Posted on 02/07/2009 6:48:27 AM PST by rabscuttle385
He built his reputation and ran for president as someone who would buck the GOP in favor of bipartisan cooperation. Now he's rallying opposition to the Democratic stimulus plan.
BY JANET HOOK
Reporting from Washington. Mac is back.
But now, Sen. John McCain is cutting a new profile -- one that is far more partisan than when he became so familiar to Americans months ago as the Republican nominee for president.
As a candidate, McCain cast himself as a uniter of the two parties, willing to buck his GOP colleagues and reach across the aisle to build compromises on immigration, campaign finance and other hot-button issues.
But this week, with Barack Obama in the White House and McCain back in Congress, the Arizona senator has played a prominent and uncompromising role in rallying Republican opposition to the Democratic majority and its stimulus plan.
McCain did not join the small group of centrists from both parties who worked this week to put together a compromise to let the stimulus bill move forward. Instead, he took to the floor and pushed a Republican alternative that was heavier on tax cuts and offered less government spending than President Obama wants.
McCain secured the support of every Republican. The Senate rejected the plan 57 to 40.
McCain has a long-standing reputation as an enemy of excessive spending. His opposition to pork-barrel politics puts him in sync with leaders of his party, who want to bolster a Republican image as the party of small government and fiscal responsibility.
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The only thing is, turns out they weren't strawberries at all. They were actually huckleberries.
“The only thing is, turns out they weren’t strawberries at all. They were actually huckleberries.”
that would be a lot funnier if it weren’t true. Credit Juan McCain for B. Husseion Obama in the White House. I still gag when I think about the chance he had to turn off this &*^*^ porkulus bill...
Two cheers for John McCain. I appreciate him doing the right thing now.
That he didn’t have the brains or balls to hold the line in October of last year makes me sick to my stomach now.
Way too little, several months too late.
Maybe he is jumping off the dem socialistic stim plan ship because he senses the people AND the media are turning ??....time will tell......but it does no harm to watch the rats and observe their behavior and learn
The one thing we do know.....Mccain ain't jumping because of principle!
I wouldn't go that far, "needing everything we can right now" re-elected an bunch of the same 'ole RINOs that are doing everything they can to help to help Obama finish the shoving the U.S. into socialism.
If the GOP (including McCain) grows a pair and actually starts defending the American way, I would be pleasantly surprised... but I'm not holding my breath!
To the extent you either didn't support or, worse yet, undermined McCain during the general election campaign, you can take part of the "credit' for what ensues during the next four years under Obama.
This makes him a constant danger to the Republic as he's amoral, ungrounded and undependable.
Save the tingles in the legs for someone else.
He's milked this foregone losing cause to the max......and gained nothing except publicity for himself.
Leni
There you go again.
Ping
Oh please, do we have to start listing McCain's great anti-GOP achievements again?, looks like some forgot already!
He's a self-centered "wanna-be moderate" who helped to elect Obama...
Currently, 98.6% (216 out of 219) House/Senate Republicans are opposing Obama's porkulus bill.
Is that a big enough "pair"?
“To the extent you either didn’t support or, worse yet, undermined McCain during the general election campaign,”
You mean it was US that told him to suspend the campaign and curl up in the fetal position? Read the post again...
I quote YOU in my response.
Duh.
...says one of McCain's groin leech cheerleaders and Freeper hit list manager par excellence.
Yes... and I am completely amazed as is 100% of the GOP and most Conservative Americans!
Couldn't have said it better!
The GOP will demonstrate that they have grown "a pair" when they do something to punish Specter, Snowe, and Collins for their anti-GOP votes and agenda.
“I quote YOU in my response. Duh.”
Duh indeed. You quoted HALF of what I said. You quote according to your wit, I suppose.
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