Posted on 08/04/2010 10:16:30 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
I was reading a Bloomberg article on McCain's charges that private life insurance companies are refusing to pay benefits to the families of deceased U.S. soldiers and veterans when I came upon a very interesting quote buried within the article.
[Due to FR posting rules regarding posting of copyrighted material, I can not excerpt Bloomberg and must provide a summary of the content in my own words.]
Anyways, see paragraphs five and six, from the top of the article, in which McCain says that a bipartisan compromise on temporarily extending the Bush tax cuts for up to two years “may be something worth looking at.”
As my fellow FReepers remember, McCain attacked the Bush tax cuts when they were originally passed.
This, of course, brings me to my main point: why is McCain silent on the issue of permanently extending the Bush tax cuts? Could it be that he still is not in favor of extending them personally and believes that taxes must be increased in as soon as 2012 and that he is temporarily reversing course to support a two-year extension out of political expediency, most notably the fact that he faces significant political threat from the campaign of one J.D. Hayworth (who did support the Bush tax cuts)?
McCain is an idiot!
Amen!! (my friend{sarc})
The problem here is that the tax cuts were always intended as a temporary fix (note that there’s an end point somewhere down the road to these cuts). The real issue is that taxes are screwed up and tax reform (which should have been a higher priority to fix rather than universal health care)...has never been on the agenda of the Democrats.
So we allow the Bush tax cuts to keep coming up as a political topic....over and over...because we can’t make them permanent. We are in a sense...wasting lots of time arguing and re-arguing this topic.
Juan is unworthy of serious comment.
Those who vote for him do not deserve the freedom they enjoy, and consequently, it will be attenuated if Juan should prevail.
In McCain's mind it is simple:
Raise rates-Increase revenue
and he is not the conservative that might not like the idea of giving the government new revenue to spend multiples of. He went to Washington in the height of the Campaign to make sure that the huge Bush Stimulus got passed. His conservatism does not extend past the use of the word in his speeches.
Juan has been worth nothing ever since the gooks got ahold of him, if not before.
McCain spent twelve years as the Chairman of the Commerce Committee -- and still never really understood how business works.
Nor did he ever confront a problem that couldn't be solved by more government regulation.
Having guys like this in charge is what has led our economy to its dire situation.
John McCain, boldly straddling the fence once again. Some things never change.
Just like Bush was silent on making them permanent.
Think about it. This makes them expire again in a presidential election year.
...A yankee doodle dandy in a gold rolls royce
I want to be elected
... We're all gonna rock to the rules that I make
I want to be elected
Elected, elected, elected, woah...
That bears repeating.
So, I will:
McCain is an idiot!
Thank you. Repeat as often as needed......in other words, every day.
Thank you for your service and your sacrifice, Senator. Now, leave. Now.
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