Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Bush's mouthpiece admits: They’ve been sitting on this plan

(h/t) Emptywheel at Firedoglake

Hidden in an article reporting that Cheney's going to go hunt up some support for the $700,000,000,000 bailout is this admission that the Bush Administration has been sitting on it for some time:

Fratto insisted that the plan was not slapped together and had been drawn up as a contingency over previous months and weeks by administration officials.

He acknowledged lawmakers were getting only days to peruse it, but he said this should be enough. [my emphasis]

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