McCain refuses to consider taxes to reduce deficit [says reduction of SS, Medicare costs needed]

AP ^ | 2009-08-23

[Outlaw Woman]

‘Sen. John McCain is refusing to consider raising taxes to reduce the ballooning deficit.’

Now we should all feel better. Afterall McCain is refusing (nice strong, solid word) to consider raising taxes to reduce the deficit but yet he is in favor of a bill that will ultimately tax everyone into oblivion....no wait....we’re already into oblivion (what’s the next step here? anyone? anyone? Bueller, Bueller?)

This guy is a real piece of work.

[paulycy]

Dear John McCain,

Go away.

No, really.

Thank you very much.

[moovova]

And, I voted for McCain.

Well, I guess it could’ve been worse, Obama could’ve won the election...erh, uhm...please don’t tell me.

[okie01]

McCain's thinking on every single problem seems to be:

a. Government got us into this situation.

b. Only government can get us out.

No problem is so big, so vast that it cannot be solved by thousands of pages of more government regulation.

Retire, John. Retire...while you might still retain some respect.

[moovova]

All seriousness aside...

2012, there’s gonna be some house cleaning, from the top on down.

And if the Republicans put up some YOOYOO RINO like McCain, the Conservative’s reaction will make the current townhall meetings look like kindergarten playtime.

[Steamburg]

McCain is and always has been part of the Hopey-Changey Crowd. He has no moral compass. I think if he had one they removed it in Hanoi. A Monday morning look at his candidacy in 2008 gives a clear picture of a shill for 0bama. The last straw was when he discovered that his “intentional blunder” to add Palin to the ticket pushed him over the top and he spent the remainder of the campaign trying to destroy his success.

[gwilhelm56]

**landslide - what he would have gotten in ‘08 if not for Sarah.**

If it wasn’t for SARAH, I would have stayed HOME, as my own CongressIDIOT ran Unopposed ..... again ....

IF not for SARAH, McLAME’s total vote count in ‘08 would have matched MONDALE ‘84... and I’m afraid that is what it’s going to take for the Current GOP to realize that ... RINO is NOT the WAY to GO!!

[presently no screen name]

I would have stayed HOME

I was in the hospital/rehab - my son sneaked me out to vote (w/my slippers on)- and I did it only for Sarah/the USA, not/never McShame!

May he see first hand next Nov what the Arizonian people/US citizens really think of him - may it be an embarrassment to him.

[MaggieCarta]

McCain sounds like he is putting forward a conservative alternative. But all he is doing is obstructing any conservative alternative by floating an unsupported and unworkable solution. By doing so he has boxed Republicans in. To refute his nonsensical solution they have to sound like they are for tax increases or against fixing the problems in Medicare and SS. He just provided perfect cover for 0bama's plans.

Well said.