Did The President Just Interfere With A Presidential Election?

There’s no good reason for McCain to suspend his campaign, unless you view it from the what’s-good-for-McCain angle.

He’s declining in the polls. He’s old and he needs a rest (which bodes oh-so-well for a McCain presidency). Since the razzle-dazzle of the Palin fiasco seemed to work for a while with a stupid populace needing more Shiny-Shiny™ in their lives, he’s going for another one. The Republican caucus in Congress desperately needs to keep reminding people they matter.

He’s a coward. And he’s probably damn near the point where he’s about to have not enough of his soul left in his body to keep bartering with.

Cain didn’t bother to inform the Obama campaign about his plans before he announced it to the world. When Nancy Pfotenhauer was asked why McCain snubbed the Obama campaign (an honorable person would have done so—McCain is dishonorable), her reply, with unconvincing incredulity was along the lines of Do you really think it was a snub?

Seriously.

But last night when President Bush devoted a whole fourteen minutes to describing the financial system that so fucked up this country, he said,

There is a spirit of cooperation between Democrats and Republicans and between Congress and this administration. In that spirit, I’ve invited Senators McCain and Obama to join congressional leaders of both parties at the White House tomorrow to help speed our discussions toward a bipartisan bill.

Did the President just interfere with a Presidential Campaign?

Yes, he did.

He inserted himself into McCain’s “plan” in a ridiculous attempt to lend validation to McCain’s cowardly act.

Bush also make an attempt at relevancy for himself, more than suggesting that he had some stake in the bipartisan-ness of the whole thing. Mr. President? The Congress is led by Democrats. They’re setting the pace because that’s what a Majority does—unless it’s a Republican majority…then they just shut out Democrats and take out Contracts on America.

What are the punishments for interfering with a Federal Election? Probably nothing in this case, because they’re awfully (and I do mean awful-ly) good at letting themselves off the hook.