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Republican Disinformation Ploy on McCain?
A story in the LA Times contains a couple of quotes that perhaps explains McCain's bizarre recent behavior. Last night in talking to Nancy Pelosi he told her that he wanted to help because, "Nothing is happening." At the Clinton Global Initiative today McCain said, "I cannot carry on a campaign as though... a solution were at hand."
Hours after McCain's statement to the CGI, Congressional leaders announced a solution.
It has been widely reported that McCain has many friends, but few allies in the Senate. In any case, it appears that he has been grossly misinformed about the true progress regarding the bail out bill in the Congress.
Perhaps the bill's status was exaggerated to him in order to get him on board or perhaps its status was exaggerated to force wavering Republicans on board.
In either case it appears that the Republicans kept their Presidential candidate in the dark during this crisis.
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