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McCain: stimulus bill has too much spending
AP ^ | 2009-02-02

Posted on 02/02/2009 5:59:58 AM PST by rabscuttle385

WASHINGTON -- Senator John McCain says there's too much unnecessary spending and too few tax cuts in the Obama administration's economic proposals to stimulate the economy.

The Arizona Republican and former presidential candidate also complains the plan has no "endgame."

Interviewed Monday on CBS's "The Early Show," McCain said that after the economy recovers the U.S. should "be on a path to a balanced budget."

Instead, he says, the Democrats' plan would burden future generations of Americans with the biggest budget deficit in history.

He says it's time for both parties to sit down and negotiate. He says the Democrats need to consider his party's concerns, especially on cutting taxes.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho2009; bhostimulus; economy; mcbama; mccain; mccainsinterference; mccaintruthfile; mcqueeg; pork; porkulus; rino; senate; stimulus; ussenate
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To: rabscuttle385

Democrats and Republicans: The two legs of the socialist beast.


41 posted on 02/02/2009 6:37:09 AM PST by EternalVigilance (Check our our little party at AIPNEWS.com...founded by FReepers and already the nation's 3rd largest)
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To: rabscuttle385

Exactly.


42 posted on 02/02/2009 6:37:09 AM PST by DManA
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To: rabscuttle385

Thank-you, Mr. Irrelevant.


43 posted on 02/02/2009 6:38:52 AM PST by mikeus_maximus (In matters of style, swim with the current.; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.-- Thomas J)
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To: DManA; rabscuttle385

Insanity is abandoning the most conservative, viable, alternatives in a series of elections, then bitching about the disaster which ensues.


44 posted on 02/02/2009 6:39:05 AM PST by Cedric
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To: Cedric

I held my nose and voted for McCain. Still it’s my fault he lost.


45 posted on 02/02/2009 6:43:43 AM PST by DManA
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To: cameraeye
"Shut up and go away! McCain was a wimp during the whole time and now he has something to say about the spending bills!"

Wow...such vitriol! Are you sure you meant for ME to be the recipient of your vitriolic sting? My question is quite harmless if you care to go back and look...

46 posted on 02/02/2009 6:45:09 AM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("Democrats: Seeking an easy life at someone else's expense for 150 years")
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To: Cedric; DManA
Insanity is abandoning the most conservative, viable, alternatives in a series of elections, then bitching about the disaster which ensues.

So what if Obama was the "most conservative" and "viable" candidate in an election? Would you vote for him?

You have no standards, Cedric. It's because of relativistic beliefs like yours that the Republican Party has allowed the leftists to drag it further and further leftward, into the abyss of Big Government, where it has been thoroughly gutted and disemboweled.

47 posted on 02/02/2009 6:45:25 AM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: DManA
Then, you are not among those who I am addressing in this discussion and I apologize for unfairly besmirching you.
48 posted on 02/02/2009 6:46:29 AM PST by Cedric
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To: rabscuttle385
So what if Obama was the "most conservative" and "viable" candidate in an election

Duh.

Quit spinnin', rabs. You wanted this poopy sandwich....

49 posted on 02/02/2009 6:49:40 AM PST by Cedric
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To: Cedric; BufordP; TADSLOS
You wanted this poopy sandwich....

No, Cedric, what I wanted was steak instead of RINO poo.

What I wanted was for the Republican Party to stop serving up sh*t and telling me to eat it with my bare hands.

Do you know what happens when you piss off your customer like that? The customer picks up the plate of poo and shoves it in your face. And...that's exactly what I did.

50 posted on 02/02/2009 6:52:24 AM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: DManA
I held my nose and voted for McCain. Still it’s my fault he lost.

Same here. Maybe we get our own list. LOL
51 posted on 02/02/2009 6:52:46 AM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: DManA

“I held my nose and voted for McCain. Still it’s my fault he lost.”

No, it’s NOT!

The reason McCain lost is because he has all the charisma of a rock, and even SO he might have won if he hadn’t muzzled Palin, said there was “nothing to fear” about Obama being in office and generally acted like an idiot with half his marbles missing.

The reason McCain lost is because he’s McCAIN.

I wish he had resigned his Senate seat to run for office - at least then we could have had the consolation of never having to hear from him again.


52 posted on 02/02/2009 6:53:33 AM PST by Pravious
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To: Cedric
If we purist had our way, we wouldn't have the wannabes in there just nibbling, we'd be running the show with some real conservatives.

The fact that we have wannabes in there "nibbling" is what we were against in the first place.

53 posted on 02/02/2009 6:55:03 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Obama says we should listen to the muzzies, but not to Rush)
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To: Cedric
I am happy that McCain at least had the opportunity to go on television and give a reasonable response to this boondoggle. It may not be exactly what everyone on this site wants, but it is a moderately conservative view point....too much spending and not enough tax cuts. We don't get much air time on these programs and at least this was an opportunity to explain why this porkalooza bill should be flamed, not each other.
54 posted on 02/02/2009 6:55:42 AM PST by madinmadtown (BO stinks..)
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To: rabscuttle385

He doesn’t know.


55 posted on 02/02/2009 6:57:11 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly

56 posted on 02/02/2009 6:58:16 AM PST by Right Brother
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To: Cedric

He failed utterly in his (idiotic) strategy of courting “moderates”. That is the insanity party elites keep repeating.


57 posted on 02/02/2009 6:59:20 AM PST by DManA
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To: Pravious

If he resigned his senate seat he would have become a lobbyist and ended up getting appointed to something by Zero.


58 posted on 02/02/2009 7:00:55 AM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: rabscuttle385
No, Cedric, what I wanted was steak instead of RINO poo.

Well put, there has to be a country western song in there somewhere :0)

59 posted on 02/02/2009 7:02:26 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Obama says we should listen to the muzzies, but not to Rush)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
If we purist had our way...we'd be running the show with some real conservatives.

That'd be nice.

But, conservatives gotta start winning more elections.

60 posted on 02/02/2009 7:02:48 AM PST by Cedric
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