What we need is leadership, not fear. And John should have nothing to fear, since he is not up for re-election for 5 more years. So, instead of being a maverick, he is reverting to his toady establishment position.
McConnells plan is not a plan, it gives Zero the blame, but does NOTHING to start cutting.
If the GOP is serious about cutting in the future, why are they not fighting for spending cuts now?
It’s just another snake-oil deal, like the continuing resolution deal.
I have a bad feeling about this. Kinda like I did during lame duck and look what happened..... This damn thing will pass and our next Republican candidate will emerge and ride a wave of anger one has never seen..... We are in interesting times and I am ready and pissed
I think McCain is being a realist. While it is nice to have the leverage of a possible default, we really don’t want to go there. It would be very bad for everyone and I don’t think obama would have any problem letting us go down that road.
If Sean had any sense, he would not give that weasel Juan ANY airtime.
...er, never mind.
Primary elections... opening day of RINO Hunting Season
Let us be clear here.
“The fix is in” is what Hannity was saying about the Senate. He was NOT saying “the fix is in” about the House. I’m not saying your comments are inaccurate, but the headline could bring on kneejerk responses that the House is caving. Obviously there is great divergence between the House and Senate. Nothing happens without the House. Nothing happens without the House. And in the Senate, certain Senators will fight this with every tool at their disposal.
Let us be clear here.
“The fix is in” is what Hannity was saying about the Senate. He was NOT saying “the fix is in” about the House. I’m not saying your comments are inaccurate, but the headline could bring on kneejerk responses that the House is caving. Obviously there is great divergence between the House and Senate. Nothing happens without the House. Nothing happens without the House. And in the Senate, certain Senators will fight this with every tool at their disposal.
We all know cut, cap and balance won’t fly because it can not and will not get passed in the senate. The point however, is to make them kill it. The ammendment must be published and discussed openly by the RIGHT people in order to be understood by the American people in time to take it to the people for the election. We need to see it fail in the senate and then pock mark those who skewered it, and prepare to take it all the way home in the election.
McCain is senile and and McConnell must be too. They are too “smart” for the good of the country and do need to be primaried and politically harrassed every time they open their mouth. They never get any real push back.
McCain sounded like a feeble old nutjob, my friend
He even quoted that fake Gallup poll that 80% of Americans support obama
It must be sad to live inside John McCain’s head.
The crowd, the noise ...... I bet he hates it when the voices in his head escape, as we all do! YEEEEAHHH!
Many of the Pubs roll over because they know that people will still blindly vote for them (like McCain) by saying they are the less of the two evils.
Nothing will ever change unless politicians are held accountable by losing their jobs.
It’s statements like this that remind me that I’m glad McLaime is not our President, yes they both suck!
Some of the GOP Senators are ticked off at the House for not passing a bill, sending it to the Senate, and then letting the Senate get in the limelight for fighting with Barry and the Rats. It's a turf war to about half of the Senate GOP and the other half have washed their hands of the bunch who are ticked off over the House not playing nice. I don't know exactly what they expected the House to pass, but I hear they wanted something they knew the Rats in the Senate wouldn't accept which the GOP Senate fools like McCain could get lots of air time talking about and look statesman like blathering over with Barry.
Now that the House took a stand, though, the Senate egomaniacs on both sides of the aisle are really mad that the House is edging in on their turf.
McConnell's idea is for an increase of $2.5 trillion in the national debt. It also does not prevent the continued borrowing of $1.5 to $2 trillion per year for at least the next ten years and probably longer. It does not require a balanced budget or any cap on federal spending to a given percent of the GDP.
It is meant to prevent a confrontation and keep the irresponsible levels of spending in place. That is all it will do.
Well, yes, I would say the “fix is in,” when every single plan under discussion raises the debt ceiling. Even the one they’ve falsely labeled as “the Tea Party Plan.”
I don’t know a single Tea Partier who supports raising the debt limit under any circumstances or “plan.”
Absolutely disgusting. This is why I voted 3rd party in 2008. We would literally be much worse off with McCain, hard as that is to imagine.
McCain was pissed at being confronted. He knows the cut/cap/balance bill is a non-starter in the Senate but he doesn’t have the stones to deal with what happened in 1995 under Clinton. Rather than do what’s right he wants to avoid personal political pain. Screw him and the elephant he road in on.
McCain was in the bottom 5 of his class at Naval Academy, despite that he was chosen to go to flight school.
McCain crashed 3 planes before crashing the 4th in Viet nam.
Now Mccain is a leader in the Republican party?
We need a new leader. This one is in the bottom 5 in the Senate IQ Department in my mind.