What Do These Two McCain Acolytes Have In Common?

by: huntsu

Mon Sep 29, 2008 at 04:23:30 PM EDT

Come on, folks!  This is a contest, and the winner gets 500 Blue Jersey Points you can spend on extra diaries and comment ratings!   We'll even throw in a third McCain top staffer, Mike DuHaime, to make it easier.  What do these THREE yahoos have in common?

Yesterday and today the McCain camp was taking credit for getting the bailout passed, having delivered the House GOP votes needed to get the bill on to the Senate.  Needless to day, McCain obviously didn't do that because the bill failed.

Here are two spokespeople for John McCain, both very high level  advisers, claiming credit where it was not due for their man.  Besides being terrible wrong, can anyone tell us what they have in common?

But at almost the same time, McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt was saying on NBC?s ?Meet the Press?: ?What Sen. McCain was able to do ? was to help get all of the parties to the table. There had been announcements by Senate leaders saying that a deal had been reached earlier in the week. There were no votes for that deal.

?Sen. McCain knew time was short and he came back, he listened and he helped put together the framework of getting everybody to the table, which was necessary to produce a package to avoid a financial catastrophe for this country.?

On Monday morning, McCain campaign communications director Jill Hazelbaker said on Fox News that the deal would not have happened ?without Sen. McCain.?

?Sen. McCain interrupted his campaign, suspended his campaign activity to come back to Washington to get Republicans around a table,? Hazelbaker said. ?Without Sen. McCain, House Republicans would not have appointed a negotiator, which would not have moved this bill forward.

?It?s really Sen. McCain who got all parties around a table to hammer out a deal that hopefully is in the best interests of the American taxpayer.?

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