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.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Never, ever trust a Senate Republican given to joining “gangs.” Those Senate “gangs,” whatever else they do, screw conservatives every time. These “gangs” are part of Clintonoid triangulation, and McCain is a prime “gangster.” When McCain says it’s about principle, it’s not about principle. It’s about self-aggrandizement. Having lost the presidential election, he wanted a big consolation job of his own making: grand leader in the Senate of the Republicratic Party, filled with heroic aisle-crossers and bipartisans! He’d be bigger than Harry Reid and that puffy-faced guy from Kentucky put together! He’d even get to appear with Obama, and have lunch with him, and Obama would split the strawberries half and half, ‘cause he’d respect Little John, he really would! Only, it didn’t work out that way. Zero’s Maine Squeezes and Specter stole the strawberries from the bipartisan fridge and gave them to Zero, so he didn’t need McDupe’s crappy alternative porkulus lite.
McCain had the chance to be Horatio at the bridge. Instead he was the troll under the bridge.
Thank you, perhaps not.
:-)
Actually, I have not seen anything objectionable on this thread by Cedric. Please point it out, and be sure to watch your spelling.
Okay, I admit, "groin leech" is an opinion, or, more precisely, it's cripplecreek's opinion of Freepers who supported and/or still support McCain, taken from post 2 of the following thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169765/posts
With apologies to cripplecreek for "plagiarism," since Cedric is probably going to accuse me of that shortly.
Cripplecreek, do you want a royalty? LOL.
What is a "hit list manager"?
Unlike my first statement, this one is NOT an opinion but fact.
I refer you to the following thread, particularly posts 9, 24, 27, 30, and all associated replies:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2119926/posts
During the election, Cedric published and promulgated a "hit list" of Freepers whom he accused of being trolls for Obama. He misstepped, however, when he dared to include established Freepers such as calcowgirl, italianquaker, and Virginia Ridgerunner, whom I have pinged to this post.
And yes, I was high on that list for opposing McCain.
LOL! Best quote of the day!
That's going on my profile.
Groin leech is my contribution to the world free for all to use.
Bite me, Cedric. I wasn't the one going around accusing "non-cooperative" Freepers of being trolls simply because they resisted the intimidation to vote for a non-conservative for president.
Congrats. You made my profile.
In your honor, I shall make a contribution to the Freepathon...right now.
If you’re not a troll, you have nothing to worry about.
So your calling a victory for Obama as a defeat because his handlers think so. He will tell the country that it is a bi-partisan compromise and it will be, barely. That is a victory any way you say it!! Congradulation Mr President on a hard fought victory over common sense, and fisical responsability, and thank you for pointing out that the republicans can never play as one team ever.
I know it and you know it.
Cedric, writing that someone is a troll when they aren't is called...LIBEL.
No, Cedric did have a hit list of FReepers who criticized McCain hoping to get them zotted. So that is a fact not an opinion. Right, Cedric?
{again}
I’m trying to give you the benefit of the doubt.
I actually know people who voted for Obama. I voted for McCain because I knew Obama isn't fit to be president, and I was right.
He doesn’t need help with a peckerwood problem.
Actually, rabscuttle385 is doing quite well at b-slapping you silly with your own actions and words, man its tough trying to hide your past misdeeds in the techno age... :-)
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