While the quote from Douglas Holtz-Eakin about McCain inventing the blackberry was pretty funny, it kind of sucks that everyone ignored the rest of the economic discussion to just focus on that.

NYT's Michael Cooper gets momentarily distracted, but in a surprising fit of journalism decides to also report what McCain plans to do in relation to the Wall Street crisis.

Not surprisingly, Holtz-Eakin lists a bunch of general woes and presents quentessential bogey men - mostly caused by McCain policy.  The final sentence is a killer though:

But Mr. Holtz-Eakin did not provide specifics. “I think that the moment when we write down a specific plan is the moment we send legislation out from a McCain administration to Congress,’’ he said. “That’s the moment that happens.’’

So essentially, they are saying the only way to find out how they would solve the crisis is to put them in charge and see what the hell they do!  And they figure to start working on it sometime around Jan 15th, 2009?

That bothers me way more than any blackberry gaffe!