Posted on 07/08/2008 8:53:07 PM PDT by keepitreal
I was discussing pork in general, not specifically earmarks, which are nothing more than a type of pork. It’s all a waste of taxpayer money, no matter what you call it or how it comes to be put on the taxpayers’ charge card. And it’s all unConstitutional. I mean, honestly, however did the republic stumble along for 200+ years without a taxpayer-funded federal boxing commission?
McCain has cultivated an image of being fiscally perfect, a responsible crusader who would never lower himself to grub for money for the folks back home, but it is simply not true. In one form or another, McCain has toted plenty of bacon for his constituents just like the rest of the politicians, as his congressional history fully attests.
And you are a Navy Vet to boot. Who cares how how long it takes to defeat radical Islam?
Your point? I was discussing political reality, not my personal wishes for the direction of American policy. I’m a Navy vet and a trained analyst, fully capable of separating my feelings from my assessment of a situation, which, unfortunately makes me very different from the vast majority of Freepers, who can’t get their emotions out of the way for one second to look objectively at a situation. Instead, they waste bandwidth snarking at those who can.
Describe to me, specifically, how McCain keeps this promise to veto “any bill with wasteful spending” in it, with a veto-proof Dem majority in congress, incensed because they were yet again denied the White House. If he starts vetoing bills which then get overridden, one after another, he will be an impotent lame duck from day one. In order not to look completely powerless, he will have to compromise, and that means giving the Dems much of what they want. That is reality. Deal with it if you can. Attack me personally again, if you can’t.
And you took that as a personal attack?
Then explain what you mean. My original post had nothing to with my military service. It had to do with political reality and the fact that, as President, McCain will be dealing with a hostile congress the likes of which we have not seen. A hostile congress with veto-proof majorities. Under those circumstances, it was mendacious in the extreme for McCain to state that he will veto “EVERY bill with wasteful spending.” Every bill—his word, not mine.
Anybody with sense knows that isn’t going to happen, which is why 69% of the likely voters in Rasmussen’s survey didn’t believe him. When 69% of likely voters think a candidate is talking out his a*s to get elected, especially a candidate who’s built his reputation on “straight talk,” it isn’t good.
Doom and gloom worse case scenarios. I refuse to fill my mind with negative thoughts like more libs in Congress and the Senate. I prefer to believe that people will wake up.
Negative thinking tends to make one an asphalt engineer. An asphalt engineer sits on a— and finds fault.
And you assume that McCain would face a Congress worse then Bush. Well call Pelosi over the drilling. Her number is:
Pelosi’s phone # 202-225-4965
“I prefer to believe that people will wake up.”
And I prefer to deal with reality. We’ll see what Congress looks like on November 5th.
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