Neither man was familiar with the details of the proposal being pressed by House conservatives, and up to the moment they departed for the White House yesterday afternoon, neither had seen any description beyond news reports.

Yeah, because how can you expect them to know anything about it? It’s not like they’re HIGH-RANKING FREAKING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS or anything.

Jeebus.

And by the way, other than ducking the debate, can anyone in the McCain camp explain exactly what McCain was hoping to achieve? Was he trying to rescue the Paulson plan? Was he trying to change parts of it? What parts? What did he want to replace them with?

Some pretty basic fucking questions that don’t seem to have been asked, let alone answered, in McCain’s three network TV interviews last night.

McCain said as late as Tuesday that he had not read even Paulson’s original plan which, you’ll recall, was all of three pages long.

only if you use a really big font.