"Katrina-like":

Obama: McCain's Economic Crisis Response "Katrina-Like...Just Sorta Stood There"

Barack Obama rolls out a new line during a rally in Michigan on Sunday, saying John McCain's response to the financial meltdown was "Katrina-like":
Senator McCain just doesn't get it. He doesn't understand that the storm hitting Wall Street hit Main Street long ago. That's why his first response to the greatest financial meltdown in generations was a Katrina-like response.
Sort of stood there. Said the fundamentals of the economy are strong. That's why he's been shifting positions these last two weeks, looking for photo ops, trying to figure out what to say and what to do.

McCain Camp Can't Get Story Straight On Bailout...At Posh Hotel During Deal...

At the same time that Sen. John McCain was saying that he didn't deserve credit for getting an economic bailout package to the brink of completion, his campaign's chief strategist was arguing that the Senator played an integral role.
Appearing on Meet the Press, McCain aide Steve Schmidt offered a bound-to-be-disputed version of what happened this week.
"When Senator McCain came back to Washington, there had been no deal reached," he said. "What Senator McCain was able to do was to help bring all the parties to the table, including the House Republicans... he came back and he listened and he helped put together the framework of getting everybody to the table which was essential in getting the package [together]."
The remarks conflicted deeply both with contemporaneous testimony and what the Senator himself was declaring at the very same moment on ABC's This Week.