John McMaverick: spoonbender, revisionist
During a conference call today, Politico’s Ben Smith reports that McCain Campaign Manager/fannie mae cashbox/revisionist historian Rick Davis made the following claim:
McCain campaign manager Rick Davis also credited McCain with “blowing … up” the first bailout package when he suspended his campaign to come to Washington, something McCain’s campaign had heatedly denied at the time.
Davis expressed outrage that, “in the middle of the greatest disaster in our financial system that we’d had in our lifetime, that the Democrats in the United States Senate would actually link payments to ACORN in the bailout package that they promoted — prior to Sen. McCain coming to town and actually blowing that package up. So we can actually say that in addition to saving taxpayers millions of dollars, and we’re very happy that no more taxpayer dollars were added to the pile of money going to ACORN.”
Which is interesting because, as Smith points out, at the time McCain blamed Obama for the failure of that bailout package — but only after claiming credit for providing the leadership to forge the bipartisan compromise to make the deal, in advance of its failure.
So, at the time, he claimed to have brokered the deal and blamed Obama for its failure; now he claims he torpedoed the bailout and takes credit for its failure.
What a maverick.
I realize that older folks can be very forgetful but, gosh, doesn’t McCain have babysitters to keep him from sounding like a crazy old loon? Oh wait…that WAS one of his babysitters. Nevermind.
By definition, 1/2 of all Americans are below average in intellect. He only has to fool them +1 to win. Bush did it TWICE fer gawdsakes.
I don’t think McCain can beat the odds. If only Bush hadn’t stacked the deck so far against him, had McCain not behaved like a Meth and Steroid fueled evil stepdaddy, had Palin one ounce of intelligence…if, if, if.