-on-CEO-and-Executive string attached to it.
So CEOs and other executives succeeded to fail the bailout bill through their loyal GOPs, the recipient of regular campaign contribution, kickbacks, and gifts.
Where is the self-proclaimed maverick, one who cannot reach his own side of the aisle and brags about reaching across the aisle? Is he not part of failing the bill?
Did he not mean he would suspend his campaign until he did "necessary work" for failing the bill when he said he would "suspend my campaign and return to Washington until a deal can be reached in Congress"? Did he not mean "the deal" to fail the bill?
Freud is helpful here to psychoanalyze the McCain suspension of the campaign statement: It is called sublimation with relation to the desire of the conservative base of the party, in which he masked his desire to fail the bill by articulating the opposite in public, something acceptable in appearance but coded to be read as the directive in reversal. But introduction of the conservative bill at the end of the White House meeting and refrain from taking a position was a veiled endorsedment of the conservative base's position and his support's support for failing the bill and protecting all Carly Fiorinas, contribution base of the party.

It's rare to see GOP conservatives teamed up with Maxine Waters and Dennis Kucinich but that is what happened today -- a rebel alliance.

McCain's suspension stunt last week was attempted suicide. We'll see in a few weeks whether his suicide attempt succeeds but today's vote was an assist to that suicide.

And Fugu2, please don't go to Japan; they eat Fugu!

He crashed his sixth plane on this inane stunt. That's leadership!!

I think McCain should suspend his campaign again, what the heck? It might work next time.

Or maybe McCain himself should be put in suspended animation, perhaps some future generation can revive him when a Republican actually has a chance to win the Presidency again.

Over the past two weeks, McCain's done more leaps, twists and turns than a figure skater doing a long program.

Yesterday, he and his hacks took credit for the bailout before it failed. After the failure, he said that it wasn't time for the blame game and then blamed Senator Obama. I guess that Obama was supposed to be working the Republican caucus while the McCains and Sanctimonious Joe spent Sunday night dining at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

The Palin/McCain/Rover campaign really thinks that we're a bunch of idiots. Whatever works at the moment!