Reid: "Anyone who tried to understand what John McCain said (at the White House) couldn't."

[bigtree]

“I think he’s standing in the way of our efforts at approving this legislation now,” Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid said.

“If we lose progress on this because of one person, that’s John McCain,” Reid said.

http://thehill.com/content/view/76594/70/1/1/


Reid, D-Nev., said he believed the breakdown was simply an effort to allow McCain to miss Friday night's scheduled debate with Obama.

Said Sen. Reid: "Anyone who tried to understand what John McCain said (at the White House) couldn't."

http://www.heraldonline.com/115/story/843476.html


“We don’t need presidential politics involved in this,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, accusing McCain of saying nothing substantive in the meeting. “John McCain hasn’t voted in the Senate since sometime last April. And I say very sincerely that he has done nothing since he’s been here the last few hours to help this process.”

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/25/dems-blast-mccain-after-bailout-negotiations-go-sour/

[elocs]

1. As far as missing votes goes, from my earlier OP that got no responses:

In the 110th Congress (1/07-1/09) John McCain has missed 64.1% of the votes.

Link: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/senate/... /

Obama missed 45.9% and Senator Clinton missed 32.2% of the votes, so senators running for president did miss a lot, but McCain was the clear #1. In fact, McCain's 64.1% of missed votes is greater than Senator Tim Johnson who missed 48.4% because he suffered a brain hemorrhage in December of 2006 and spent several months recovering. In fact, Senator Ted Kennedy who was recovering from surgery for a brain tumor, showed up in July to cast a vote to end a Republican filibuster on a Medicare bill. The final vote was 69-30. Although 99 senators showed up to vote, it was not important enough for John McCain to be there.

But now, he is Mighty Mouse: "Here I am to save the day!" Where would they all be without him?

[hedgehog]

2. How many votes did he miss before he was running for President?

[MadMaddie]

3. Anyone watching the news now? Apparantly the Republicans

backed out of the plan the President presented and presented another fucked up plan!!

[bigtree]

4. this was the reason they called McCain to D.C.

. . . to stage this political revolt against any WH and Democratic compromise

[MadMaddie]

5. They are apparantly following McCains lead....

[bigtree]

8. It's still not clear whether McCain can get enough republicans to bolt

. . . and they can't do anything but protest unless they can peel enough Democrats off like they did on Iraq legislation with a republican compromise. Backbone time again.

[Jane Eyre]

6. CNBC

I've been watching CNBC during the day. They are pounding the table on the need for this deal to go through. Jim Cramer in particular, and he is basically a Dem. Today the CNBC talking heads were all specifically pointing out that it was the Democrats who were helping out to get something through, specifically stating that it was the Republicans in Congress who were dead set against the deal. At one point, one of the main guys stated that it was a myth that the Republicans were helping Wall Street because they weren't being helpful at all.

Strange days indeed....

[Pale Blue Dot]

7. Jim Cramer, A DEM???

:rofl:

He is a Freidmanesque, neoliberal conservative Republican opportunist. I would love to know where you got the idea that he is a Democrat.

[KoKo]

9. No...he really is a Dem....I know it's hard to believe. But he works for GE..and they took a hit

today...because "Ge Capital Credit" half the company is in trouble..doing some of the stuff that needs to be bailed out. Cramer isn't gonna bight that hand that feeds him...

And, he's a Keynesian....not a Friedman devotee.... really. :eyes:

[JBoy]

10. He helps as much as my Grandpa did when we cut a big tree down at the cottage.

Of no help at all, and had less sense than the dog to stay the fuck out of the way.

[OakCliffDem]

11. McCain is a babbling fool