Opinion: What McCain Needs To Do Now

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John McCain and the New Reagan (Sarah Palin) can take the gloves off now that the non-issue issue created by Democrats has been dealt with. The Democrats had to invent an issue because the Iraq issue is no longer an issue. The Democrats were wrong about Iraq right after they had been right about Iraq. Now, the economy is their mantra. Good. They screwed it up and now McCain must expose them for it.

A theoretical McCain announcement could go something like this:

"I stayed away from making these partisan attacks, even though you lied ridiculously about me and your own attempts at 'reform.' I held back, because partisan attacks -- even truthful ones -- would harm our country and reduce the chances of getting a vital bill passed.

"Well, the bill is now passed. I put country first. You didn't, and you lied on top of that. And now -- only now that this crisis has been dealt with, to the extent we can -- I'm going to give you a bit of straight-talk about Fannie, Freddie, my attempts to reform it, and your attempts to block reform on behalf of your big donors and friends in ACORN."

Hopefully so. He is entirely capable of doing this seeing that he is known to unload on people before. We also already know that those responsible have been angered that they have been exposed. As much as I can hardly stand Bill O'Reilly, he had one of the more obviously responsible cretins on his show the other day. The guy blew up. I would imagine that he was looking for some duct tape.

I find it curious that through all of the "bail out" chatter, the one fellow that was absolutely outraged over Republicans trying to fix the mess the Democrats made, Barney Frank has been proclaimed as a Hero by Nancy Pelosi.

I await with anticipation the loosing of the hounds.