COLUMBUS, Ohio — After bragging today about his role in shaping the economic bailout package, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made no statement to the press after the defeat of the bill, in part at the hands of House Republicans.
Instead, McCain boarded his Straight Talk Air charter plane, where he sat in front, separated from reporters by a brown curtain, without making a comment on the bill’s defeat.
So much pomp, so little circumstance. After melodramatically "suspending" his campaign last week to rush back to Washington — well, okay, to his campaign office in Arlington — to save the Wall Street bailout negotiations — well, okay, to make dinner reservations Saturday night with the Liebermans at a four-star restaurant in D.C., John McCain got to watch his latest campaign publicity stunt crash and burn with the same fiery elan as those four Navy jets he piloted.
Such a miserable failure demanded the only response possible for a diva: blame everyone else.
Later, his campaign’s senior policy adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin issued a statement blaming Democrats and presidential rival Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for the bill’s defeat.
"From the minute John McCain suspended his campaign and arrived in Washington to address this crisis, he was attacked by the Democratic leadership: Senators Obama and Reid, Speaker Pelosi and others," Holtz-Eakin said. "Their partisan attacks were an effort to gain political advantage during a national economic crisis. By doing so, they put at risk the homes, livelihoods and savings of millions of American families."
Somebody fetch McCain his turban. You can find him in his trailer, pouting.
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Poor John!
Hi WT!
I guess if McCain poops in pants that they will blame Obama for hiding the adult diapers.
Hurry call the Whaaaaambulance.
Evening watertiger. Hi firepups.
Might be time to buy Mc$hame the centipede-pack of flip flops.
Flaming fucking asshole McCain.
Time to call the waaaaaambulance again.
john mccain has been reduced to a watb
hey watertiger
That happened before most of us were born.
And that ain’t horseshit!
Mad Dog McCain and his buddies Boehner and Blunt sunk this deal in the
desperate attmpt to blame Obama for the mess and change the math of a
failed campaign… that is how far gone the republican suicide club has
become… drama, drama, drama.
Just be thankful he is not your senator. He is the Las Vegas senator.
The Bush Economy
I was walking
down the isle
of the grocery store
and I heard
a little boy
ask his mother,
“Mommy,
can we buy
dog food
with
food stamps?”
poem by John Hulse from The Best and Worst Job I Ever Had
Crashes Planes, Trains and Campaigns
No More Drama…Vote Obama!
And now he wants to gamble with America’s future.
That ain’t a double horseshit!
Not to mention stock markets.
That’s our Mr. Lucky!!!
Whoa, sorry for the late entrance. Subway trouble.
Actually he’s the Wizard from “the merry old land of AZ”. Phoenix, not Los Vegas (NV), though he is backed by a whole lot of casino “owner” money. Those at the gaming boards…not so much, anymore.
McCain is watching his campaign crashing down around his ears. He’s so closely tied to the deregulators, and the big-money fatcats that he loves that he can’t see the forest for the Palins.
As he falls, he sees the analogy to his career in the Navy… he was never selected for Admiral, the top rank he could have gotten because the boards that sat in judgement on him passed on promoting him. Now the American people are passing on promoting him from Senator to Preznit.
Call the whaaaaaambulance. Stat.
This certainly give the nation a glimpse at John McCain as leader of the Republican party. He goes marching off down the road unaware the 2/3 of his troops are not following.
God, how humiliating that must have been!
What an astounding lack of situational awareness!
Nah! It was all Obama’s and Pelosi’s fault.
Anyone who wants to live blog TDS and Colbert, we can now do it on Oxdown without risking spoilers here. Thread is up.
To McNasty life is just another crapshoot!
More Republicans voted against it then Democrats. Well, actually they may not have been Republicans but python spirits masquerading as Republicans, or vice versa. I always forget which is which. It’s so hard to tell them apart anymore.
Of course it is. McCain was a POW which means he gets a free ride for life.
McCain is his own damned fault.
Pepto-bismol is good for that.
McCain boarded his Straight Talk Air charter plane, where he sat in front, separated from reporters by a brown curtain,…
damn – just after he banned Modo.
*She* coulda clawed through that curtain.
OMFG… you’ve reminded me that I have an olde licorice disk of “Sunset Boulevard” as a radio play with most of the original cast – including Bill Holden and Gloria Schwanson. After the last few months… I think I’ll distract myself with that for tonite. Ja matta, ne. O`yasumi nasai~! (:>
Python spirits are civil and responsible demons.
McCain was a POW?!?!
The last 10-12 days for TeamMcCheese have been without a doubt the most rudderless campaign in memory. Quicksand wherever they step.
Not unhappy about it.
I still can’t decide whether Cleese or Chapman is my favorite.
That’s not quicksand, that’s a steaming pile of horseshit!
Probably. He does seem to be leaving a smelly trail.
Oh, dude. You diiiiiin’t!!!
Sarah could get rid of those demons for you!
She would just replace them with even worse.
Let’s see some Diggness right now for WT!
Dugg.
Howdy, neuro
I think with McNastys past he’d be used to going down in flames!
Crashing and burning is what he does best.
I wish I could know what is going through McC’s head right now. He must be in a panic and screaming at his campaign people. Would be nice to know when he starts screaming at Sarah.
of course you are right that Repubs defeated the bill, but I’m so sad at the continued bashing of Doug Holtz-Eakin.
Don’t you realize that he is a disabled person?
Can you imagine going through life with that hideous hyphenated last name?
Can you imagine what monstrously egomaniacal people his parents must have been to tag him with that moniker?
Yes, he’s an idiot. But he has a huge disability. A little tolerance would be nice.
dammit, as liberals we’re supposed to be nice to the disabled.
This time he doesn’t have the luxury of an ejection seat!
Dugg. Thank you.
John McCain’s head right now is like that Larson “Far Side” cartoon about what people say to dogs, and what dogs hear. Except that all the blank spaces are filled with “C**T!”
Nate Silver now has Obamas probability of winning in November at 83%.
what’s playing on mccain’s ipod
The Mccain meltdown ought to be coming real soon!
wahhh!
“Tough titty,” said the cat to the kitty when the milk ran dry.
When McCain pops Lieberman in the chops across their table at a four-star restaurant, we’ll know he’s under stress.
From your keyboard….. that bastards seems to have more lives than a cat.
Man , that was awful at least the 20 seconds I saw1
83%? As Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid would say, that’s nearly a majority.
Other people play such a large role in the many failures accompanying John McCain. It’s eerie, really.
Excellent post, wt.
oh, my.
i may have to post that at Degenerate Retrograde.
Almost as bad as a Sarah Palin interview.
Poor widdle kitty…
Meeeeeeester Parrrrrrrrtridge….
Nothin is that bad!!!!
If the Dems had 100 percent in both chambers Pelosi and Reid still wouldn’t be able to get anything passed. Just sayin’.
They really are painful, aren’t they? Saw the one with Daddy McCain there tonight and it was just as bad.
hey, newt
Do ya think he’s regretting his choice?
Have to admire their economy with language.
THE best thing about this years election is having the WHOLE rest of the country actually see the Real McCain…… it really is fun…… next best thing would be to run McNasty and CindyLou out of town on a rail……
Nope. John McCain was a POW and he regrets nothing. Besides regret assumes higher mental function and a moral sensibility.
I will supply the tar and feathers.
Is McCain blaming it on gotcha questions?
McCain was a POW?
Indiana now at 50-50.
being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the 21st Century.
As I’ve said before, Bill Clinton could spend a few days here, and lock this state up.
Both of them are blaming it on gotcha journalism. Never knew that not being able to answer wiffle ball questions constituted gotcha journalism.
I really don’t see how he can stay in the Senate after this humiliating campaign and his bad choices. I suppose he will ’cause he’s a cranky old coot but I would be too ashamed if I were in his place.
Any question that requires a straight answer!
That is because you actually have a sense of shame.
hey, he’s a Maverick™, haven’t you heard?
What I see is that the McCain campaign lives in the same Bush like bubble and they still think they control the media like they did up until 2004…… And since 2004…. there has been the increase of progressive radio, KO and Rachel….. and of course the Blogs……
The McCain bubble does not know there is audio or video tape….. That there is teh Google…. and FactCheck…… and Snopes actually debunks all these lies……
Breaking: McCain resigns Senate seat to devote 40% of his efforts to Presidential campaign.
I suppose he will ’cause he’s a cranky old coot but I would be too ashamed if I were in his place.
Ya suppose that he’s gonna lose the Miss Congeniality contest *again*?
Shit – I say rig that vote, just so he’d stfu.
Maybe Sarah can just phone in her debate answers.
I really cannot even imagine trying to watch that debacle.
We have begged Gov Janet not to accept a position in the Obama administration and stick it out until 2010 and we ALL will work our butts off helping her to McCain’s Senate seat……
And what does he do with the other 60%? He sure as heck isn’t spending it with Cindy?
McCain suspends marriage to Cindy Hensley so he can devote his time chasing his running mate around the table.
would you?
Just remember that if AZ looses McCain before 2010….. The Gov will HAVE to appoint a Repug for the seat….. our constitution says so…..
I wouldn’t miss it for anything. It’s going to be so much fun to watch Joe Biden look amazed at her answers. Lots of popcorn.
I like watching a good comedy !!
He’s ruining her chances to become President. She ain’t giving it up.
Nope. Her eyes make me think of Star Trek.
She (Palin) would shoot him, gut him, and mount him in the den.
Well, they wanted Biden to agree to pre-screened questions, so why not just call it an “interview”?
Here’s what We need to do in the Last Five Weeks:
1 – Biden win the Debate on Thursday
2 – Spend the last month Making Certain We change-out All the Republicans
It’s Their Economy – It’s time for the Goopers to Own its Failure!
Let’s not hold back!
67 Senate Seats is Do-able!
300 House Seats is Possible!
Its time to Take America Back!
Alien or human?
hoping to start the new year right with a better sleep schedule, less pain and mor joy.
So I wish you a joyous good evening and L’Shanah Tovah if yo are als lookin to begin a sweet new year,
The problem in congress seems to be that the rank-and-file non-country-club Republican congressmen don’t realize that Reaganomics was just a line of shit to make the rich richer. There waiting for the “unseen hand” to come and save us.
I just watched the Gotcha-McCain-Palin-Couric interview. They are in really big trouble when Katie makes them look stupid.
They will undoubtedly accuse him of rampant sexism and elitism if he says no.
That one episode when something took over a character and his eyes sorta looked glazed and strange. Gary Lockhart? – was that his name?
Nite TB!
Well he’s kind of helping her along, but that train wreck is all hers. It’s the first time I’ve enjoyed watching a slow train run off the track.
Well, they wanted Biden to agree to pre-screened questions, so why not just call it an “interview”?
Whuh? and Rahm said no? He must not have understood the question, ’cause he gave up on everything else, including having a *debate*.
No cross-talk, no candidates asking questions of each other – just short questions and answers.
She’ll still fuck it up.
L’Shanah Tovah to you as well, Betsy. Sleep well.
Methinks, McCain is projecting impulse of his onto others.
No, they make themselves look stupid, Couric just provides them the opportunity to shine.
Make Couric the moderator and Palin will still look stupid.
What’s a non-country club Republican I never heard of such a thing!
You could make a cigar store Indian the moderator and Palin would look stupid.
Neither of these two thugs are human. Insane’s behavior today putting the blame for the bailout on Obama proves it… WDC needs to be purged of non-humans :)
Palin for Moderator.
Done.
Nite Betsy, sleep well.
Really? He did not agree, for sure?
“I said thanks, but no thanks, to the vice-presidential candidate debate. If we want to have a debate, we’ll do it among ourselves.”
S.P.
She’s dumber than a box full of rocks!!
Methinks, McCain is projecting impulse of his onto others.
See, that’s where I disagree with everyone else who says he’s continually changing.
He’s been a hypocrite since Day One of this campaign, and hasn’t missed a single day so far.
pain free sleep wishes and l’shanah tovah
New peterr
They floated it; the most they got from the Biden camp (which I think was too much) was a shorter Q&A and no follow-ups. How that qualifies as a debate is beyond me.
fresh peter upstairs
Time to go good night everyone!
He has been a hypocrite for more than 25 years without missing a beat.
WHAT…. no questions from the viewers……
My Questions for Palin…..
1. Name the last 5 books you have read
2. Name 5 websites you regularly read and why
Anyone else?
Night BB. Time for me to go as well. Take care and enjoy.
Please explain the separation of powers doctrine, the bill of rights, and the establishment clause. You have 2 minutes.
Duh. The establishment clause is part of the First Amendment.
Please explain the separation of powers doctrine and the bill of rights, including in particular the establishment clause. You have 2 minutes.
And no, you cannot use a lifeline.
Ah, those old (but not as old as McCain) movies! The photo of Gloria Swanson prompts this variation on the related dialog:
And “McCain boarded his Straight Talk Air charter plane, where he sat in front, separated from reporters by a brown curtain,” moves me to misremember:
I was just listening to a C-SPAN replay of today’s major speeches and post-vote press conferences. The Democrats said there was a deal and the Republicans were supposed to get at least 50% of their caucus to vote for the bill. The Republicans, perhaps Rep. Hensarling (R-Texas), said he wasn’t aware of any such deal.
Somebody is lying.
Also, one of the Republicans said it was John McCain who led them away from the table.
I’m thinking McCain convinced some Repubs to sabotage the bill without telling Boehner or Blunt, making liars out of them.
And for what? The crisis persists.
McCain didn’t want cross-aisle cooperation, as claims he aims for.
McCain didn’t want the bill to pass, since that would be a Dem win.
McCain doesn’t care if the economy blows up, as he’d blame it on Dems.
McCain is rolling the dice, hoping we don’t notice how bad he’s doing.
John McCain is stabbing other Republicans in the back and making them all liars, just like he is.
America needs real solutions to their problems and Republicans aren’t offering any that will have bipartisan support.
The way Republicans treated him he could go just to give ‘em the finger.
Sometimes it’s best to let people come to their own senses. If you push ‘em they resent it. On the other hand, the fun you can have making it rough for them isn’t easily passed over.
kewl
She can always go back to being President of Independent End-Times Alaska or President of the Alaska Moose lodge.
The ‘unseen hand’ remains unseen, so maybe we’d better solve our own problems. Right now all the grownups in the room appear to be Dems.