How about that John McCain?

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This from a letter-to-the-editor:


How about that John McCain? He stood on the Senate floor ranting and raving about three Republican Senators who sided with the Democrats on the stimulus package.

Hey John, guess what? They’re called “mavericks”!

Fred Smith

This is outstanding! I wish I thought of this!

[Xena]

Excellent!

[101Scout]

How's McShame's reach across the aisle doing???

[Xena]

Remember, he can't raise his arms.

[KyndCulture]

To quote Jon Stewart, isn't it more like a REACH AROUND to his repuke pals?

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John, Obama won by an electoral landslide. Get over it!

>“It has hundreds of billions of dollars in projects which will not yield in jobs,”
John, we know you have admitted you know nothing about economics, so you must be repeating what Phil Gramm tells you. The problem, John, is that Gramm is mostly responsible for the economic mess! Millions are unemployed because Gramm's ideas simple do not work!

Oh, and one more thing... your 15 minutes of fame are over. Sit down and shut up!


February 15, 2009
Stimulus bill was 'a bad beginning' for Obama, says McCain
Posted: 11:49 AM ET

From CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart
CNN

CNN's John King sat down with Sen. John McCain in Phoenix, Arizona. Watch Part 1 of McCain's interview.

(CNN) – Arizona Sen. John McCain did not pull any punches in assessing a major milestone in his former rival’s nascent presidency.

“It was a bad beginning,” McCain said Sunday of the legislative process that resulted in the $787 billion stimulus bill recently passed by Congress. “It was a bad beginning because it wasn’t what we promised the American people, what President Obama promised the American people – that we would sit down together.”

While McCain said he appreciated the fact that Obama came to Capitol Hill to speak with House Republicans about the stimulus bill. But, “that’s not how you negotiate a result.” Instead, “you sit down in a room with competing proposals” and “almost all of our proposals went down on a party-line vote”

“I hope the next time we will sit down together and conduct truly bipartisan negotiations. This was not a bipartisan bill.”

But the former Republican presidential nominee was also critical of how his own party had conducted itself in the past when it came to bipartisanship.

“Republicans were guilty of this kind of behavior,” McCain said. “I’m not saying that we did things different. But Americans want us to do things differently and they want us to work together.”

The stimulus bill which Obama will sign Tuesday is “incredibly expensive,” McCain also said. “It has hundreds of billions of dollars in projects which will not yield in jobs,” McCain told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King. “This was supposed to be a package that was going to create jobs.”

McCain also spoke about the potential long-term effects of the stimulus bill.

“We are committing generational theft,” McCain said. “We are laying a huge deficit on future generations of Americans.”

Failure to bring the federal government’s spending back in line with its revenue once the economy improves could lead to inflation and debasement of the dollar down the road, McCain also told King.

McCain, who has represented the border state of Arizona in the Senate for more than two decades, also discussed illegal immigration on State of the Union.
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“It was a bad beginning,” McCain said Sunday of the legislative process that resulted in the $787 billion stimulus bill recently passed by Congress. “It was a bad beginning because it wasn’t what we promised the American people, what President Obama promised the American people – that we would sit down together.”

So McCain's upset that he didn't get to set the agenda on this issue?


The stimulus bill which Obama will sign Tuesday is “incredibly expensive,” McCain also said. “It has hundreds of billions of dollars in projects which will not yield in jobs."

Those would be the tax cuts that RepubliCons demanded.
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While McCain said he appreciated the fact that Obama came to Capitol Hill to speak with House Republicans about the stimulus bill. But, “that’s not how you negotiate a result.” Instead, “you sit down in a room with competing proposals” and “almost all of our proposals went down on a party-line vote”

I guess he's talking about the vote in the House where not one single lock-step RepubliCon voted for the Stimulus. And McCain himself refused to vote for the Senate version.

Bi-Partisanship begins at home, Senator. Clean up your own yard before complaining about the condition of your neighbor's property.

[SubstituteTeacher]

Mc Cain had his day in the sun. Bush and the republicans lost and the voters rejected their agenda. Why doesn't he shut up.

[Christine]

Geez! He's already forgotten that he lost...and why...and by how much :) Poor old geezer! Poor Arizona!