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Posted on 04/01/2009 8:13:58 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Republican leaders in the Senate are clashing with John McCain, their party’s 2008 presidential nominee. He wants to offer an alternative to the Democratic budget and they don’t.
The behind-the-scenes battle is part of a larger split in the Republican Party.
Some in the GOP believe their best strategy is to resist President Obama’s agenda and take carefully chosen shots through amendments they all agree on; others want the party to do more to demonstrate how a Republican imprint would be different.
As Congress works on setting broad budget caps for fiscal 2010, McCain appears to be in the minority among Republicans, most of whom seem unwilling to stand behind a full-size alternative to the Democrats’ budget (S Con Res 13).
(Excerpt) Read more at cqpolitics.com ...
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‘McCain appears to be in the minority among Republicans’
As his 37% Republican vote in the primaries last year proved conclusively.
A party with no cajones can not produce viable results. The GOP has flatlined. No life left in it I fear.
The only way to battle the Obamabots is 100% intolerance of everything they propose.
If we refuse to compromise, they will eventually have to give in.
Based on what I’ve seen in the past year, I no longer trust ANYONE in Washington DC to do what’s best for our country.
We’ve been sold out to foreign powers and special interests.
“...take carefully chosen shots through amendments they all agree on; others want the party to do more to demonstrate how a Republican imprint would be different...”
why not both??
These moron fools had better get their COLLECTIVE ACT together. That has been one of their biggest weaknesses -— LACK OF ORGANIZATION AND LEADERSHIP.
They had better develop a party line that extends all the way to 2012 and stick to it. That should not be difficult to do, given what America is going to have to tolerate and survive through for four years. IMHO, Americans will long for the protection of the Constitution, their God-given freedoms, and to be free of oppressive tyranny and taxation by 2012. The GOP would do well to make use of that simple, and plain to see, scenario.
But none of them want to fight the dem's tooth and nail over every bill that goes against conservative principals.
Lets make a deal is the new rule
I wish McCain would STFU!
I AGREE WITH McCAIN ON THIS!
I'm tired of the Repubs not having an alternative---and being accused of just saying, "No."
I"m hearing on FX News right now that the Repubs are issuing an alternative.
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P. J. O'Rourke 
This one is an April Fools I hope. Juan needs to go away.
I wish this idiot would get voted out and then his daughter who can’t get a boyfriend will disappear for good.
When are the likes of him going to realise that being to the left does not win elections nor is it popular.
He needs to get out of the way and after the way he treated Sarah even the other day of not saying he would back her in an election is disgusting
“Buchanan said McCain’s alternative would focus on spending cuts”
Who here would have a problem with that?
“I never thought I’d say this-—
I AGREE WITH McCAIN ON THIS!”
Ditto. It appears many didn’t bother to read the article before they commented.
Will someone tell this dud he needs to just go away and retire?
I agree with lonestar. This is pretty sad...
“Historically the way this has happened is the party in the minority has not offered a budget. Traditionally. the party in the minority has offered a series of amendments to try to improve the majority’s budget. and that’s the tack we have taken this year,” Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the top Budget Committee Republican, said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “That seems like a more logical tack to me because it is a more bipartisan approach.”“They won the election, so they get to draft the budget,” agreed Sen. Jon Kyl , the Republican whip and McCain’s colleague in the Arizona delegation.
That view appears to have majority support, a dynamic demonstrated to McCain at a private lunch Tuesday. Afterwards, McCain was still not sure whether he would try to offer a full-sized alternative.
One caveat, though. If they drafted a whole new budget; for the budget to be anything acceptable to us it most certainly would NOT include any McLame proposals.
I seldom, if ever, agree with McCain, but he’s right on this. I just watched Paul Ryan on TV detail a House alternative. The Senate GOP needs to do likewise.
DO THESE GUYS HAVE ANY CORE PRINCIPLES. QUIT PLAYING POLITICS AND STAND FOR SOMETHING!
why not both??
Don't be ridiculous that would make too much sense. Anyhow this thread is not about that. It's about bashing McCain or whining about the Republican party or both.
Whiney self-flagellating defeatist Freepers make me sick.
“So John ... I understand you’re having all four wisdom teeth pulled tomorrow.” Bob Dole, former senator
“That’s right Bob.” Senator John McCain (R/D)
“Bob Dole says that you should take one or two of these little blue Viagra pills as soon as you sit down in the chair.” Bob Dole
“Why would I do that, Bob?” John McCain (?)
“It may give you something to hold on to ....” Bob Dole
It's sad that conservatives are so mad at McCain that they can't even admit when he's right. And this time he is right.
The Republicans will NEVER win back control by taking "pot shots" at Obama (which is what those that are opposing McCain want to do.)
Newt took back congress in 1994 by presenting a comprehensive plan of what the Republicans would do if they regained power (the contract with America.) That is exactly the same thing we should be doing now (and what McCain is advocating.)
I'm fed up with all of them!
Depends on what McCain is going to bend over backwards to give the Democrats, Melinda.
I’ve learned not to trust McCain as far as I could throw him.
A broad Republican program should be advocated and not a McCain/Senate Budget versus a Republican House Budget with neither getting full voice.
McCain’s time has passed to be the Republican conservative voice. For the past thirteen years he has been the consumate backroom deal making pragmatist. He was more covetous of office than he was of principled party victory with unity.
It is time for a legislative leader to gain his caucus’s confidence in both houses and then articulate a broad agenda. Alas it is past time. To present such an agenda it would have to have already been written and vouched for by enough to insure a repeated mantra.
McCain is wanting to display leadership when he has spent fifteen years building his record as a maverick pragmatist.
The Republicans are about to get steamrolled (again) by Democrats who don't want or need their support anyway. They might as well offer a real budget based on real dollars as opposed to the phony one the Democrats are concocting. But that would mean actually taking a stand on something and the timid little mice that run the GOP are too busy cowering from the Fat Cats on Capitol Hill to actually take a chance on anything these days. Pathetic.
Publish a full budget then amend it in if you can.
Be proactive show the country what you want and can do.......unless what you really want is to play ball with this silent coup.
McCain Battles Party Leaders on Budget Plan
I’m glad to read that McCain is not a party leader.
It appears many didn’t bother to read the article before they commented.
I wonder if McCain read the McCain-Finegold bill before he endorsed it. It sure came back to bite him in the butt during the campaign.
Hate to say ti, but he might be right.
If we’re going to diss the Obama budget, we ought to say what’s wrong with it and offer an alternative.
Even if we know we’re just going to be steamrollered.
As his 37% Republican vote in the primaries last year proved conclusively.
LOL! Thanks very much!
My pleasure. I’m not going to forget we let airhead Moderates dictate how the last election cycle would go, and I will keep pointing out they lead us to where we are today, so we don’t make THAT MISTAKE in 2010 with the congressional and Senate races, let alone in 2012.
So where is the beef? The title says one thing but in the article we are told something totally different. At least whatever is going on lord McCain did manage to get some 'press'. Now quite Weary King but better than a total blackout.
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