Bailout Blunder: Can McCain Be This Stupid?

I was ready. I was all for getting a bailout bill behind me and go into the weekend happy to have a solution in place, albeit $700 billion lighter in the wallet. But nooooo, friggin’ John McCain and his band of merry friggin’ Republicans had to gum up the works.

It got so bad that Bernanke and Paulson had to get called back to try and dig the politicians out of the hole they dug themselves in. On a side note, Paulson has to be asking himself what the Hell he got himself into. I mean, the guy was a giant at Goldman, there wasn’t anything he touched that didn’t turn to gold. Now he sends email chain letters to Greenspan for getting him into this mess.

Now it seems there is a sticking point with the $700 billion by uptight House Republicans. I don’t get it, it’s the eleventh hour $700 billion is all we have been talking about for almost a week now. For goodness sake, my three year old is tired of hearing me say $700 billion. Really, she counts to twenty but instead of 18…19…20, its 18…19…$700 billion!

Senator Christopher J. Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee complained that the late complications were making the episode sound more like “a rescue plan for John McCain,” the Republican presidential candidate, than one for the financial system. It does no good, Mr. Dodd said, “to be distracted for two or three hours by political theater.”

If this is true, if this bill falls apart (at the time of this writing it’s not looking great) so John McCain could ride into Washington like some white knight to save the day then people are going to be pissed and not even pictures of Sarah Palin in high heels and hot pants, standing over a water buffalo she shot with a 50mm cannon, while harnessed to the side of a Huey helicopter while flying over ANWR will save his campaign.

Here is a quote from our friend Senator McCain:

“I am confident that we will reach an agreement that gets a majority of my colleagues on my side of the aisle as well as a majority on the other side.”

I’m sorry what? Are you really trying to frame this whole effing thing like it’s your idea? Can you really be that full of yourself? When is the last time someone told you no Senator? Obviously no one said no to running for President for the second time, no one said no to taking on Palin as VP, and obviously no one said stick to your campaign and let’s beat the guy that is pulling further and further away every day.

So, I have to ask Senator, is this you being a maverick or just a douche trying to get out of what I am sure will be a drubbing at your regularly scheduled debate? Time to man up and run for President and get your ass kicked. Then you can go back to the desert, lay in wait and try again in four years while distancing yourself from everyone around you other than your wife, which, by the way, I gotta tell ya, she scares the Hell out of me!