Surprise, surprise. John McCain was so floored by Barack Obama's nine-point lead that he's
'suspended' his campaign and decided to duck Friday's debate.
McCain and his minions are still locked in an active blood fight with the New York Times over their timely
response to his
challenge to have his embattled Fannie/Freddie campaign chief, Rick Davis' record "examined by anybody who wants to look at it,” and the report Tuesday that the lobbying firm of the
head of his transition team was on Freddie's dole from 2000 until the bailout.
This morning, McCain's hired hands were still attacking the Times over Davis while, revealingly,
neglecting to deny the heart of the charges; the $15,000 a month Davis got to help Fannie/Freddie duck regulation.
The only thing McCain will likely do in Washington is, first, work to cover-up whatever tracks he's made along the road of deregulation he traveled in the years before this presidential bid. Next, McCain will gather together all the likely suspects to stage a political response to the economic crisis.
It's not credible that McCain is ready to put politics aside just to focus on his day job. Just a week or so ago, his spokesman Brian Rogers threw down the political gauntlet and declared that the time for substance was over and signaled the beginning of the do-anything, say-anything campaign of lies that earned them the scorn of the senator's longtime media apologists.
“We ran a different kind of campaign and nobody cared about us," Rogers whined. "They didn’t cover John McCain."
Unable to attract anything more than Palin gawkers on the campaign trail, McCain is heading back to the town and the institution he regularly scorns in every address to take advantage of the taxpayer-funded platform. It's a wonder what McCain, and his confessed limited grasp of economics, hopes to contribute to the financial debate in Washington.
It's certain that we'll be treated to at least one breathless presser from McCain (covered by a media 150% against him :eyes:) with all of his fellow 'reformed' deregulators surrounding him, promising to clean up the mess they made . . . if we just give them more money to squander. But it's also certain that there won't be any joy among anyone seriously working to negotiate a bailout bill upon hearing that the presidential campaign is heading to the Capitol.