“Tomorrow morning, I will suspend my campaign and return to Washington after speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative.”

But I am sure you believe the Obama campaign when they cried firsties, so it’s not a surprise that you didn’t pay attention to McCain’s full statement.

FYI: Palin is not a sitting US Senator and is not involved in the passing/drafting of the bailout legislation.

McCain, Obama, and Biden, however, are being paid $160,000 a year to represent their constituents. You’d thinking actually doing the job they are being paid for might be of some importance… If Obama and Biden don’t see the need to get to work, maybe they should step down from their seats so their Governers can appoint someone to go to Washington and represent their state.

We are all going to have to live with this bailout for generations. The next president is going to have to execute. Yet, you think they shouldn’t have a say in its drafting…. ridiculous.

Although I certainly don’t agree with McCain on this bailout, at least he’s willing to lead and not cower by not taking a stance on it one way or another.

Obama, Your Coward for 2008.

1) It will politicize the process, bringing more swarms of attention to a sensitive issue that I’m sure lawmakers would rather hammer out without the injection of presidential politics.

2) Are they going to help craft the already crafted Dodd legislation? Are they going to participate in the debates on the senate floor? Do they think by participating in the debates they will make a healthy contribution to the Senate’s understanding of the issue? No, the legislation has already for the most part been crafted, if they are going to debate on the senate floor I think they would benefit more by debating in a more public realm, the senators will hear their views as well as more of the general public. I seriously doubt many Senator’s really care what McCain or Obama think on the issue over what their own policy advisers and the Senate Finance Committee and their constituents have to say.

3) They can easily return for a vote on the Dodd/Paulson issue without spending days in Washington.

In economists lingo, the opportunity cost is very high for McCain and Obama skipping the debate and spending their time in Washington. I think the entire nation will derive more benefit from these two hearing them debate on whatever sphere they decide to debate in than from having them debate idly in the Senate chambers.