This is great. Now backing off the "fundamentals are fun" idiocy from yesterday, McCain provides his solution to the economic distress facing the country: we'll start a club!
Republican presidential candidate John McCain is calling for a high-level commission to study the economic crisis, one similar to the commission that studied the Sept. 11 attacks.
Yeah, that's the way to fix the economic problems facing us today. We'll create a commission that takes a month or more to put together, spends six months studying all the issues, and then it's final recommendations are delayed by infighting and the President's refusal to cooperate (remember, it's like the 9/11 Commission!).
And at the end of all this the Congress can pass a bill to enact the recommendations over a period of a couple months, and McCain can veto it because it has too much regulation.
Essentially he wants to kick this down the road a couple of years, kind of like in 1929 and 1930 when the federal government took no action and let "market forces" play out. That's his solution -- wait. And it's easy to do when you have hundreds of millions of dollars of your wife's money.
But for the rest of us it doesn't work that way. We can't just wait it out, because we will lose our homes, our retirement savings, our college accounts and any chance at a good, solid middle class life.
That's OK for the "down-to-earth" millionaire McCain and home tanning booth liar Palin. They'll be able to weather the storm without really seeing a difference in their living standard.
But that commission will guarantee one thing and one thing only -- that the rest of us are screwed.