Conservative Donnybrook

Pretty good article over at WSJ with insider accounts of some key moments from the McCain and Obama campaigns. Here’s a good part: 

The next day, while conservative House Republicans maneuvered behind the scenes to block the bailout bill, Sen. McCain sat largely silent at a crisis summit at the White House. Afterward, Sen. Obama called his staff from his car: “I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said, according to several aides. “Some of the Republicans are clueless. Bush and I were trying to convince them.”

Ah, so the Transformational, Transcendent Candidate for Change and all that conspired with George W. Bush to rob the American people of $700 billion for the enrichment of wealthy Wall Street bankers. I’ll be darned!

Then there’s this:

Meanwhile, Sen. McCain was meeting with Wall Street supporters such as investor Henry Kravis, J.P. Morgan Chase Vice Chairman James B. Lee Jr. and Merrill Lynch Chief Executive John Thain, who told him the global credit markets could “seize up” without definitive action. Some chided the candidate for attacking all of Wall Street and suggesting financial CEOs shouldn’t make more than the president’s salary of $400,000.

You’ve been a very bad boy, McCain!

But McCain’s blustering about greed and executive salaries in the midst of a McCain-supported, epic, world-historical ripoff benefiting those same greedy Wall Street titans pretty much epitomizes the vacuity and hypocrisy of the McCain campaign.

It must be nice to have the Democratic nominee in one pocket, and the Republican nominee in the other. Good show, Wall Street!

Oh, and let me remind you once again that this was the most important election of our lifetimes.