Legal Commentary

McCain Blames Obama and Democrats for Bail Out Failure

By Jeralyn

Here's the McCain/Palin Campaign's statement on the failure of the bailout bill to pass the House.

McCain falsely implies he brought about the bipartisan agreement for the bill and blames Obama and the Dems for its failure. If you needed a greater reason to see how McCain distorts the truth, this statement is it.

As for Nancy Pelosi's speech today affecting the vote, keep in mind the Dems got 140 of their members to vote for it and only 95 Dems voted against it. If McCain was so influential and wanted the bill to pass, why couldn't he persuade more than 63 of them to go along? Why couldn't he persuade the other 133 to listen to his advice? [More...]

While McCain's stunts of suspending his campaign and belatedly flying to Washington, in truth, had zero effect on bringing about the agreement on the Bail Out bill, his effect on members of his own party as reflected in the final vote was less than zero. It's also not an encouraging sign of his ability to work with Congress if elected.

McCain failed on both counts. He had nothing to do with the creation of the bipartisan agreement or final bill and he failed to get his party to vote for it. A politician who can't admit his own failure and instead tries to blame the other guy? Haven't we had enough of those?

Update: Here's McCain before the vote, giving a thumbs up and taking credit.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 29, 2008 (boomark / email).