well now here's an interesting development. mc-cain arrives, the deal collapses. suddenly, conservative republicans in the house want the same thing mc-cain supports, but before they were ok with the deal and now, suddenly, they aren't.
White House Meeting Fails to Yield Bailout Deal - washingtonpost.com
so let's assume for a moment that dodd's statement on the first page of that article (above) is accurate, and that the republican action "looks more like a rescue plan for jon mc-cain" than one aimed at however you understand the derivatives market implosion to be.
now we know that the republican study committee and that old harridan gingrich have come out in opposition to this deal on neoliberal grounds--they can't say the word neoliberal, but they blab alot about "free market principles" as if these were separate from an ideology. whatever. cowboy george goes on television last night to interrupt the continuum of entertainment and announce that everything is about to tank so hurry hurry hurry. word is from the house banking committee last night that an agreement was close, and then again this afternoon--and agreement was close, all that remained was...
john mc-cain to show up.
now friday is typically bad news day. since the reagan period, if something really shitty is happening and it involves the continuous information management system in the white house, that shitty news does come out, but on friday. preferably in the afternoon. so it looks like that's being set up, but a little early.
do you think that mc-cain is THAT afraid of a debate tomorrow? or is it that his campaign is afraid of the appearance of total irrelevance following on the decision to go act Leadership=full... or maybe there never was an agreement and an already discredited administration decided to buy itself one more day than it thought it had by releasing a fake story. now that doesn't seem right.
what we do know: mc-cain shows up, the republicans in the house decide that NOW is the time to reverse course and say no deal. so maybe now mc-cain can appear to broker a deal and appear bi-partisan in the process, resolving an entirely fake crisis. so that's mean that the house republicans are playing chicken with a pretty serious financial situation, which has now become a "Crisis" because cowboy george interrupted the flow of entertainment, in order to give the mc-cain campaign the possibility of a theatrical Moment and also, in the process, avoid a debate.
would the republicans do that? would the party of karl rove stoop to this?
it's just a coincidence.