Reasons for monarchy

Republicans and Democrats.

I am so sick of each side being unable to cooperate for even ten minutes.

McCain suspends his presidential campaign to go back to Washington and address the economic issues. Now the flurry of pundit hypothesizing...

Democrat punditry:

"This is obviously a thinly veiled political ploy?"

"Cancel the debate? What, can McCain not multitask? Because Presidents are never called upon to handle multiple things at once!"

Republican punditry:

"Oh this is noble. McCain is being a leader. He is showing this country what kind of President he would be!"

"He really stuck Obama here. McCain requests bi-partisanship, and Barack is forced to either follow a Republican's lead, or show himself unwilling to work with the other side."

"MaverickMaverickMaverickMaverickMaverickMaverick..."

Good Lord help us. We are staring down the barrel of the most serious economic catastrophes in the past half-century, and cannot stop posturing for one second. Really?

The fact is that both McCain and Obama are the de facto leaders of their parties. It seems almost overwhelmingly obvious that they both need to be in Washington right now. And working together. And making sure everyone else is working together.

At the moment I don't want to hear anything from an elected official but "we've all locked ourselves indoors and for the past 72 hours and survived on nothing but coffee and donuts. We banged our partisan heads together until we found a solution to this economic crisis that we believe will work. Thank you for your patience."