McCain Crafting Stimulus Plan to Rival Obama's (The honeymoon is over)

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[Maelstorm]

This is a promising sign. This is exactly what I wanted to see McCain do.

[traderrob6]

Shows he may be good for something after all. We’ll see.

[exnavy]

What I want to see McNutt do is take a long walk off a short pier.

[Captain Kirk]

Promising? What is more “promising” about higher deficits and more government boondogles (McCain style)? The Republicans should be pushing massive spending cuts, balanced budgets, and tax cuts. If conservatives buy this kind of Keynesian nonsense, they deserve to lose for another generation.

[sheana]

I don’t trust anything McCain does. He will screw us one way or the other in the ‘spirit of bipartisanship’......as always.

[Sarah Barracuda]

What took this guy so long. I don’t get it, he was for the stupid bailout in September, but against this one. Weren’t both stimulus packages full of pork

[TheZMan]

“I don’t trust anything McCain does. He will screw us one way or the other in the ‘spirit of bipartisanship’......as always.”

QFT

[exnavy]

Mcdipstick should be shot for treason.

[Tarpon]

I don’t trust anything McCain does. He will screw us one way or the other in the ‘spirit of bipartisanship’......as always.

Yep, I'm with you on this.

[DoughtyOne]

Good grief bud, there is no such thing as a sound stimulus plan. If McCain is going to devise one, it can’t be anything but bad.

John saved our asses with Campaign Finance Reform (NOT!), he saved our asses by running for president (NOT!), and now he wants to save them again with a bail out bill.

If you were drowning and had three fingers out of the water, McCain would hand you a lifebuoy, a fifty pound lifebuoy.

[Gaffer]

Outside of going away and retiring, the only thing I want McCain or any other so-called Republican to do is never vote FOR anything that comes up for a vote in Congress, period.

NOTHING that comes out of this triumvirate for the next four years is worth even wiping your ass with, let alone voting for it.

[rabscuttle385]

There already is an alternative stimulus plan, crafted by DeMint and presented at The Heritage Foundation.

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[Bernard]

An economic stimulus package should include provisions that would lower regulatory burdens on employers, and encourage a competitive environment for manufacturers in this country to compete with foreigners. In three years, the next TV you buy should be made in America. The next cellphone, the next ....

Government spending for economic stimulus is optional, or a contradiction in terms. I need to figure out which.

[I see my hands]

Forget Zero's honeymoon I want the divorce from McCain finalized.

[Darkwolf377]

disappointment that President Barack Obama has not negotiated with Republicans

How ironic will it be that the very quality that made many of us cringe over McCain--his fixation on "cooperation"--may end up helping us against Obama, who prattles on and on about working together but doesn't believe in it for a second.

[Captain Kirk]

"Republicans are not reluctant to spend money or to appropriate money to try to get the country moving again economically. We just see this legislation as not achieving that goal," he said.

Good???? This is the same kind of mentality that got us into this mess! The GOP needs to be calling for spending cuts and balanced budgets.....instead of yet more spending.

[northislander]

Well said Captain Kirk!

This is just more of the Hegelian distraction providing fodder for the political diatribe.

You have hit the nail on the head and should be congratulated for it.

Stay the course, keep your powder dry and your boots well oiled.

[John Jorsett]

At least this is better than him just signing on to the Obama plan, which is what I was expecting. We’ll see just how much garbage is in his version. Make it all tax cuts and I’m on board.

[Maelstorm]

I agree. I’m cautious. I’d really like to see McCain prove himself. I hope he follows through on this and it doesn’t become the ride to Washington part deux.

[TADSLOS]

What took this guy so long. I don’t get it, he was for the stupid bailout in September, but against this one. Weren’t both stimulus packages full of pork

But this one is not exclusively HIS bailout package. McCain wants some of the credit for bankrupting the nation, so he'll write his own bill, with the help of his liberal friends in the senate, of course.