McCain Working on Alternative Stimulus Plan

Wait while I wipe the tears of laughter off my cheeks LOLOLOLO O.K now McCain lost, he misread the economy during the election, the Dems have a majority and now McCain is going to give us a stimulus plan? Oh the irony! LOLOLOLOL as Obama said “I WON” and it will be his stimulus that goes through to lead this country out of the total MESS the Republicans have gotten us in during the last 8 years. They inherited a FREE & CLEAR economy with NO DEBT and now McCain wants to fix things? LOL LOLOLOLOL oh this is too good!
Go home John and do someting, clear brush or bar b que. Anything other than taking a path that leads to more jokes.

This should be interesting, this is when the fillibuster will come to play. I smell a fight in DC, until both sides can hammer out a deal that is financially beneficial to all 538 legislators…oh, and the executive branch too.

Anything McCain and the Republican’s come up with would be better than the pork laden bankruptcy bill put forth by the Democrats.
Anyone who thinks the House bill is good should go to a website with real news instead of trolling the blogs on ABC and CNN. Try the WSJ or any number of real news organizations who dare to report the truth about this abomination of a bill.

Coming up with his own personal bill “that I would hope would have some elements to it that Americans would support” rather than sitting down to work on the one already passed by the House? If he wants to serve the country, he should take the elements Americans want and get those amendments on the floor. If he wants to showboat, go ahead and write a whole new plan, drawing on all that Republican market experience over the last 8 years that were on their watch I’m sure.
I certainly don’t remember the Senate Democrats pulling this sort of stunt when Bush sent his signature tax cuts through in 2000. What happened to accepting the will of the people and allowing a new administration to put in place their policy mandate (as the Democrats did in 2000 – prior to the 9/11 groundswell of Bush support – by allowing into law the Bush Tax Cuts and No Child Left Behind Act).

Who is Obama going to blame now.

I’m sorry, did I miss something? Didn’t this country just reject John McCain’s so-called plans?
BTW, is he suspending his Senate job to work on this?

The Republicans have lost their minds. Thank God I changed from Republican to Independent.

Anyone who thinks the House bill is good should go to a website with real news instead of trolling the blogs on ABC and CNN. Try the WSJ or any number of real news organizations who dare to report the truth about this abomination of a bill.
posted by Ben
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Perhaps you don’t realize, this Administration has posted the Bill for all to see. No secrets here. You don’t have to read the WSJ editorials to decide how you think about it, you can read it and think for yourself.

wow! i think this bill might fail not because of repubs but because dems are already scared of it. this will be another big failure for BO. Gitmo trials being the first. I hope all repubs vote against this pork. Aid to illegals just doesn’t help our economy. condoms and abortions don’t either. jobs are the only way out.

McCain must be getting senile; we rejected his ideas and plans in favor of Obama’s. The Republican’s have had their chance for eight miserable years: the destruction of our economy in order to enrich 400 mega-rich families!

Obama’s plan is not finalized, yet McCain has an alternative already? Why doesn’t he just go home!
Posted by: Gerald | Jan 30, 2009 4:54:06 PM
It is not Obama’s plan. Pay attention! It is a plan from the Dems in Congress.
If you have kids you better hope this spending “BIG GOVERNMENT” plan fails. Our kids will pay for this one for most of their lives.

The right is WRONG on this and almost any issue. jimontheright: You make me laugh because you seem to forget, the Bush administration spent $10 TRILLION DOLLARS IN 8 YEARS!!!!!! Bush had a budget surplus when he took over. The Republicans pushed deregulation of the banking industry. I guess you don’t understand economics, or you’d see that the deregulations that eroded safety nets between wall street and the large banks created this disaster. Thank Lindsay Gramm and all those other jabronies for that

mccains idea huge tax breaks for the rich and big business so they can afford to close soem more factories and send work to china indiea and mexico, they ran out of the money bush agve them for work relocation.

Obama needs 60 votes in the senate to do anything.
Obama by himself has no power.
He won means nothing.
There are different branches of government.
Republicans should filibuster his bill if he doesn’t compromise and tell obama to pound sand.
Now Obama is trying in a sneaky way to get Judd Gregg as the 60th vote so republicans have no power.

I am so tired so hearing the same old news told in new ways. I know our economy is going nowhere right now and the people who we hear hurting are those who are established.
But what about us young college students who are striating out fresh. We are tomorrows future and I think it would be interesting to write a story about what young college students think about this.
We are always talking about change and something fresh.
I think that story would be a fresh change.
-19 year old college student, Florida

None of these so called “stimulus” packages will help because they don’t address the root cause of the problem. Free trade is killing this country. The rest of the world is outraged by the prospect of an end to “free trade” with the US and “protectionism” in America. Why? Because it has vastly benefited them at our expense. They demand that the US honor these deals because it’s in their best interests, not ours. Our leaders will cave to their demands and the US economy will collapse as it continues to hemorrhage the wealth we have left, and make other countries rich and the US public poorer. “free trade” and off-shoring of US jobs has made company CEO’s wealthy and the rest of us poor. The US must end free trade so that middle class families can earn a decent wage, which will enable them to buy American made products and this stimulate the economy back to life, while ceasing the vicious downward spiral of buying more than is bought from us.

The Democratic Stimul Plan….Had money in it for free condoms for low income women, 1.4 Billion for ACORN, after school snacks for kids, eduction funding for STD awareness, and money for abortion clinics. LOL HOW IS ANY OF THIS STIMULUS?????? LOL After 30 minutes of laughter at condom jokes in the Republican house Obama sheepishly left and in a red faced bipartisan moment removed it from the bill!!!!! LOL Republicans in the house at this point had to ALL vote no on the Democrates SPENDING BILL, because without the free condoms in the bill, there was no STIMULUS in the bill !!!!!! LOL hahahahahahaha…..DEPRESSION here we COME !!!!!!

So now the Republicans want to stand for limited government. What happened when they had control? The Dems and the President don’t need the Republicans for anything – they won remember? Just think of it this way if the bill stimulates they win if the bill fails they lose. Obama doesn’t want to be saddled with that baggage for the next 3.5 years. this is politics.

I’ll be one of the first dems to admit this bill has problems but to think the same group who ran the country into the ground the past 8 years can now fix it is laughable at least and pathetic at best.

The whole issue of the stimulus came about while Pres Obama was in transition and the republicans are just now coming up with a plan. Everyone says the bill is not perfect and everyone knows that there is a process in which the bill will be modified as it goes along. The president indicated and called for ideas from as far back as Nov that he wanted to start the process early so that we can get some relief, and they are just now preparing
a plan, which may delay the bill.
I personally have been affected by the murder suicides that have made headlines due to job loss, or elderly people dying because they can’t pay their bills.
I also wonder why we can never hear the details of their plans. The house repubs had a plan where is the website that I can go to read it. Its so frustrating that I agree with Michael Steele statement which should be applied that Dems are willing to work with you for the good of the American people, but if you are going to obstruct us then we will just have to run you over.

Jaime – You’d make out a lot better if you checked your spelling. As someone who has hired people, if I saw the word “starting” spelled “striating”, your resume would go in the trash – no matter how the economy was doing.

Really? We’ve spent 8 years watching McCain back Bush’s crazy policies that lead us into this. THe ONLY economic policy Bush had was lower taxes & no regulation. Look Where that got us During the campaign economic talk made McCain look confused & old. Do we really need him getting mavericky on us again. Obama won because the People want his policies.

I voted for,and money donated to Obama. I also hope he tales McCain seriously. What is wrong with getting different ideas? The last thing we need is another president like Bush.

If the republicans can wean themselves from only coming up with ideas that benefit the wealthy – they might have something value to add to the discussion.
Hernando County Florida – unemployment has shot up to almost 11%. This state needs infrastructure investment badly – not more tax breaks for the wealthy while we sit on our thumbs imagining some little bit might trickle down. NOT.

As a woman I’m disgusted at Boehner for complaining about aid for low cost birth control for the poor. He deserves a boot in the butt for remarking he doesn’t know how that will aid the economy.

citizen voter – this bill was supposed to create jobs. How, exactly, does birth control create jobs? It’s not that it isn’t a worthy thing, but THIS bill is not the place for it.

kristina – did it bother to tell you how long it would take to plan & build those bridges? At least 2 years. By then, the recession will be over without any intervention.

Grissom:
You’re absolutely right!
You Dems have the majority so Stop
Whining and Pass that Non-Stimulus,
Wasteful Spending bill of yours and
Shut Up! You’ve got total control now!
Let’s see what you can do!
Democrats will get all the glory or all
of the blame after they inact their bill!
Republicans should give the Dems
No Cover on this bill.
The Do-Nothing Democrat Congress will
have been in power 4 years come the
2010 elections, tick, tick, tick!

Alexander the great didn’t get as far as he did by singing we are the world. I agree we should all hold hands and run free in the field of flowers but get real. Just as soon as you think we have peace and comfort reality kicks in the form of real conflict. Which has lasted for centuries and it is not going to “change” until mothernature says so we can pretend everythings OKAY and stick our head in the ground but real human nature will always overpower the weak, which seems to always be the peaceful. This is well above me as one human to another though assuming all wars are over and division is unified is asking for trouble.

You cons are ridiculous. Suddenly you are budget hawks after eight years of letting Bush spend us into the grave with over 9 trillion dollars of debt. Now suddenly, with a perfect record of FAILURE, you are going to guide us out of the morass YOU created with your stupid policies and wrong-headed lack of ideas? Now you are the big experts?
Is that why the public turned you out of power during this last election, because they know who put them in the poorhouse and punished your party accordingly?
Well, I hope Cactus John with his record of do-nothing-really-significant in the Senate, who ran a disgracefully slanderous and evil campaign, will now be the beacon of light when he already admitted he knows nothing about the economy.
Well, I love the GOP’s gall and hubris. They still don’t get it. They are failures and they still act like they’re flushed with success.
The only thing “bi-partisan” gets us is delay and watering down of desperately needed, urgent measures to stem the economic bleeding. We don’t need this obstructionist party to do what it does so well…screw the poor and middle class some more.

Sorry John – no one liked you last year and we still don’t like you this year.
Having said that know that Obama is still the socialist slime ball he was last year too. It’s time to boot both parties out and get this country back to its principles.
http://www.middleofright.com/2009/01/americans-are-stupid.html

Interesting how so many assume Bush was the one who spent all that money when Congress is the only branch that can authorize spending any money…including presidential “discretionary” funds. Without Congressional approval, no president has money to spend. Democrats controlled Congress for the past two years yet there was no decrease in spending.
Also interesting how Bush was accused of ignoring the will of the people by the same fokls who are now praising the Democrat Congress and the Democrat president for ignoring the will of at least 75% of the people who oppose this pork barrel legislation.

What a joke. These guys including JOHN ran the economy into the ground while building the biggest debt load in America’s history by giving it (really pouring it into supply-side economics and tax breaks for now bankrupt and morally corrupt businesses and the ultra wealthy) so their supporters could build themselves million dollar bathrooms.
These fools have no plan that helps anyone other than those who are suffering the least and as a group are reponsible for this mess.
To heck with them.

Michael – Isn’t it a bit of an exaggeration that NO ONE likes John McCain, when almost 1/2 of the country voted for him?

He’s a looser! When are we going to get some genuinely caring people in the party who aren’t only about what is best for themselves and not for all Americans.

McCains and fellow republicans plan: More bailouts for wealthy CEO’s and millionaires. They also want to send the rest of our jobs overseas where child labor can produce products cheaper.

Obviously the Supporters of
President Obama and the Congressional
Democrats are too dumb to understand
the situation so I’ll repeat it.
The Democrats have large majorities in the House and Senate.
You don’t need Republican support of
this Non-Stimulative, Wasteful Spending
Bill! Stop looking for cover.
Stop Whining. Pass the Bill.
It’s that simple. You get the glory or
the blame!

Am I the only one who doesn’t want to hear this guy anymore? He picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. He ran his presidential campaign from the sewer. He doesn’t seem to grasp economic issues in any sense.
He is still singing that old song that the answer to our problems is to make tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations permanent. In other words, we should make permanent the policies that helped get us into this mess in the first place. Sounds like a recipe for success to me.

McCain as President would actually attack the pork issue head on. Too bad America voted for image over substance. :(

Grissom:
Your comment:
re:…They inherited a FREE & CLEAR economy with NO DEBT and now McCain wants to fix things?
I think you meant to type NO DEFICIT referring to what the Clinton administration left behind before leaving office. We still have trillions in debt…

McCain is a back stabber. If you think he hasn’t forgotten how he got beaten by Pres. Obama you are as crazy as Limbaugh. It was disgusting how he pandered to Limbaugh. He has already said economy was not his strong point. Republicans are soooo smart all of a sudden, after getting the US. in this mess.

EDIT: IN THE NAME OF GREED, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE COMMITTING FRAUD. THEY
ARE DELIBERATELY NOT PAYING THEIR MORTGAGES TO QUALIFY FOR THE
BAILOUT. MAYBE, THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE WAITED UNTIL THE BAILOUT
WAS APPROVED BEFORE ANNOUNCING, “WE ARE ONLY GOING TO BAILOUT 90 DAY
LATE MORTGAGES.” THIS IS WHY PEOPLE ARE COMMITTING FRAUD. IN
NOVEMBER, I MET A LADY WHO WAS NOT PAYING HER MORTGAGE BECAUSE HER
LANDLORD DECIDED TO RAISE HER LOAN BY 24,000. ARE LENDERS
DELIBERATELY FORCING PEOPLE INTO FORECLOSURE IN ORDER TO CLAIM A
BAILOUT FOR DEFAULT LOANS? I WAS THINKING, “INSTEAD USING THE BAILOUT
TO REWARD GREED, WHAT ABOUT USING THE MONEY TO MAKE BUYING A HOME
EASIER. THE SPIRIT OF GREED WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US. WHICH MEANS,
“UNLESS THERE IS STRICT REGULATION, THE MORTGAGE CRISIS WILL HAPPEN
AGAIN.” WHAT ABOUT REGULATING THE ‘GREEDY’ PEOPLE WHO TRAVEL AROUND
THE COUNTRY BUYING UP ‘AFFORDABLE’ HOMES AND FLIPPING AT
‘UNAFFORDABLE’ PRICES?” THE SAD PART IS, “AFTER THEY MAKE A PROFIT,
THEY RETURN HOME TO THEIR STATE OF RESIDENCE LEAVING THE LOCAL
RESIDENTS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT WITH THE HEAD ACHE OF TRYING TO SELL
‘UNAFFORDABLE’ HOMES.” THIS IS NOT FAIR TO THE LOCALS OR THE CITY
GOVERNMENT. IN ORDER TO PREVENT ANOTHER MORTGAGE CRISIS, “WE HAVE TO
STOP THE PRACTICE OF FLIPPING HOMES AT UNFORDABLE PRICES.” WITHIN A
POOR TO MIDDLE CLASS COMMUNITY, “THERE SHOULD BE A LIMIT ON THE ANNUAL
APPRECIATION OF HOME.” IT IS LUDICROUS FOR PEOPLE TO EXPECT THE PRICE
TO READJUST BACK TO THE PRICE BEFORE THE MORTGAGE CRISIS. BEFORE THE
CRISIS, THE PRICES WERE BASED ON GREED; NOT REALITY. IN ORDER TO
PREVENT ANOTHER MORTGAGE CRISIS, THERE ARE 2 SIGNS, “TOO MANY ‘EMPTY’
HOUSES IN YOUR CITY. AND, TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE PAYING ‘ONLY’ THE
INTEREST ON THE LOAN.”

To : John McCain or GOP haters,
I am surprised with your puerile judgment that American most biggest deal, the stimulus bill, 819 Billions Dollars are being still embroiled in your emotional and useless dregs from campaign of John McCain in 2008. PLEASE WAKE UP!!!!! and READ why McCain/GOP are against the bill. Obama’s stimulus that never can increase 3.5 millions jobs and revenue will guarantee America go to bankruptcy within two years if DNC pass the bill as follows :
$360 million for helping of ABORTION to some Africa countries.
$150 million for 3 hour inauguration.
$20 million for aid of GAZA, HAMAS group
$335 million for education related to sexually transmitted diseases
$1,000 million for aid of ACORN that is under FBI investigate w/VOTE-FRAUD.
$650 million for coupons to help people make the switch to digital TV
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$150 million for the Smithsonian Institution
$50 million for the National Cemetery Administration’s monument and memorial repairs
$800 million for Amtrak, the country’s railroad system
$400 million for global warming research
$100 million for reducing the danger of lead paint in homes
$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
$50 million for NASA facilities that may have been harmed by natural disaster
$200 million for the U.S. Geological Survey to monitor earthquakes and volcanoes
DO YOU THINK OBAMA’S THE STIMULUS CAN SAVE 3.5 MILLION JOBS after SPENDTHRIFT all money ? NEVER.

“McCain postponed his campaign in September to address the financial crisis – didn’t do squat then, and I doubt that he will do squat now!” Posted by: Sandee
The plan to address the “financial crisis” in October was endorsed by Obama, Bush, Pelosi, Reid and others – not just McCain. We know now that it was a huge failure. Because we know that, should we continue doing the same thing – spending money, going deeper in debt and ignoring the real reasons for this recession – or should we try something new? To me, trying something new seems a bit more reasonable, and it doesn’t matter who you voted for. The plan proposed by Obama is too expensive for this country – it’s a record-breaking amount of money that he wants to spend with no real indication that it will actually stimulate the economy.

# The House of Representatives debated the bill for eight hours, or roughly $102 billion per hour.
# Only 10 percent of the stimulus funds would be spent in 2009.
# Almost half of the $820 billion would end up in the pockets of Democratic-controlled unions, such as the Service Employees International Union, and federal, state, and municipal employee unions.
# At 680 pages long, neither Obama nor any member of the House had enough time to read the entire bill before the House voted.
# The $820 billion would be enough to give every unemployed American $75,000.

McCain’s plan is more tax cuts. No spending – just tax cuts. Doesn’t matter that less Americans have jobs. It’s the GOP mantra. My understanding is that the stimulus bill already has $275 billion in tax cuts. I assume that also extends from middle and lower income Americans to small businesses who the GOP is so worried about. McCain never really understood the economy back in 2008 and didn’t choose Romney who everybody in the GOP said would help magically fix our economy. Romney is the kind of cold CEO who wouldn’t think twice about cutting costs by laying off employees in this economy rather than finding other inventive ways of cutting costs.

President Obama is on his way to make a very threatening mistake. He is putting forth a stimulus package that is overloaded with pork and other useless spending. He claims to want to create a bipartisan government but, is failing to allow the contribution of Republicans. When only three Republicans voted in favor of this bill, Obama should have take the initiative to allow negotiations. When I refer to negotiations I am not talking about appeasements. I am talking about combining the ideals of both parties to create the best possible stimulus package. The other major problem with this package is that the long terms affects are not anylzed enough. Democrats talk about how republicans were only focused on the short term improvements, especially in regards to President Bush. Well, I have yet to hear that this stimulus package takes into consideration the long term effects. As a matter of fact I am apprehensive about the good effects the Democrats promise.