While appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, Republican Senator and 2008 party nominee, John McCain said that Barack Obama is off to a bad beginning and has not kept his promises.
Host John King asked McCain if Republicans didn’t support the stimulus because they didn’t like the bill, or if this is the beginning of a partisan war. McCain said, “I don’t know the answer to that. I do say, in all candor, that it was a bad beginning. It was a bad beginning because it wasn’t what we promised the American people, what President Obama promised the American people, that we would sit down together. Look, I appreciate the fact that the president came over and talked to Republicans. That’s not how you negotiate a result. You sit down together in a room with competing proposals. Almost all of our proposals went down on a party line vote.”
McCain said that Obama has not lived up to his promise of new politics, “But, yes, the candidate Obama said that these conferences would be open to the public. He said that the American people would have five days to view it on the Internet. There was commitments made that are certainly not being kept now. And maybe it’s all because of their sense of emergency, but it’s not what they said they were going to do.”
Welcome to the new Republican strategy to bring Obama back to Earth. The latest tactic is exactly the same one McCain tried doing the 2008 campaign. They are trying to make Obama look like nothing special and politics as usual. The process was definitely politics as usual, but I don’t think Obama’s approach and actions can be considered politics as usual. Obama tried a different approach, and what he quickly discovered is that both the Democrats and Republicans in Congress don’t want to change the way they do business.
If McCain thinks that things would be any different if he was president, then he really is crazy. The only thing that would be different is that we would have gotten a stimulus package that would be nothing but upper class tax cuts. McCain wants to blame Obama, but the reality is that for Obama’s new politics to work, Republicans and Democrats have to want to compromise. If both parties don’t want to work together, there isn’t anything the president can do to bring them together. It is very cynical of McCain to whine about a lack of bipartisanship, while using partisanship as a political tool.
Obama claims his role model is Lincoln. By his actions it appears Hugo Chavez is a better pick.
1. Is trying very hard to nationalize the banks and auto industry.
2. Is planning on taking over the census. Politicizing the census is like turbocharging Gerrymandering.
3. Courting the unions. Expect the card check bill to be passed by summer.
4. Kill off the opposition. Expect the “Fairness Doctrine” to get sneaked into some otherwise innocuous legislation.
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Obama to McCain: Shut up loser. Waaaaa.
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Jack – please get your facts straight – It was during Bush’s administration that the banks got bought (nationalized). Obama did NOT make the banks go broke and ask for money – its like your house – when you buy one – though the deeds are in your name, the true owner is the bank.
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Republicans and Democrats need to compromise?
Well then why do people claim that Bush was such a horrible president? Did Republicans and Democrats compromise 8 years ago? But now that we have a Democratic leader, well let’s just forget our differences and start over now. What would this country look like if Democrats gave Bush the “compromise” and the “support” that people are telling us to give Obama today?
“If both parties don’t want to work together, there isn’t anything the president can do to bring them together.” -This fully explains the hypocracy of the Democratic party. Democrats never showed a desire to work together with the Republicans during the Bush Administration.
John McCain is 100% correct. I’m a 17 year old junior in high school and even I can fully understand and comprehend the areas in which Barack Obama has gone back on promises and “screwed up.” What this country needs is a leader who will make a good, healthy difference, not a leader who will go into office and make excuses for not following up on his campaign promises.
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