Are we watching an actual GOP mutiny here?

[CatWoman]

thoughts?

[tridim]

1. The Republican party just committed suicide.

This is unbelievable.

[NNN0LHI]

2. We are watching cheap theatrics by ham actors

[Mz Pip]

18. Jr.

but they are getting no feedback or input from McCain since he's only there for political theater.

McCain should have let this play out on its own this afternoon. It might have been over. Or not. But now his lack of leadership is standing out like a huge sore thumb.

Oh, well.

[Catshrink]

3. Some weird shit is going on...

I can't figure out whom they are mutinying against. Is it Jr. or McSame?

[malaise]

10. Both

and they can no longer outwit Dems. McPOW should have thought about this when he didn't want Bush and Cheney at the convention. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Go Home Dems - they have finally fucked themselves in public.

[malaise]

4. Yep Bush has no credibility and neither does McCain

Thankfully Nancy will not play ball with this crap.
Thank you Dems. Go home.

[Catshrink]

13. Will Nancy grow a spine?

[malaise]

14. She did

She said no Partisan bill. No REthugs, no bill.

[upi402]

22. Pelosi and Co. waited until we are toast, however

stick a fork in it

one more fine experiment lost

will we ever learn

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yes...and they'll be responsible for what comes next

not that they will EVER admit it

[FrenchieCat]

6. All I can think of is that McCain ties it all in a pretty bow tomorrow,

and makes the debates, or Goodbye John McCain.

[jpgray]

7. No. We are watching them put up an alternative they know won't come to a vote

Yet it will provide political cover. If no bill comes to a vote, then they blame the Democrats as the ones in charge. If the Dems pass a bill without the GOP, they can wholly blame Democrats for the bitter pill -any- bailout package is going to be. In the latter case, they can claim their option was superior and would have "protected taxpayers" without any fear of events or analysis proving them wrong.

[anigbrowl]

12. Easy getaround

Bill comes up for a vote, Dems stage a small rebellion. Either the GOP helps it pass, or it doesn't. Either way, they're on the hook for the result. The Dem majority is small enough that it only needs a few 'rebels' to put the spotlight back on the GOP.

At this point, I'm thinking that we should probably make Paulson & Bush work through another weekend. No result tomorrow.

[adamuu]

25. Democrats don't stage SHIT

Republicans plot how to screw the Democrats. Democrats don't think that way.

[stillcool]

23. No bill will come to a vote...

without the Republicans input. That is already a given. They refuse to negotiate over a bill that isn't written yet, on a 'crisis' that required immediate attention according to the leader of their party? And this is what John McCain does?

[Xipe Totec]

8. Rats don't mutiny, they just bail nt

[ColbertWatcher]

9. No, they're testing their latest opera ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4089389&mesg_id=4089722

[Democrats_win]

11. With bush and McCain, it's ALWAYS about politics, Never about America.

We've watched them play this game again and again. Recall the great shame of firing those lawyers? We do know how low they'll stoop. We've seen it in McShame's commericals where we saw nothing but lies. Low lifes, McShame and bush. It never changes.

[AlCzervik]

15. i think his party is giving him a way to avoid the debate tomorrow night.

[angrycarpenter]

16. The GOP just ruined McCain's last chance after McCain ruined them.

If he shows tomorrow he will be in no position to defend himself. He screwed up the whole deal and cannot claim that he will ever be able to get anything done.

[malaise]

17. Turn on to CNN

They are eating Bush...even Rollins is trying to save McPOW against Bush.

[CatWoman]

24. thanks!!

:)

[annabanana]

19. It is the primary Republican fault-line cracking up.

The big money vs the small town...

[adamuu]

26. It's one of the many self-contradictions

that has always bothered me about the Republicans
It always baffled me how they could get these two contradictory groups together in the first place.

[Mist]

20. The freakish thing is, Dems and * are in agreement. Is that right? nt

[adamuu]

27. Only if the House Republicans agree. Barney Frank just said no partisan bills. n/t

[marmar]

21. They shoud do the honorable thing and walk the plank.....in the middle of the Atlantic....

.... with 150-lb ankle weights attached.