STFU McLunatic.
Posted on 03/20/2009 3:05:06 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
Tim Geithner, the embattled US Treasury secretary, should be given a chance to succeed, says John McCain, the former presidential candidate, who is the first prominent Republican to speak up in Mr Geithner’s defence amid growing calls for his resignation.
Speaking to the Financial Times, Mr McCain said that the “perfect storm” over AIG “has been as explosive in a short period of time as anything I have seen”.
Mr McCain, who was one of the few Republican senators to vote in favour of Mr Geithner’s nomination after revelations of tax arrears, was speaking at the end of a week in which the Republican Party has targeted Mr Geithner amid mounting public anger over Wall Street bonuses.
“Everyone acknowledges he needs help,” said Mr McCain, in reference to the Obama administration’s difficulty in recruiting nominees to the Treasury department, where Mr Geithner remains the only official to have been confirmed.
Mr McCain also distanced himself from Republican “righteous indignation” over Mr Obama’s budget tactics. Many of Mr McCain’s colleagues fear Mr Obama will use the congressional “reconciliation” process, which enables the majority to circumvent an opposition filibuster, to smuggle through healthcare reforms and energy cap and trade in the budget.
Mr McCain said that a congressional short-cut could be employed by the administration that had been devised by Republicans and used by George W. Bush to push through tax cuts. “Republicans invented this,” he said. “I don’t like it but there are chickens coming home to roost.”
It’s like Election 2008 all over again.
Well of course he does. He speaks up for everyone, except the American public that is.
John McAmnesty proves once again that he is not a conservative nor a republican.
Go away and take your porky offspring with you!!
Does McCain stay up at nite thinking of things like this to do?
Good grief. McLame gives excusses for all the RATS. I didn’t believe him when he said we had nothing to fear from Hussien. I, for one, am very afraid.
Especially when the price of failure will only be what?...several trillion dollars.
Go away McQueeg and take that retarded daughter with you maybe even find her a Husband from your “Gods” children.
This is why I voted for Palin, not McCain ....
How much longer does he have to “pay back” Obama for picking the Homeland Security Secretary so she did not kick his a$$ in the next election in 2010???? The loser can’t win with any competition so he made a deal with the devil to “get rid” of the competition.
Is it any wonder the conservative voters couldn’t unite behind him.
McCain is as worthless as an igloo in the Arizona sun.
I thought McCain cared about his country — like he said he did in all of those speeches, particularly at the Convention.
It’s clear now he doesn’t. He only cares about his club buddies, especially the Democraps.
I have added McCain to my “special prayer list”. Those are the ones that the best I can do is to pray to God that he take care of ‘em, on our behalf.
If you get my drift.
He’ll never learn, will he? They puff him up, use him as a stooge when necessary then knock him down again.
STFU McLunatic.
Arnold just came to the defense of Barry over the Special Olympics comment. McCain must have taken that has his cue to make his idiotic statement of the week.
I really, really dislike McCain.
Just goes to show that we had no viable choice in the last election. McCain is a loser. Never again will I hold my nose and vote for one.
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