Blunt talk: McCain ‘stopped the deal’ on financial crisis, Republican says

Sen. John McCain famously announced that he’d be suspending his campaign so he could focus on resolving the current financial crisis. While that may have been his intent, the opposite has happened, according to Missouri Republican Rep. Roy Blunt. He told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell:

“I do think that John McCain was very helpful in what he did. I saw him this morning, we’ve been talking with his staff. Clearly, yesterday, his position in that discussion yesterday was one that stopped a deal from, uh, finalizing that no House Republican, in my view, would’ve been for. Which means it probably wouldn’t have passed the House. Now, Democrats are in the majority, they can pass anything they want to without a single Republican vote. But they don’t seem to be willing to do that. I’m pleased we can have negotiations now that get us back to things that we think can protect the taxpayers better, create more options, are, frankly, be better understood in the country than the plan, than the path that we were on just a couple of days ago.”