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Breaking News: Barney Frank: GOP "Repudiates" Bush Administartion Bill
Barney Frank is holding an impromptu press conference as I write this. He's saying that the House GOP caucus is actively rebelling against the Bush Administration and the bailout bill that was agreed to earlier; they are, in fact standing in opposition to the whole concept. They are instead pushing their own idea:
do away with all caitol gains taxes for at least 2 years. Frank says that there will not-and cannot be legislation as things stand. he stated that McCain's intention seemed to be to derail what had previously been agreed to. Chris Dodd appeared on-screen for a brief moment and then said "I'm going home", turned around and left. Tom Costello of MSNBC is saying that McCain offered no leadership and only wanted to politicize the situation. The conservative members of the house GOP contingent are refusing to negotiate and there appears to be no hope of a deal. Barney Frank just said:
"Heaven help us from John McCain's help."
If you made this stuff up, no one would believe it!
Comments (1)
Thanks, Burt! I knew I should be blogging this but was having trouble finding my jaw once I'd dropped it on the floor. Every once in a while my inner chicken-little raises its scruffy little head in a panic that McCain's campaign has finally found the right set of machinations and manipulations to pull out some kind of miracle. Republicans pretend to negotiate in good faith, then McCain swoops in and presides over a group-maverick-a-thon to rescue not Wall Street, not Main Street, but their right to rule with insanity and inanity until the Rapture.
(DEEEP BREATH)
But that--making our hair stand on end--is exactly their plan. McCain is a drama queen with a perfect sense of timing. But voters are beginning to realize that this guy is all about crisis and fear. There are only so many times you can cancel your campaign and your appearance on Letterman and swoon over a crisis so bad that oh, dear, you can't possibly concentrate on a debate, before your image switches from maverick into what many of us have always seen: an old guy yelling "get off my lawn!"
September 25, 2008 10:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
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