"Bwaaa-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaa! Stop! You're killing me!"
Posted on 01/25/2009 6:53:47 PM PST by SeekAndFind
John McCain hasn’t exactly demonstrated a desire to lead the GOP after his loss to Barack Obama in November. Indeed, he has shown more interest in scolding Republicans for their opposition to Obama and demanded that the party cooperate with Obama’s new policies and appointees, even where serious ethical questions exist. That makes his sudden opposition to Obama’s stimulus plan rather surprising:
President Barack Obama dispatched his top economic adviser and vice president Sunday to relentlessly press their sales pitch for an $825 billion stimulus package to halt the U.S. economic slide, as the plan came under more fire from Republican leaders.
Sen. John McCain, Obama’s opponent in the November presidential contest, said he did not believe the stimulus package did enough to create jobs.
“There have to be major rewrites if we want to stimulate the economy… . As it stands now I can’t vote for it,” McCain said on Fox television.
He also continued a theme from his campaign, declaring that the former Bush administration tax cuts, that were particularly beneficial to high-earning Americans, should be made permanent. The measure expires next year and Obama has said he will not seek their renewal.
I’m stunned. Not because McCain’s wrong — he’s at least leaning towards the right policy here — but because he’s actually offering some opposition to Obama, and on economics to boot. Had McCain been able to articulate the problems of government-stimulus spending during the election, McCain might have been able to make the race a little closer.
Of course, McCain isn’t opposing government-stimulus spending in general. He’s opposing this particular plan, which means that McCain will support massive government spending as long as it creates jobs more quickly than 2011, which is when the CBO foresees most of the impact arriving. If the Democrats shift some of the spending towards 2009-10 and can demonstrate some actual job creation out of it, McCain presumably will be back on board.
Nancy Pelosi has a suggestion:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said she could envision more money for the financial sector so long as the government, on behalf of taxpayers, takes an ownership stake in banks that receive the money. She mentioned no dollar figure.
She refused to use the term “nationalization” when referring to additional rescue dollars.
Well, we mustn’t use accurate language when discussing the Obama/Reid/Pelosi plan to change the American private markets into government programs. That would be partisan, and we can’t have that.
Noooooooo!
Or it could be that he’s pretty sure it will pass without him anyway.
Stop jacking us around. Let him and his fellow RATS get it over with so people can see for themselves just who's to blame for the ensuing catastrophe.
“Shocker: McCain might oppose Obama on stimulus”
You mean that he might stop kissing Obama’s ass long enough to vote AGAINST him on something? I ain’t buyin’ it.
Any truth to the figure that, as proposed, the “stimulus” will cost us $275,000 per PROJECTED job?
This is madness.
Anyone who hitches their wagon to McCain’s star in 2009 gets what they deserve.
"Bwaaa-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaa! Stop! You're killing me!"
Never know what McCain is going to do. He sure ran to support the $750 billion bailout during the election
I wish Mc Juan would just go away .... maybe to Mexico for the rest of his term
had he opposed the bail out in Sept he’d now be called “Mr. President”.
McCain’s #1 campaign promise at every stop was to make earmarks and their authors famous if elected President. He could go a long way to repairing his anti-conservative reputation by being very vocal about opposing this trillion dollar debacle. But, i know ... i’m dreaming again.
I saw this on FNC he looks committed. Encouraging!
It would be party suicide to support this dem plan. Obama visits republicans on Monday to pitch that case, but he cant control Pelosi, fortunately(this is how Pelosi is good for us, being a nutcase) .(WE DONT WANT A DEAL AT ALL!)
What’s the point, Mac? Your time is over.
I’m not shocked. I sincerely believe McCain has a form of oppositional defiant disorder.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
What is it?
ODD is a psychiatric disorder that is really just the far end of the
stubbornness spectrum. The line that divides being just difficult and
stubborn from ODD is a set of diagnostic criteria. The criteria for ODD
are:
A pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior lasting at least
six months during which four or more of the following are present:
1. Often loses temper
2. often argues with adults
3. often actively defies or refuses to comply with adults’
requests or rules
4. often deliberately annoys people
5. often blames others for his or her mistakes or
misbehavior
6. is often touchy or easily annoyed by others
7. is often angry and resentful
8. is often spiteful and vindictive
The disturbance in behavior causes clinically significant impairment in
social, academic, or occupational functioning.
How often is “often”?
All of the criteria above include the word “often”. But what exactly
does that mean? Recent studies have shown that these behaviors
occur to a varying degree in all children. These researchers have found
that the “often” is best solved by the following criteria.
Has occurred at all during the last three months-
8. is spiteful and vindictive
5. blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior
Occurs at least twice a week
6. is touchy or easily annoyed by others
1. loses temper
2. argues with adults
3. actively defies or refuses to comply with adults’ requests or
rules
Occurs at least four times per week
7. is angry and resentful
4. deliberately annoys people
That said if he thinks this will win him any support among conservativees, he’s crazier than I even imagined.
Not really. All it means is that McCain wants something in return for his support. McCain is a sanctimonious prick who likes to pretend he's somehow better than all the other crooks in Washington, when he's worse than many.
I really don't know what all the fuss is over Blago. "Pay for play" is the way the game has been played in DC and our state capitols for generations. You grease my skids, I'll grease yours, and we'll all get what we want. Legalized bribery, brought to you by the folks who create the legislation and get to play such games with the money they extort from the taxpayers.
With trillions of dollars out there sloshing around like chum before sharks, why would anyone be surprised about pay-for-play feeding frenzies among politicos and other shady characters?
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