Johnny's Time Out, Part 2

Josh Marshall on John McCain's "time out"...

...if you were living in the real world, if you were some hotshot young executive at a Fortune 500 company trying to rise in the ranks, and you pulled some whacked crap like this, it would probably get you blackballed permanently. People would think you were either deeply unreliable or maybe just had a screw loose. And yet here he is - is he kidding? He can't debate Barack Obama because he's got to go to Washington and save the economy? It's like the biggest "dog ate my homework" in history.

Unless he's on the Senate committee that is responsible for the hearings on this bail out, then McCain should stay away from D.C. The last thing the congress needs right now is a flailing presidential candidate in the way for a photo op.