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Posted on 03/26/2009 11:21:00 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) just gave an address on “generational theft” at the Heritage Foundation and semi-endorsed Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s plan for purchasing toxic assets from financial institutions. “It’s progress,” McCain said, generating a few sighs in the packed room. He opposes any more TARP money going out without more oversight, but wants to give Geithner’s plan a chance. His preference is that banks be “taken over, their managers suffer for their failure, and their assets sold off,” another comment that didn’t light up the room.
The speech rather quickly dovetailed into an attack on earmarks. “I’m aware that earmarks consume a very small proportion of the budget,” McCain said. The reason to focus on them is that they’re “deeply, deeply offensive” to Americans who are tightening their belts.
McCain also argued that the GOP wasn’t a “party of no,” (they had proposed smaller, tax-cut focused stimuli) and he ruled out any attempt to to use the budget reconciliation process to pass health care, education, or environmental reform. Doing that would debase “the normal 60 vote requirement that makes the Senate the unique environment that it is.”
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John McCain...still clueless.
McCain is poison.
He has poisoned the Republican Party with his presence, he screwed up his campaign - possibly deliberately. And now he CONTINUES to create mayhem and havoc.
He should be mounted backwards on a mule and sent over to the Democrats - where he belongs.
McCain’s betrayal increases by the day!
Republicans in Arizona: Please DO NOT re-elect this traitor in the primary!
The only time I believed a politician is when John McCain said that he didn’t understand economics or something to that effect.
As I recall, Geithner’s plan is very similar to the plan McCain put forth during the election.
FMCDH(BITS)
We need to start by getting him and Steele out forever Then the rest of the RINOs one by one. We control them with money.
I’m beginning to think that McCain is just plain mentally challenged. Could he have picked a worse group to tell this to?
I suspect that his mind is getting foggy, and probably he needs someone to tell him where he left his wallet when he got undressed last night and put his pants in the laundry.
Oh, no, not in the washing machine again!
Appearance over substance. That sums up McCain pretty well.
Benedict Arnold?
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