Not content to leave the insanity enveloping the far right over ACORN, John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis today contended that McCain deliberately blew up the original bailout package because it contained money for ACORN:
"So we can actually say that in addition to saving taxpayers millions of dollars, and we're very happy that no more taxpayer dollars were added to the pile of money going to ACORN. Uh, by their own admission because, by the Democrats' own admission because John McCain came to town and blew that package up. Thank goodness."
Of course, after the original bailout plan failed, McCain blamed Obama, which sort of contrasts with the campaign's contention that Obama and ACORN are deeply connected. Not only that, but McCain attempted to take credit for the passage of the bill before it was passed, after which he blamed his rival for the bill's failure.
At any rate, for the campaign's new story to be true it would have to mean that McCain lied to the American people about doing his best to get the bailout passed, since he never indicated at the time that he would try to prevent the package from passing or his reasons behind doing so.
So either McCain is lying now, or he was lying when his campaign claimed that he had come to "show leadership" by making sure the first bill got passed. There's no way that both can be true.
--A. Serwer
