Posted on 07/28/2008 7:52:26 AM PDT by Crazieman
ABC News' Mary Bruce reports: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blamed Wall Street this weekend for the failing economy. "I think that Wall Street is the villain in the things that happened in the subprime lending crisis and other areas where investigations and possible prosecution is going on," McCain said in an exclusive "This Week" interview with George Stephanopoulos.
McCain also placed responsibility on a "gridlocked" Congress. "I also think that Congress is at fault. We didnt restrain spending. Spending got completely out of control," he said.
When asked about Congress' progress in passing the housing bill, McCain said he would have voted for the legislation, but noted, "I also see, again, the influence of special interests." When pressed about why he would support it, McCain explained, "its better than nothing."
"I think there was a better way to do it. And I think the special interests probably played a role in the shaping of that legislation," he said.
McCain reluctantly offered support for the controversial provision that would enable federal aid for faltering private institutions, such as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. "We reached such a situation that, if these institutions failed, the impact on millions of innocent Americans could be very severe," he said. He noted, however, that "in the case of Fannie and Freddie, we should stop their lobbying activities. We should eliminate the pay and bonuses that these people rake in."
McCain agreed with Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., supporter Robert Reich who, along with Republican columnist George Will, has proposed that executives at institutions receiving government guarantees should receive government salaries. "That's exactly right," McCain said.
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“The only villian to the extent there is one is the appraiser and or Realtor.”
Nope the borrower for shear stupidity. The appraiser and realtor made out.
“HA! I said a while ago McCain had it in for Wall Street but no one believed me.”
It’s because he is stupid.
I have yet to encounter anyone who will be voting FOR McCain. Scores of people who will be voting AGAINST Obama, certainly.
Unfortunately, McCain will only see these votes as 100% fanatical support for HIM. (and all his reach-across-the-aisle, bipartisan, maverick, liberal ideas)
We really need a way to vote against a candidate. We can vote against a proposition or an initiative, sometimes they'll even let us vote against a judge, but politicians? You can only vote FOR politicians.
You are right about that! The only hope is to keep your elected Senators and Congressman responisble in holding McCain's feet to the fire. I am fortunate in that I have Conservative Senators and Congressman.
Today on Fox it was described as "normal summer haze, not pollution".
*sigh*
Him. And us.
Last time we got burgled they came in though the unlocked front door.
We feel much safer now that we sometimes lock the front door.
“Nope the borrower for shear stupidity. The appraiser and realtor made out.”
Stupidity doesn’t make a villain. People who collude to scam the system does.
So I guess you consider yourself as a conservative Republican..."in the Theodore Roosevelt mold" also? Figures.
McCain should have gone to jail because of his involvement in the Keating five scandal. Go ahead and vote for your crooked gigolo.
I think you're being intentionally disingenuous. I'm not saying anything about believing that CO2 emissions are actually a problem. I have posted this over and over again to show people that greenhouse warming is baloney. The point I am making here is that John McCain believes in Global Warming even more strongly than Algore and he has done more than any other politician to put America under the thumb of the UN and the enviro-weenies. He is the author of the original Cap & Trade legislation McCain/Lieberman.
McCain planning climate change tour
McCain's Letter (McCain aligns with Global Enviro activists)
The Turning Point on Global Warming (McCain and Lieberman Op-Ed Alert)
Climate bill sets stage for debate (Sens. McCain, Obama, and Lieberman join forces)
McCain: Global warming is fact, must be addressed [hurl alert]
McCain Sides With Leading Dems on Global Warming (NH voter reminder ALERT
EIA's Analysis of the Lieberman-McCain Climate Change Bill Human Events
McCain's Nose-Under-the-Tent Strategy - McCain's "Climate Stewardship Act" (S. 139), co-sponsored with Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.)
Kyoto Through the Back Door? A Debate on the Lieberman McCain Climate Stewardship Act - Heritage Foundation
Promising Vote on Global Warming - "But Mr. McCain, as we know, does not give up easily. ... He promises to be just as tenacious on this issue."
I get the feeling that you like the Cap & Trade plan from your persistent counter-arguments. That makes you the Algore fan.
LOL No, that's because they used to allow aluminum house wiring. YOU need to talk to a fireman.
Yeah, I lived through it too. That is totally irrelevant to anything I have said.
Really??? No kidding??? That's what I already said.
Except I was only talking about increases in U.S. population and emissions which is what Cap & Trade is about.
Most of the time it's democrats making such idiotic and stupid remarks. As a matter of fact, this has to rank in the top 20 of the most stupid remarks I've ever heard a politician speak.
>>That is totally irrelevant to anything I have said.
Well, maybe what you’ve said is irrelevant to the observable truth - Global Warming kool-aid.
Cap & Trade is a facade; a lie. It’s a dialectic construct - a Luciferian conflict created for the purpose of implementing the Luciferian solution to the conflict.
It’s a wall constructed specifically for you to bash your brains out against.
Instead of doing that...
Focus on the intent of the writers of the Declaration - “To Secure These Rights” - and the wall will lose its foundation, and topple on its own.
I understand you now. Increase your meds. ;^)
>>Drill or get off the Hill.
British Petroleum is the largest producer of oil in the United States of America.
Do you understand that, Quisling?
>>I didnt say pollution. I said emissions.
NewSpeak dictionary, 2008 edition?
Doubleplussungood.
Sadly my question is answered as to whether or not McCain REALLY is a fiscal conservative. What a fraud!
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