if anyone will buy McCain's story...

What a blow hard.

Bite me.

That the ones stalling are McCant buddies in the House.

Besides according to his site, he already won. http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/9/26/105843/780

This is hilarious.

2 + 2=5

And we are at war with Eurasia. We always have been at war with Eurasia.

Please, please, please, do not give McCain gumdrops simply for showing up. If he is anything short of brilliant, say so.

Do not make your story one of lowered expectations met: "Well, McCain managed to get through the debate without throwing up, while Obama was unable to make the dead rise .... McCain's the clear winner here!"

I can't believe that I used to have respect for this man.

does anyone believe anything that man says anymore? Seriously.

From what I heard of the meeting with the Shrub, Obama asked thoughtful, probing questions of Paulson and McCain sat there with his thumb up his ass until the cameras were turned on and then he sat there grinning and giggling like some mental deficient.

What a joke McCain has turned himself into.

So Obama is "posturing" for actually participating in the meeting that McCain himself insisted they both attend. But McCain is lauded for lacking the intellectual curiosity or energy to ask a single question? Sounds about right.

And exactly WHAT part of the campaign did McCain suspend? Is anyone asking him that question? Seriously.

Is he really going to get away with that kind of barefaced lie?

What a gutless, cowardly sh!tbag this guy is.

If there was any lingering doubt that John McCain had sold his soul to be president, there can be none after that statement and his actions over the past few days. Near the top of the Rove playbook: do something smarmy and completely motivated by self interest and then accuse your opponent of the same thing.

God help us all if we get another four years of talk and inaction.

He was against going to the debate before he was for it.

You never cease to amaze, Alex!

I have no idea -- zero -- how this is playing in Peoria ... but even an extremely lazy and casual observer must -- really reallly really -- detect some problems with McCain's "story" over the last week, the last few days in particular ...

Who are you going to believe his campaign's spin or your lying eyes?

This would be a good moment for someone to get on some sort of "straight talk express" ... McCain's failure to articulate ANYTHING is glaring ... blaming the Democrats is ludicrous ... even the REPUBLICANS are blaming the REPUBLICANS in this stalling.

I have rarely if ever heard such scepticism, verging on cynicism in the mainstream press over the repubulicans playing politics while Rome burns and Wall Street threatens to go under.

Thank god for Barney Frank and some other grownups who have done their homework and read the memos is all I have to say.

If we fall for this bait-and-switch crap, I will be so ashamed. McCain is making a fool of himself.

It's just unbelievable how far he's fallen.

we're going to find out:

A) if one of the biggest assholes in modern politics (which is saying something) can actually get elected President.

B) if elected, what it will be like to be governed by one of the biggest assholes in modern politics.

Now let me get this straight....

As McCain lands at the airport, the media announces there's an agreement to the broad elements of a deal,

Three hours after he gets into town the deal falls through,

It now appears the holdout are some conservative republicans who are convinced this deal will pull us into the maw of socialism,

And this is the Obama campaigns fault?

Does anybody but the base buy this BS? Really?

This is beyond surreal, I feel like I'm in an M.C. Ecsher painting

Please go straight to hell.

Say, wasn't the main difference between what Senator Obama backed and what Senator McCain wanted (after he changed his position) the lack of homeowner protection in the McCain version?

It's too bad there's no recording of the meeting where McCain talks about how "...Barack Obama's priority was political posturing in his opening monologue defending the package as it stands".

At the debate he will defend the alternate Republican plan, where the Treasury does not buy the toxic assets owned by these financial companies -- but offers insurance to them, instead, which they will have to pay for. Obama will have to answer why he defended the original plan -- which will use taxpayer money to buy up these toxic assets and line the pockets of Wall St. fat cats.

We shall see what the public thinks of that.

He was for deregulation then he was against it and now he's for it again. McCain is starting to look like the Mummy and sound like Sybil.

The guy's in rhetorical quicksand. It just keeps getting worse.

What a pud.

This guy could actually be worst than Bush. Un-freaking-believable.

Historians have said you can tell how a President will govern by how they run their campaign. We can see what McCain would do. A giant cluster.

Only idiots are voting for McCain. True idiots.

now we know what the first questions should be. Something along the lines of "Do you believe our own bullsh*t?" or "People are calling you insane. Not maverick-y. Demnted. Could you please respond?" or "Please outline for us, with at least 3 specific, concrete, factual examples, how anything you did helped fix this crisis. Senator Obama, please rebut."

Maybe what it all comes down to was that McCain's people decided the ONLY way their guy could possibly win a debate with Obama was if they managed to turn Barack into the "angry black man". Bullshit like this really pisses ME off; luckily, Barack's a much cooler man than I.

Are you a complete moron?

From Hilzoy "Bear in mind: this still leaves taxpayers on the hook for all the MBS that default. It just sounds nicer without that $700 billion price tag attached to it. Moreover, how much would we insure the MBS for? Is it at all obvious that insuring them at face value would be cheaper than buying them at a serious mark-down? Doesn't insuring really bad MBS at face value just increase moral hazard?"

Again, are you a complete moron? Do all repubs fall for this crap or is it just you?