Before McCain went to Washington, the Democrats were making deals (among themselves) with little regard to the other side of the aisle. McCain went to Washington, NOW the other side of the issue is being considered.
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Before McCain arrived, Reid and Pelosi had tried to sideline House Republicans, cutting them out of the discussions. The reasons for that are twofold, and quite plain. House Republicans are as a group more conservative than their Senate counterparts and had major reservations about signing onto a $700 billion bailout plan, regardless of the situation at hand. The second reason is that Pelosi didn’t need them, at least not at the time; she could force a vote in the House and carry the bill easily without them, and apparently had decided to do just that if Senate Republicans went along with it.
McCain’s arrival changed the calculus. The Democrats no longer had the ear of Senate Republicans, who waited to see what their new party leader would say. When he sided with Boehner, at least in terms of bringing him to the table and getting House Republican concerns addressed for real consensus, he forced Reid, Pelosi, and Paulson to talk to Boehner.
That’s why the snub of Bohner and the House GOP came as no accident. They still don’t need Boehner to win a vote in the House. Unfortunately, since McCain shone a light on Pelosi’s power play, they now need Boehner for political cover. That means they have to work towards a true consensus, not a Pelosi-Reid-Paulson plan that they can blame solely on George Bush in the final weeks before the election.
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