Days before McCain suspended his campaign Newt Gingrich was predicting that this mess can be dumped on Barack Obama if McCain votes against this bill.
The argument:
Put Obama on same page as George Bush on Corporate Bailout
John McCain revolts against George Bush
McCain runs ads with Bush and Obama lunching together after a meeting on the bailout.
Voila, Obama is in the pockets of corporate America and wasteful of taxpayer money.
You think i'm making this up?
This is Newt Gingrich on this issue:
He said the interesting break to watch will be whether or not Republican presidential candidate John McCain votes for the bill. "And either McCain will reluctantly go along, and I think [Barack] Obama is clearly going to go along, or you’re going to see McCain decide much the way he did with picking [Alaska Gov. Sarah] Palin that in fact he’s a genuine maverick and he genuinely defends the taxpayer and this is a terrible bill," he said.
"If the latter happens, I think you will see, overnight, the emergence of a McCain-reform wing of the Republican Party and you’ll see House and Senate members siding with McCain by overwhelming margins. And then you’ll be in a very different political environment. I mean, all of a sudden you’ll have Bush-Obama ads on the one side, and taking on the ‘Bush-Obama establishment’ on the other side and that will be, frankly, one of the more amazing elections in our history."
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Not to mention this Freudian slip by VP nominee Sarah Palin
everyone will be watching to see how McCain votes" to which Katie presses, "Why will everyone be watching to see how McCain votes and not Senator Obama??
Obama is being set up, and it's a sad day in America when the president plays games with the voters on this issue.
Of course this is all speculative but I ask, why are house republicans holding back on the bill?
Why are republican key lawmakers contradicting Reid on a compromise?
Republicans are unethical, win at all cost party. I rule nothing out when it comes to them.