The Laughingstocks of America Part 4: Talking Points Memo Does It Again

All credit to Talking Points Memo on this one, as always, for perfectly showing America how sad it is for John McCain right now.

Just read the whole article by premiere reporter Greg Sargent. I don't even need to highlight the quotes. All I can say for the synopsis is this: McCain took credit for having the Republicans seemingly on the verge of voting for the Bailout Plan (which was never, EVER the case) last Wednesday , and yet, they deferred not to do so today. After they bragged that becaius eof his leadership, they were going to sign this.

(MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, one of the bigger Republican jerks (and just a jerk in general) on the television even slammed McCain for today, labeling him and Nancy Pelosi (because he needed to blame the Democrats just to stick his foot in both sides in case) as the two biggest losers of the day. )

And that isn't even the juiciest (or most hypocritical) thing of beauty in this article.

Update: Bill Burton hit it on the head with this response to the nuttiness of the opposition, bringing up the "A" word for the first time really on the Obama/Biden side:

"This is a moment of national crisis, and today's inaction in Congress as well as the angry and hyper-partisan statement released by the McCain campaign are exactly why the American people are disgusted with Washington. Now is the time for Democrats and Republicans to join together and act in a way that prevents an economic catastrophe. Every American should be outraged that an era of greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street and Washington has led us to this point, but now that we are here, the stability of our entire economy depends on us taking immediate action to ease this crisis."

Angry, hyper-partisan, and sick. Okay, they didn't use the last one, but they could have.