Posts
so I would guess that Mr. McCain didn't get the memo from the voters back on November 4th,2008 when he got his ass kicked in an election. Oh, that would have been the election for president which he lost.
Mr McCain was on Fox News Sunday being questioned by the ever Republican leaning Chris Wallace, so, as you can imagine, it was interesting.
First we start with proof that McCain really is out of touch with Americans.
From a video clip which Wallace puts up for McCain to watch, we have McCain saying:
MCCAIN: The message that the American people are sending us now is they want us to work together and get to work.
So after the clip Wallace has a question for old John.
WALLACE: Given that belief, what do you see as your role towards President Obama?
MCCAIN: I view it as the loyal opposition -- help and work together where I can, and stand up for the principles and the party and the philosophy that I campaigned on and have stood for for many years.
I have a problem with this answer because McCain says nothing about standing up for the American people in this country. It's all about the party and their principles, few that there are.
Let's get to the economy, shall we?
WALLACE: Let’s talk about the economy. We’ll get to national security in a moment.
The president is pushing an economic stimulus package of $825 billion that raises some of the issues that were at the heart of your campaign against Barack Obama -- $275 billion in tax breaks, including money for people who don’t pay income taxes; $550 billion in spending, including $200 million to re-sod the National Mall, $360 million to fight sexually transmitted disease.
As that package now stands, can John McCain vote for it?
MCCAIN: No. We need to make tax cuts permanent, and we need to make a commitment that there’ll be no new taxes. We need to cut payroll taxes. We need to cut business taxes.
Again with those permanent tax cuts! Give it a fucking break, John-boy, will you? Your party has sucked billions out of the U.S. Treasury with those tax cuts to big business. Money which any real government could have used for real issues. How do you keep the government running without taxes John. Oh, that's right. Privatize it, right?
We need to have a commitment that after a couple of quarters of GDP growth that we will embark on a path as we’ll say -- called Gramm- Rudman -- to reduce spending to get our budget in balance.
We’re going to lay an additional 2 trillion, basically, dollars of debt on future generations of Americans. Is there going to be a point where foreign countries such as the Chinese stop buying our debt?
WALLACE: As it stands now, though, you’d vote against it.
MCCAIN: Well, look. I mean, I am opposed to most of the provisions in the bill. As it stands now, I would not support it.
WALLACE: Would you filibuster it?
MCCAIN: Well, let’s -- I mean, I want us all to sit down and negotiate. The Republicans have not been brought in to the degree that we should be into these negotiations and discussions.
So far, as far as I can tell, no Republican proposal has been incorporated. Maybe there has been. I just may have missed it. But clearly, we need to have serious negotiations.
We already know what the Republican ideas are John. The same as they have always been. More tax cuts and less regulation. the conservative cry throughout the ages. Give us a fucking break.
When asked about the torture issue and Eric Holder's answers on the possibility of prosecutions to those who may have been involved in this mess, McCain did have the same answer all Republicans, and many Democrats have had.
WALLACE: The president’s choice for attorney general, Eric Holder, said the other day at his congressional hearing that waterboarding is torture, and he left open the possibility that lawyers or CIA officers who participated in some of these activities could be liable to criminal prosecution.
How do you feel about that, the idea of the possibility of investigations and even criminal prosecution of people who were doing what they were told to do during the Bush years?
MCCAIN: I think it’s time to move forward. I believe that waterboarding is in violation of the Geneva Conventions, and I’ve said it for years. But it’s time to move forward. ( my emphasis )
Let's move forward and forget about the illegal activities of the Bush administration so that the next group can screw us even more.
