The President called the meeting.
Paulson called Graham and said he needed Republicans on board and McCain was the guy to get them together. So, McCain went.
It was presented that each party's leaders should be there to lead the discussions. At the meeting, all the Democrats deferred to Obama as the leader he is supposed to be, and he immediately ripped into Republicans.
It seems he missed the memo that this was to be a negotiation and 'smoothing out of details' type of meeting.
The meeting fell into disarray... Screaming, yelling. The President tried to regain control, but many of the Dems walked out.
Obama basically chaired the meeting and began with an attack!
It's been said that the meeting was a trap set by Democrats for McCain, and to show off Obama's brilliant negotiating skills.
Obama blew it! It was Obama that riled everyone up! His attacks caused the meeting to disintegrate! Some negotiator!
It has been reported that McCain said nothing in the meeting!
Dingy Harry Reid spins it as ridicule of the Republicans. Then suggests that all these bailout ideas were from Obama!
Does he think we're that stupid?!
Obama keeps blaming McCain for injecting ‘presidential politics’ into this ‘delicate issue’.
A negotiation session turned into an attack on Republicans... Just WOW!
Obama doesn’t have a clue!
If Obama was so influential, so ‘presidential’, why didn’t he actually take over the meeting and get to a solution!
Instead the Dems just blame McCain for injecting presidential politics. Weak.
Bailout talks in disarray
No mention of McCain blame in this article...
...Lawmakers bickered over competing counterproposals and hours of meetings between key lawmakers broke down without any progress late into the evening.
But shortly after 10 p.m., Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the lead House Democrat on the issue who had been in close talks with Paulson for days, accused Republicans of refusing to negotiate.
"At this point, we have absolutely no participation or cooperation from House Republicans," Frank said.
The next step was not clear late Thursday night. One thing seems certain: Lawmakers won't recess for the year on Friday, as originally planned. Instead, if they can't reach a deal in the next 24 hours, they're likely to work through the weekend.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., said the White House meeting was thrown off course when participants were blindsided by a new "core agreement" that emerged in the meeting that not many had seen before.
Nor here...
Though Sen. Chris Dodd implied that Sen. McCain sandbagged the rest of the negotiators by bringing up alternative proposals, McCain himself did not bring up those proposals, according to four independent sources briefed by four different principals inside the meeting, including two Republicans and two Democrats.
"McCain has not attacked the Paulson deal," said a third Republican who was briefed by McCain direclty.
"Unlike the [Democrats] in the [White House] meeting, he didn't raise his voice or cause a ruckus.
He is urging all sides to come together."Republicans like John Boehner brought up the concerns of House GOPers and McCain acknowledged hearing about their concerns.
And McCain, and staffers, did seek to gauge the level of support of the GOP working group's white paper. The Democrats were left with the impression that McCain endorsed the GOP efforts, but they concede that he did not raise them directly.
The fact is that Boehner doesn't have 100 votes from his conference -- 100 votes that Nancy Pelosi really wants.
And that's not McCain's fault.
So there it is. The elusive truth.
There never was a deal! The meeting was orchestrated to embarass McCain!
And the deal the Dems wanted sent tons of money to ACORN!
A commie , Obama organization!
Simply more spin from the left.
If they had a deal and it was such a great deal, why do they need the Republicans? The Democrats run Congress don't they? Just push the bill thru!
Liars! Democrats are Liars!
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