Country Last

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Country Last
Submitted by pmcarpenter on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 5:26am. P.M. Carpenter

THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter


Yesterday morning John McCain said in New York City, where he paused for nearly 24 hours before rushing back to Washington, D.C., that "a crisis calls for all hands on deck."

The truth of that folksy aphorism may be debatable, but what's non-debatable is that, at the very least, it presumes a full deck, which McCain clearly isn't playing with any longer. Not, that is, if he ever had "Country First" on what's left of his scheming mind.

Just where are we? Zimbabwe? What a farce. What an absolute political farce of Third World distinction.

Here's a man who self-confessed that he understands less than beans about economic complexities, yet he hurls himself into the epicenter of inscrutably high financial negotiations, resulting, naturally, in headlines such as, "Talks Implode During Day of Chaos."

As the New York Times reports this morning, when McCain and Barack Obama "trooped to the White House on Thursday afternoon, most signs pointed toward a bipartisan agreement on a grand compromise that could be accepted by all sides and signed into law by the weekend….

"It dissolved into a verbal brawl in the Cabinet Room of the White House, urgent warnings from the president and pleas from a Treasury secretary who knelt before the House speaker and appealed for her support."

McCain's work for the day was done. He had triumphantly provided cover for the return of right-wing politics, Neanderthal ideology and populist pabulum into the debate, after the adults had had their agreeable whack at it.

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