This is a major stunt.

Earlier this week you had John McCain saying we shouldn't rush into anything, we need to be prudent. But now it's suddenly such an urgent emergancy in his mind that it can only be fixed by both him and Obama joining their power rings on the floor of the Senate! Ludicrous.

What is really going on is that this crisis has been hurting McCain politically. So he is doing a "maverick" stunt to look decisive and like a man of action. But like everything else hs has done lately, it has backfired. It looks like he is ducking the debates for bogus political reasons. People know it is not up to these two senators to fix the problem. The people who are to fix it are working on it right now. Obama and McCain should be participating in their proper roles, which they can do from anywhere in the country. And they should return for the vote. It's not up to them to swoop in and save the day.

In fact the whole idea that McCain and Obama should be the ones to patch this up is more disruptive than anything. I was watching an interview a minute ago in which one commentator claimed that the Congress was near a deal today and could have passed something as early as this evening, but the McCain announcement threw a bomb into the whole deal. I don't know if that is true or not, but it seems like he is probably doing more harm than good.

It's absolutely BS on the part of McCain to say this is about suspending politics for the good of the country at a moment of crisis --- this is 100% about politics and the fact that he is getting hammered. This is an election --- there is no way to "suspend politics" for now. Everything either of these candidates does is seen through the prism of politics, and they both know it. Definitely the suggestion that they suspend politics for now is a political move.