Another John McCain lie: “I came back because I wasn’t going to phone it in.”
John McCain today on This Week with with George Stephanopoulos being asked about how helpful he was in the bailout negotiations after he “suspended” his campaign and returned to Washington:
STEPHANOPOULOS: So what role did you play? How were you helpful, do you believe, in the process?
MCCAIN: I will let you and others be the judge of that. I did the best that I could. I came back because I wasn’t going to phone it in.
Yep, he wasn’t going to phone it in, except for yesterday when he ... phoned it in:
After interrupting his presidential campaign to come back to Washington on Thursday morning to try to push forward a $700 billion bailout deal, Mr. McCain remained in his condominium in Arlington, Va., until 12:30 p.m. Saturday, when he emerged and made a one-minute trip in his motorcade to his campaign headquarters around the corner. [...]
By mid-afternoon, Mr. McCain’s closest adviser, Mark Salter, told reporters that Mr. McCain would not go to Capitol Hill on Saturday but would make phone calls to try to push the deal along. “He’s calling members on both sides, talking to people in the administration, helping out as he can,’’ Mr. Salter said.
[link via Think Progress]
UPDATE—ANOTHER LIE: CNN has more, including a pic of McCain phoning it in and a list of all of the people he phoned it in to. According to Mark Salter he was calling members of “both sides,” but the list the McCain camp provided is all Republicans:
According to the McCain campaign, the Republican nominee called President Bush, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Sen. Mitch McConnell , Sen. Judd Gregg, Sen. Jon Kyl, Leader Boehner, Rep. Blunt, Rep. Putnam, Rep. Cantor, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, Rep. Tom Davis, Rep. Chip Pickering, Rep. Heather Wilson, Rep. John Shadegg, Rep. Flake, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn on Saturday.
I guess it’s hard to reach across the aisle when you’re just phoning it in.
Posted by Kevin K. www.rumproast.com
Nuff said!
