is that Congressional leaders had a new motive to come to some agreement - Democrats did not want to give McCain political credit for brokering a deal, and Republicans did not want to be seen as "steamrolled"... So they decided to get serious... And the MSM insists on giving MCCain no credit at all...
I suspect without McCain's action, the Democrat's leaders would not have been so willing... http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-fi-bailout26-2008sep26,0,32401.story >>> Democrats had hoped to reach a framework agreement with Republicans before >>> the White House meeting this afternoon, which would rob McCain of an >>> opportunity to claim credit for the deal. The Arizona senator suspended his >>> presidential campaign to fly back to Washington to work on the package. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
