He Came, He Saw, He Queered the Deal

Silly me. I figured that McCain's "suspension" of his campaign was a completely empty gesture which would contribute nothing to any bailout deal.

I was wrong. John Sidney McCain III's high profile involvement, and the White House meeting that his his campaign engineered, just had a deal blow up, because John McCain allied with conservative Republicans in the house to propose yet another tax cut.

About the only good things to come out of his involvement are a couple of bon mots from Democrats, the first from Christopher Dodd, who said that the entire affair sounded more like, "a rescue plan for John McCain than one for the financial system," and the other from Barney Frank, "Senator McCain has said he had to interrupt his campaign and couldn’t do a debate because he had to come here to help us. God save us from such help. But in any case, there is no sign whatsoever that Senator McCain’s got any real role here, so he certainly ought to feel free to go back and debate."

In the mean time, Boehner aHis Evil Minions^&trade make it clear that this is just another exercise in dick swinging for purely partisan gains.

Lovely fellows, I'm glad that I have a daughter, so that I can forbid her to marry them.