Politico:...In an interview taped Friday on Capitol Hill, [John] McCain said his general-election opponent is “not changing the climate in Washington” as promised.
McCain said he has “not seen” a “public option,” or government plan, he could support.
“The co-ops remind us all of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” he told anchor John King. “And so I have not seen a public option that, in my view, meets the test of what would really not eventually lead to a government take over.”
King asked McCain if Obama has “failed the test he laid out at [an inaugural] dinner, to be truly bipartisan.”
“I'm afraid they have,” McCain replied. “And, look, they've got the votes. We understand that. They had the votes in the stimulus package, in the budget, in the omnibus, in the SCHIP [children’s health insurance], all this legislation. And they have picked off, sometimes, two or three Republicans.
Ok, so let's see if we can get this into some sort of logical framework; first, McCain says that Obama hasn't changed... Umm... McCain, I guess. This is a terrible, terrible failure on Obama's side.
Then, McCain says he won't support a public option, because it's a co-op (?) that's like Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac -- neither of which are actually co-ops and neither of which have been public for years. Again, this is Obama's fault.
Finally, Obama has failed the bipartisan test, because he keeps putting out ideas that the almost universally reactionary Republicans immediately label "the worst thing ever."
It's like he really believes that "bipartisan" means "do exactly what Republicans want." Seriously, are we supposed to believe that the GOP has been trying to meet anyone halfway here?
Yeah, that's not fitting into any kind of logical framework.
