No New Economic Policy Is Expected From McCain (NYT)

[huckleberry]

More confusion and erratic behavior from the McCain campaign...

WASHINGTON — Despite signals that Senator John McCain would have new prescriptions for the economic crisis after a weekend of meetings, his campaign said Sunday that Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, would not have any more proposals this week unless developments call for some.

The signs of internal confusion came as the campaign is under pressure from state party leaders to sharpen his message on the economy and at least blunt the advantage that Democrats traditionally have on the issue in hard times. Republicans have grown fretful as Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, has edged ahead in polls three weeks before the election, while Mr. McCain has veered between ill-received economic plans and attacks on Mr. Obama’s character.

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On Saturday, his advisers were considering a range of economic ideas, one indicated. On Sunday, on the CBS News program “Face the Nation,” Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a confidant of Mr. McCain, confirmed a report on a Web site, Politico, that Mr. McCain was weighing proposals to cut taxes on investors’ capital gains and dividends. “It will be a very comprehensive approach to jump-start the economy,” Mr. Graham said, “by allowing capital to be formed easier in America by lowering taxes.”

But McCain advisers later said they did not know why Mr. Graham said that. One noted that Mr. McCain’s economic plan already would cut capital gains and dividend tax rates, by extending President Bush’s 2003 tax cuts. At the phone bank, Mr. McCain declined to answer a question from a reporter about what he was considering.

more at
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/us/politics/13plan.html?ref=politics

[elkston]

1. Man, that campaign is chaos. How could anybody trust he'd be able to run things?

[FreakinDJ]

2. Same old trickle down horse shit that melted down Wall St

Oh Gee - whats next Medical Insurance Deregulation

Can't wait

[Marsala]

3. More Epic Fail

"Hey America, guess what? You know how I was working on a solution to save the economy? Well, turns out I don't have one!"

This is beyond pathetic. McCain isn't even in tune with lead stooge Lindsey Graham.

[dgibby]

4. Don't blame Lindsey for the confusion.

Considering where his head has been, I'm sure his ears are full of shit, and he just didn't hear clearly!