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...emergency package passed had barely any sway with a Congress seemingly paralyzed by fear of the impending elections. There was that White House meeting a week ago, which some thought would be a photo op with presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain to announce a bipartisan deal, but which turned ugly as House Republican leaders balked at an arrangement worked out with the Administration and Senate Republicans. The bill was renegotiated over the weekend, expanding Congress's oversight of how the money would be spent, putting some limits on executive compensation and removing some Democratic priorities that angered Republicans...
...absolute power to help his former Wall Street colleagues; his public warnings that disaster was imminent but that the evidence had to remain secret were reminiscent of antiterrorism officials who raised the threat level to orange but refused to tell us why. Even the old claim of a rare bipartisan agreement didn't move the needle, chiefly because the approval rating of Congress has drooped to the teens...
...Republican voted against the bill because of her speech--as some GOP leaders believe was the case--it would take partisan sensitivity to ridiculous new lows. While it's true that the Democrats could have passed the measure themselves, it was an Administration bill, moderated through a series of bipartisan compromises. And it was striking to see House Republicans distancing themselves from Bush now that the time had come to clean up the mess, because for eight years they've been his most loyal supporters on the economy, on Iraq, on just about everything except his efforts to rein...
...shared stage that McCain was "absolutely right." On its face, the spot seemed like damaging proof that Obama is a wishy-washy follower, not a clear leader. But both Democratic and Republican strategists were puzzled. Why was the campaign cutting a spot that undermined the claim that McCain invites bipartisan agreement? Do they now suddenly scorn consensus? "They got the tactic right, but the message was off," observes one Republican campaign consultant. An Obama spokesman, Tommy Vietor, described the YouTube spot more succinctly. "It helped us," he said...
...agreement that pretty much everyone hates may make him wonder if action is overrated, especially after his campaign's self-congratulatory statements ended up being premature. Even with stakes higher than they've been for any vote in modern history, McCain still could not deliver his team for a bipartisan deal; even his own state's Representatives said...