Neither of them will be part of the meetings, as neither is a member of the relevant committee(s). If McCain wants to go back and vote, great, the senate will be glad to see him in person (and Obama too, to be fair). But McCain the deregulator as the white knight who should supervise the bailout? It's not working for me.

And in any case, he's got a jet--trying to postpone the debate is completely unnecessary and thus, I suspect, related to something else. Whether it's because he doesn't feel prepared, or because he's trying to put everything off a couple of weeks so he can squeeze out the VP debate and protect Palin from scrutiny is unclear, but it's not related to the bailout.