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Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel

It actually says "postpone". And the Democrats aren't going to score any political points by suggesting that a SENATOR should go somewhere to talk on TV instead of say, participating in the consideration of and voting on one of the most important issues to come before the SENATE in years.

To make it out as a bad thing is idiotic.

Neither of the SENATORS has been acting in his role for about the last year. They've missed plenty while they've been out, and the American public seems to see through McCain's spin pretty well this time. This is a stall tactic, possibly so one of the debates will have to be eliminated (the VP one?). If they must go back to DC and vote, fine, vote and then debate. But the debate should go on as planned. Our future president should be able to juggle more than one issue at a time, and though the economy is in crisis, I see the first presidential debate as pretty damn important, too. The difference between the economy issue and the debates is that both senators' colleagues can handle the negotiations and votes without them (whichever resolution makes it through, it's going to be passed), but only the senators can debate. Anyway, I believe both men are being so nitpicked right now that I don't think either of them could ponder or speak honestly in hammering out a resolution without having to consider how it will play in the campaign, which makes them useless in my mind. They should stay the course with what they've BOTH been focused on for many months, which is campaigning and debating.