McCain: Tea Party Members Had ‘Mandate’ to Oppose Tax and Spending Hikes

National Review ^ | 2011-08-07 | Katrina Trinko

[SaraJohnson]

He knows what he vomited out in public to help Obama’s cause of avoiding making spending cuts. He’s trying to mitigate the damage he’s caused to his own reputation in the Senate. Too late Johnnyboy.

Senate Republicans should shun him. This is one backstab too far. He’s now joined Obama in a political game that threatened the world with default and resulted in the downgrading of the US credit. He’s gone too far. Backbench him or transfer him officially to Obama’s party.

[NoGrayZone]

This whole thing has gone too far. I feared that we have been going over the cliff at such a accelerated rate, now I'm in panic mode.

[SaraJohnson]

It was treason to play politics with the debt ceiling like Obama chose to do in trotting out Geithner to threaten the world with default when they had no intention nor need to default on our loans even if the debt ceiling was not passed. They set a false deadline to create panic and to conclude the orchestrated election drama before Obama’s big fund raising birthday bash.

They made the US look like a banana republic being run by unstable jihadists holding knives to everyone’s throats to get a ransom from the taxpayers and US Treasury. The whole time they are shouting “The Tea Party is making us do!” to gain political points for an election. The president decided to play this kind of high stakes political game for a election performance and his poor judgement and carelessness harmed the Nation greatly. He should be impeached.