Posted on 09/10/2009 1:39:12 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
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SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: Well, I thought the president is eloquent. I thought he had a lot of passion.
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MCCAIN: I hope he gets a bill. I hope we can sit down together and do the things that all of us agree on. And there are a number of things that are -- that we can agree on. And I think the American people, obviously, want that.
I don't know what the administration and the Democrats will insist on. Facts are stubborn things. The bills so far have had no bipartisanship associated with it. They were drawn up by Democrats and Republican amendments were rejected. So there's going to have to be an entire change of atmosphere here in order for us to get something done in a bipartisan basis.
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L. KING: But you don't believe there will be a death panel, though, do you?
MCCAIN: No. I do know that portions of the House bill were removed -- or one of the bills that's winding around here, which may have intimated such a thing. But -- and we know there's some questions about some of the manuals in the Veterans Administration.
But, look, instead of doing that, can't we sit down together and work together?
That might be a thought.
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McNut is out of his mind. He is a stark raving manic.
McLame is a tool.
We’ve got dang near half of the voting public hooked on the sweet kool aid of entitlements. Any ideas how to wean them off?
Do people still believe we can save the GOP? Time for a new party...
There's a hidden deal in there somewhere for McCain and Graham..
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Senator McCain,
While over your career you have served our country well, you are now irrelevant. Americans of all political stripes have little or no enthusiasm for, and diminishing interest in, what you think about matters political.
You lost in a landslide to a candidate of questionable history and reputation. You ran a feeble, feckless campaign apart from the party that nominated you. Bad as that was, it would have been likely far worse had you not chosen Gov. Palin for your running mate.
Since (actually before) your electoral defeat, you stood by while high-level campaign staffers threw Gov. Palin under the bus. You have, on more than one occasion, said and done things that promoted the initiatives and proposals of the President at the expense of your country as well as your party.
It is Gov. Palin, not you, that speaks on behalf of Americans and the GOP on the issue of health care. That is a reality which you need to accept.
Senator, please spend the rest of your term in silent obscurity from the back-bench position to which your defeat has consigned you. And then, please step away from public life entirely, while you still have some favorable reputation left.
I voted for McCain by default, since he was on the ballot with Sarah Palin.
I am giving up the “RINO” title for people like McCain. He is a Republican and a fairly typical one. The GOP is in the shape it is in and the nation teetering on the edge because people who believe largely as McCain believes have pretty much dominated the GOP for decades. It is conservatives who are the minority and whose beliefs and principles are largely at odds with much of what main-line Republican politicians believe.
I don’t take anything Juan says as true.
That’s cool. I didn’t want to give the old man the numbers.
Why doesn’t he just turn Rat already?
I am all for diplomacy but give me a break. Why didn’t he say that 0bama’s speech was partisan hack schitzophrenia?
Excellent!
It because it's what he does and he won't stop (like the terminator). It's up the the good people in AZ to stop him in the primary.
Translation: "Obama praised me in his speech because I'm a traitor to the Republican party. Obama is just swell. And whatever a person does is fully justified by the amount of passion he possesses. Obama can bankrupt our country because he is doing it with a lot of feeling. And besides, I just love that ghetto accent he breaks into sometimes in his speeches."
With this leadership, there won’t be any Republican Party in 2010. It will compromise and accomodate itself out of business.
McCain doesn’t have the first clue what’s been going on in the townhalls.
This jackass is everything that is wrong with the Republican party.
There is ‘’partisanship’’ ONLY in D.C.!! That’s the way it’s ALWAYS been!! Get that thru yer head McLaime!!!
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