Posted on 02/07/2009 6:48:27 AM PST by rabscuttle385
He built his reputation and ran for president as someone who would buck the GOP in favor of bipartisan cooperation. Now he's rallying opposition to the Democratic stimulus plan.
BY JANET HOOK
Reporting from Washington. Mac is back.
But now, Sen. John McCain is cutting a new profile -- one that is far more partisan than when he became so familiar to Americans months ago as the Republican nominee for president.
As a candidate, McCain cast himself as a uniter of the two parties, willing to buck his GOP colleagues and reach across the aisle to build compromises on immigration, campaign finance and other hot-button issues.
But this week, with Barack Obama in the White House and McCain back in Congress, the Arizona senator has played a prominent and uncompromising role in rallying Republican opposition to the Democratic majority and its stimulus plan.
McCain did not join the small group of centrists from both parties who worked this week to put together a compromise to let the stimulus bill move forward. Instead, he took to the floor and pushed a Republican alternative that was heavier on tax cuts and offered less government spending than President Obama wants.
McCain secured the support of every Republican. The Senate rejected the plan 57 to 40.
McCain has a long-standing reputation as an enemy of excessive spending. His opposition to pork-barrel politics puts him in sync with leaders of his party, who want to bolster a Republican image as the party of small government and fiscal responsibility.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Never, ever trust a Senate Republican given to joining “gangs.” Those Senate “gangs,” whatever else they do, screw conservatives every time. These “gangs” are part of Clintonoid triangulation, and McCain is a prime “gangster.” When McCain says it’s about principle, it’s not about principle. It’s about self-aggrandizement. Having lost the presidential election, he wanted a big consolation job of his own making: grand leader in the Senate of the Republicratic Party, filled with heroic aisle-crossers and bipartisans! He’d be bigger than Harry Reid and that puffy-faced guy from Kentucky put together! He’d even get to appear with Obama, and have lunch with him, and Obama would split the strawberries half and half, ‘cause he’d respect Little John, he really would! Only, it didn’t work out that way. Zero’s Maine Squeezes and Specter stole the strawberries from the bipartisan fridge and gave them to Zero, so he didn’t need McDupe’s crappy alternative porkulus lite.
McCain had the chance to be Horatio at the bridge. Instead he was the troll under the bridge.
Thank you, perhaps not.
:-)
Actually, I have not seen anything objectionable on this thread by Cedric. Please point it out, and be sure to watch your spelling.
Okay, I admit, "groin leech" is an opinion, or, more precisely, it's cripplecreek's opinion of Freepers who supported and/or still support McCain, taken from post 2 of the following thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169765/posts
With apologies to cripplecreek for "plagiarism," since Cedric is probably going to accuse me of that shortly.
Cripplecreek, do you want a royalty? LOL.
What is a "hit list manager"?
Unlike my first statement, this one is NOT an opinion but fact.
I refer you to the following thread, particularly posts 9, 24, 27, 30, and all associated replies:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2119926/posts
During the election, Cedric published and promulgated a "hit list" of Freepers whom he accused of being trolls for Obama. He misstepped, however, when he dared to include established Freepers such as calcowgirl, italianquaker, and Virginia Ridgerunner, whom I have pinged to this post.
And yes, I was high on that list for opposing McCain.
LOL! Best quote of the day!
That's going on my profile.
Groin leech is my contribution to the world free for all to use.
Bite me, Cedric. I wasn't the one going around accusing "non-cooperative" Freepers of being trolls simply because they resisted the intimidation to vote for a non-conservative for president.
Congrats. You made my profile.
In your honor, I shall make a contribution to the Freepathon...right now.
If you’re not a troll, you have nothing to worry about.
So your calling a victory for Obama as a defeat because his handlers think so. He will tell the country that it is a bi-partisan compromise and it will be, barely. That is a victory any way you say it!! Congradulation Mr President on a hard fought victory over common sense, and fisical responsability, and thank you for pointing out that the republicans can never play as one team ever.
I know it and you know it.
Cedric, writing that someone is a troll when they aren't is called...LIBEL.
No, Cedric did have a hit list of FReepers who criticized McCain hoping to get them zotted. So that is a fact not an opinion. Right, Cedric?
{again}
I’m trying to give you the benefit of the doubt.
I actually know people who voted for Obama. I voted for McCain because I knew Obama isn't fit to be president, and I was right.
He doesn’t need help with a peckerwood problem.
Actually, rabscuttle385 is doing quite well at b-slapping you silly with your own actions and words, man its tough trying to hide your past misdeeds in the techno age... :-)
Looks like Cedric is following the path of McCain... To total irrelevance.
Hmm... it appears that Mind-numbed Robot is conspicuously absent from the current discussion on the actual FACTS, maybe he is busy promulgating his apology... Yes that must be it!
Thank you for providing the origin of this dispute.
Whether one liked McCain or didn’t was a matter of opinion, some of it supported by facts but most of it not. I didn’t like him but I supported him because it was him or Obama, period, and Obama was/is unacceptable. There was the matter of Supreme court nominations, defense spending and national defense in general, the war on the Islamist, federal spending, and other things on which McCain’s positions were closer to mine. It is mathematical fact that any vote not cast for McCain helped Obama, so those who voted for Ron Paul or any other candidate share in the result.
All this other about hit list, crotch leeches, etc., is just adolescent blather.
See the above response. I am doing other things while intermittently Freeping.
Ditto...
Shirley, you jest.
Free Republic Opinion Poll:
Would you be for or against McCain?
Member Opinion
against 92.4% 2,989
for 7.6% 247
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McCain and Stem Cell Research Round-up
Tom Delay On Faux "McCain Has Done More To Hurt The Party" VIDEO
John McCain: "My Conservative Record" YouTube VIDEO
John McCain, Jack Kemp and Hugo Chavez.
MORE GUN CONTROL: McCAIN-LIEBERMAN FR April '01
Gun Owners of America on McCain's Record.
GUNS AND SCHOOLS: THE POLITICS (McCain tries to grab guns, 1999)
CITIZENS COMMITTEE URGES JOHN McCAIN TO RETIRE FROM UNITED STATES SENATE
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA)
John McCain Losing His Cool YouTube video
Vietnam Veterans Against McCain YouTube video
McCain Argues for U.S. Troop Withdrawl from Somalia Mr. Blackhawk Down (YouTube VIDEO)
McCain Group Got Big Cable Donation Breath taking corruption, Senator!
THE PAMPERED POLITICIAN - John McCain Keating 5 and other things. FR Nov. '99
McCain gives nod to Kerry campaign (MAJOR RINO ALERT!) June 2003
MAFIA, EMPRISE, DELAWARE NORTH, DON BOLLES, BRUCE BABBITT, BILL CLINTON...AND JOHN McCAIN?
McCain married into the mob.
Former P.O.W.: "Why I Cannot Support Senator John McCain for President"
U.S. POW/MIAs Who May Have Survived In Captivity
SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO"
SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO" Part II
John McCain: The Manchurian Candidate
The War Secrets Sen. John McCain Hides
A number of articles on McCain. (some the same as above)
McCain Seeks to Change California Primary
John McCain funded by Soros since 2001
McCain/Soros by Rabbi Areyh Spero
McCain-Soros Toppled GOP Candidates Nov. 21, 2006
Soros' "Reform" (an article about Soros‘ instrumental hand in McCain/Feingold)
John McCain: George Soros' Useful Idiot?
Through The Weeds; John McCain, George Soros and the Reform Institute
McCain’s Reform Institute donor list:
Reform Institute greatfully acknowleges Sen. McCain as past Chairman:
McCain planning climate change tour
McCain's Letter (McCain aligns with Global Enviro activists)
The Turning Point on Global Warming (McCain and Lieberman Op-Ed Alert)
Climate bill sets stage for debate (Sens. McCain, Obama, and Lieberman join forces)
McCain: Global warming is fact, must be addressed [hurl alert]
McCain Sides With Leading Dems on Global Warming (NH voter reminder ALERT
EIA's Analysis of the Lieberman-McCain Climate Change Bill Human Events
McCain's Nose-Under-the-Tent Strategy - McCain's "Climate Stewardship Act" (S. 139), co-sponsored with Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.)
Kyoto Through the Back Door? A Debate on the Lieberman –McCain Climate Stewardship Act - Heritage Foundation
Promising Vote on Global Warming - "But Mr. McCain, as we know, does not give up easily. ... He promises to be just as tenacious on this issue."
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Captains of Industry Could Populate McCain Cabinet ( Lieberman Potential Cabinet Member)
McCain Still Disliked by Fiscal Conservatives (Club For Growth)
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Believe NYT on McCain corruption scandal
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Billboard owner bars ad targeting McCain Viacom refuses anti-Amnesty billboard because it bashes McCain.
How Bill Kristol ditched conservatism. Great Escape (Gave floundering McCain 2000 campaign a direction.)
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McCain Looked into Caucusing with Democrats
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McCain, Obama Make Deal on Financing
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McCain denies he was close to quitting GOP
Double Talk Express. McCain in his own words. VIDEO
John McCain's Newt Problem (Infidelity to first wife.)
How Cindy McCain was outed for drug addiction(stole drugs from the American Voluntary Medical Team) (McCain used his influence to cover it up.)
McCain and his Chicom Connections: Posts #17 and #18 by Calpernia
TEN REASONS NOT TO SUPPORT MCCAIN (Free Republic thread from 2000)
McCain Blames Bush For Osama's Escape
McCain Rides to Kerry's Rescue: "John Kerry is Not Weak on Defense" (Today Show alert)
The Real McCain Record Obstacles in the way of conservative support.
McCain Is the Amnesty Candidate
John McCain SCREAMS AT 9/11 FSA MEMBERS FOR OPPOSING HIS BILL TO GIVE AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS
It depends on the meaning of “never” (McCain's Convenient Memory)
UN Double Talk from Straight Talker McCain (Law of the Sea Treaty)
The Conservative Case Against John McCain In 2008
John McCain: Hypocrite by Mark R. Levin
This Man is Not a Republican (re: McCain) (FR thread - Jan. 2000)
Freeper Alert: Sen. KERRY / Communist Vietnamese Killing Off Christains in Central Highlands... (...with Senator McCAIN (R) in complete agreement with him, is because "Engagement" with Communist Vietnam is better for the people of Vietnam in the long run.)
John McCain armed Kosovo Islamic terrorists
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McCain says:
"Why don't you shut your political pie hole?"
Stifling the www? Online Freedom of Speech Act (H.R. 1606)
"1606 is needed because federal courts have ordered the Federal Election Commission to regulate "electioneering communications" on the Internet because of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act (McCain-Feingold). If H.R. 1606 fails to become law, your Web site or blog could be shut down for the 30 days prior to a primary election and the 60 days prior to a general election should you express "electioneering communications."
John McCain, enemy of free speech
Who be da man... you be da man! Nice log, bookmarking for later use!
FR links on McCain's record from Feb. 2000. MrChips collection.
When I say whether one liked McCain or not is a matter of opinion what opinion did you form about me? Regardless of what it is on what did you base it? Why the anti McCain library of references?
I have already said I don’t like McCain.
Can’t you see that all you furnish is just evidence on which people form opinions and that much of that evidence itself is opinions? People can look at the same thing and go either way depending on their personal values and priorities.
When I say that why do you think I jest?
Multiply your vote by all the others and my point stands.
Not really, but that’s fine. Even had I been in a battleground state I would never have cast a vote for a man I despise.
If he had communicated this philosophy more effectively and exposed the Democratic policy failures at the heart of the “meltdown” he may have pulled it out and then we wouldn’t be facing this nightmare of a pork barrel spending monstrosity!
Thanks for nothing, Mac!
None at all.
Why the anti McCain library of references?
That was because you said...
...some of it supported by facts but most of it not.
That is what must be a jest.
Can’t you see that all you furnish is just evidence on which people form opinions and that much of that evidence itself is opinions?
That simply isn't true. Those articles are filled with facts. Those are the things I form opinions on.
It was some troll-like noob that tried to get my name added to the list.
On that occasion, I believe Cedric actually apologized to me (IIRC).
Regardless, the brownshirt-like tactics of list-keeping were wrong-headed.
By trying to silence discussion of opinions, they become the same as the enemy we try to defeat.
Hmmm...Link is showing “No such file (give_legacy_article)”
Sorry, I should have said something. Older threads bring that result due to changes in the FR software. If you refresh the page a few times it should load. It may take as many as ten refreshes but usually just three or four. I know it’s there as I opened it a day or two ago.
So does this mean you supported McCain being cute and cuddly and aiding the Kosovo Liberation Army, a known affiliate of al-Qaeda?
It is mathematical fact that any vote not cast for McCain helped Obama...
More like FUZZY mathematical fact.
And yet Cedric never apologized to me.
Nor did Cedric ever answer sickoflibs' question about whether he considered GWB a RINO.
It has been duly noted that you obeyed my command.
You’re dismissed.
You can't assume that, Cedric.
Maybe they had something better to do than hang out with a chap like you on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. I know I did. I went for a tasty cheeseburger, a strawberry milkshake, and a lovely drive in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Also, McQueeg still sucks, and, to use the fantabulous cripplecreek's words, so do all of his Freeper groin leeches.
Actually Cedric replied to me that GWB was not a RINO, so then I asked him if GWB was a conservative and he replied “I know what you are”. I asked him if that was supposed to mean something, but got no answer. He may be a closet McCain lover.
; ~ )
You mean like Lindsey Graham? Or The Lord Messiah Obama, The King of Zeros, himself?
First, a Happy Meal!
Then, putt-putting around Appalachia on a moped with “uncle” Daddy!!
And everyone's especially relieved to know that you made it back to the double-wide, no worse for the wear.
Thanks for sharing.
I'd say the only thing you've really ever ordered about is a few household pets - you wouldn't command enough respect from anything or anyone else. Now run along and take your lithium pill - you need it.
You swallowed it.
Until next time, watch your grammar and word usage.
Did you take your pill yet?
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