Originally Posted by ratbastid

pan, if you understood how Congress works, you'd never say such an absurd thing.

These two men are NOT the leaders of their parties. They are their parties' Presidential Nominees. They're not on the Banking committee. Neither of them is in the Senate leadership. One of them is going to be the next president, but that doesn't magically give them "fly in and fix things single-handed" authority.

They're not in on Banking committee meetings. They're not participants in that part of the Congressional decision-making.

Plus, all signs indicate that McCain was actually obstructive to the plan that was forwarded yesterday afternoon, while Obama tried to bring the sides together--which is exactly what you yourself claim you'd want him to do. He did that! Precisely what you want! So now please ignore all this and post another screed.