Losing to someone who has no business running for President is hard work. But if anyone can do it - it's McCain!
Posted on 07/29/2008 8:38:06 AM PDT by pissant
My former next-door neighbor Ramesh Ponnuru of the National Review takes note of an apparent flip-flop by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on taxes.
In March 2007 McCain told Ponnuru the following:
Ponnuru: If you could get the Democrats to agree, or at least to come to the table on entitlements or on tax simplification, are those circumstances under which you’d be willing to accept a tax increase?
Sen. McCain: No; no.
PONNURU: No circumstances?
Sen. McCain: No. None. None.
But on This Week with George Stephanopoulos Sunday McCain sounded a bit different, saying of Social Security, "I am a supporter of sitting down together and putting everything on the table and coming up with an answer. So, there is nothing I would take off the table. There was nothing I would demand. I think that's the way that Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill did it. And that's what we have to do again...
"I have said and will say, I will say that everything has to be on the table, if we're going to reach a bipartisan agreement," McCain continued. "I've been in bipartisan negotiations before. I know how you reach a conclusion. We all have to sit down together with everything on the table."
Asked George: "So, that means payroll tax increases are on the table, as well?"
"There is nothing that's off the table," McCain responded. "I have my positions, and I'll articulate them. But nothing's off the table. I don't want tax increases. Of course I'd like to have young Americans have some of their money put into an account with their name on it. But that doesn't mean that anything is off the table."
Ronald Reagan formed a ‘committee’ to see how to shore up social security.
That committee recommended raising the salary cap on social security.
Ronald Reagan raised the salary cap on social security.
Will there be collective amnesia on this?
“Title - Read McCain’s Lips”
But...but he won’t raise taxes “as much” as Hussein. That makes him worth voting for and a conservative, right?
Right?
Are you saying that that POS McCain is in anyway on the same level as Reagan???
I agree completely.
Reagan also signed an amnesty for 2-3 million illegals (whiich he later regretted). Does that make a new McCain amnesty acceptable?
He has said he will extend heo Bush tax cuts. Do you know what the Bush tax cuts entail? Do you know how you are affected by the tax cuts if they expire? If not.... Yipes!
I’m sure he’ll slash taxes though. Just recall his enthusiasm for the Bush tax cuts. LOL
“No.”
“I will say that everything has to be on the table,
if we’re going to reach a bipartisan agreement”
I interpret that to mean that he will definitely not raise
payroll taxes, unless he and his supporters reach across
the aisle in the Senate steamroom and find that the GOP
will bend over for the soap-on-a-rope that he dropped.
Ooooops!
OTOH, maybe McCain will absolutely enjoy sending his base into apoplexia.
Losing to someone who has no business running for President is hard work. But if anyone can do it - it's McCain!
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How can McCain extend the tax cuts when that bill will never get out of the Congress. The Republicans have no excuse for this not being done after 2004. Does anyone remember if McCain was for or against making the tax cuts permanent when the Republicans had the power? I just don't believe him.
“Read my lips”
Juan “Liberal Moron” McQueeg is THE WORST GOP candidate of ALL TIME. Give this LOSER the hook.
This is the official McCain flip-flop. His advisor Carly Fiorina already told a Bloomberg reporter some time ago about his position on raising taxes in a "comprehensive" and "bipartisan" (AKA bend over for the Democrats) way.
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“Title - Read McCain’s Lips”
Which day? This guy needs to decide what he believes.
Must be his ‘stratergy’ ...keep the voters confused, they’ll vote for ya.
“Ronald Reagan formed a ‘committee’ to see how to shore up social security.
That committee recommended raising the salary cap on social security.
Ronald Reagan raised the salary cap on social security.
Will there be collective amnesia on this?”
Is Reagan running?
So another president screws up and that makes it A-okay for John McCain. Reagan was also dumb enough to sign an amnesty, but that mistake hasn’t phased McCain, has it?
Yes, McCain says he’ll extend the Bush Tax cuts. Why the hell did he vote against them in the first place?
Oh, right, it’s another day, another John.
The bill didn't contain stipulations for reduced spending.
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