Now we know, McCain and Boehner torpedoed the stunt-meeting at the White House over a plan that McCain HAD NEVER SEEN OR READ. How’s that for temperamental and impulsive? His time to do homework is running out; his plane is on the way to Mississippi for the debate and he’s going to be asked what his position is on the bailout, as is Obama.
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In less than 48 hours, McCain went from “I’m far too patriotic to debate unless there is a deal that is done — there’s no deal until there’s a deal” to “I’m going to debate even though there’s no deal.” Is there any way to describe that other than, as Spencer Ackerman put it, a “humiliating failure”? The New York Times’s Patrick Healy today inanely ponders whether “In a Time of Crisis, Is Obama Too Cool?” (Didn’t Rudy Giuliani become the Greatest Man Ever in History because of his post-9/11 coolness?) But surely excessive stoicism is vastly preferable to the sort of unstable, flailing panic that McCain has exhibited this week, where he issues a definitive, emphatic pledge which, less than 2 days later, is completely abandoned with little real explanation.
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