McCain: “Obama’s ‘New Politics’ Off to a Bad Start”

OH MY GOD Mc Bush shut up…..Like you have a better plan ????You would not give credit to this man not matter what he does.You have no clue as to what has to be done and I for one hope that when you term in the Senate is done so are you.
You are the some ole Washington give breaks to the rich and big companys to heck with the little guy…

McCain you lost, get over it. What an ugly bitter old man.

Ha! The Republicans have driven this country to RUIN over the past EIGHT LONG YEARS and have left us actually as bad off as during the Great Depression now play like they have the answers. Sadly, naive americans will believe them.

Mc Cain is a psychotic old snake in the grass. Always smiling and giving lip service to “working with Democrats” or all of that BS about “reaching across the aisle.” He only fools the fools. He’s a nasty,evil Republican loser and will help sabotage everything our new President puts forth.
Republicans will lose in 2010 for being isolationist PIGS. Right now we need politicians to work with out leader, and as usual we get Ann Colter, Rush Limbaugh(he’s SO 1980′s!) and the others out front trying to tear down everything….remember, they are just actors. You too, O’Reily!

Let’s not forget that almost half of the people, mostly non-urban people, did not want the Democrats to win. They still deserve a voice in the govt. That’s the way we do things in America.
Obama needs to earn some credit. So far, he’s the same old Democrat buy voters machine. The “stimulus” plan proves it. I was hoping for better from him, but expecting what’s happening.
Rich and big business provide lots and lots of jobs. DUH! This class warfare talk is destructive and meaningless. Ignorant, too. There’s nothing wrong in doing well. Ask the Obamas.
It seems like Democrats expect Republicans to roll over. That isn’t healthy for the nation. Debate is good. Remember? Hillary said so.

John McCain is an angry old man who needs to retire from politics altogether. We had enough of him during the election, if people wanted him in office,they would have voted for him. Both parties need to pull togethe and make this work instead of the Republicans hoping it will not work–we listened to them for 8 years and see how we have ended up!! Democrats in office will not stand by and watch the Republicans take over, like they want. They just make me sick–Lindsey Graham, against the Stimulus, but will sure be one of the first in line to grab some money!! Same with the rest of the Republicans!! Let President Obama work it his way and see what happens, instead of being so negative about everything!!

We tried to tell you John, but you wouldn’t listen . . . now it’s too late.

WE SAW WHO MCCAIN PICKED, SARAH PALIN.
Thanks but no thanks, Senator, for your advice.

rplat homework done for YOU.
http://mccainkeatingfive.com/

McCain is an idiot! Someone please tell him that the election is over. He needs to soak his dentures get him a good stiff drink and come to reality. Soon…very soon he will see what a out of touch old spiteful person he is. He still thinks he has a voice. Sad!…very sad! By this summer the Rep will have put their collective foot in thier mouths when the economy starts to rebound.

The Republicans, McCain, Graham and Boehner are against everything but have NO plan themselves. They are the epitome of the corrupt politician.

I am still amazed at how the Republicans (politicians and voters) gave George W. Bush 8 years to screw up this Country, and now they want President Obama to straighten it out in 3 or 4 weeks! This stimulus plan may not work – but I have heard any of the Republicans standing up saying WHAT WILL WORK! So, Republicans – if you don’t have a better idea(s), then shut up! Time will tell if this Stimulus Plan works – the President said ‘it is going to get worse before it gets better’, and that I do believe. There is no overnight solution to this mess.

Anybody else catch McCain on the senate floor while votes were being taken? He acted like a female dog in season. Poor old man thinks he making points and being popular by being used as the GOP dunce.

Sour grapes McBush.

Give Obama and the democrats a chance. The republicans are a bunch of winy babies if things don’t go there way.Face it McCain YOU lost now deal with it!

I neither voted for one or the other but I must say that like Bush is hated so will Obama by the end of his term.We have borrow this trillion dollar bill from China, UAE and others. Our children will pay with interests.It will amount to over $360,000.00 per woman, children and men in the good ol USA.This was in my opinion a plan that will drive the last stake in the heart of America. If a few years I will say ” I told you !!! “

As long as the Rep disagree with it then you know you are doing the right thing. They are self serving and not for all the people. Its good for them to voice their opinions. That way we have a early warning to go the other way. McCain said from his own lips that he was not knowledgeable about the economy and that his main strength was foreign policy. Turns out it’s neither. He needs to shut up as does D Cheney and go spend some of his wife’s millions while vacationing at one of his 7 homes if he can remember where they are. Poor fellow!….. PTSD

OLD. BITTER. ANGRY. LITTLE.

McCain is still clueless. The country rejected the GOPs failed policies and he wonders why those failed policies were not considered by the Change candidate? Geez, maybe the guy should just retire instead of continuing to embarrass himself.

So, why this “Stimulus” legislation wasn’t put on the Internet for 5 days as Obama promised? Two reasons: 1) More and more folks were opposing this massive waste of money, and 2) Pelosi has to leave for France. Most of you guys were bought at $8/ week or about a buck a day to support this nonsense. This certainly makes you much smarter and progressive than Republicans. How pathetic! During his press conference Mr. Obama told us about a broad support from economists and the business leaders. How about naming at least a few of those economists with reputable names? Look at Dow Jones over the last week and read the Wall Street Journal. Which economy Mr. Obama is trying to save? Whatever you say guys, the Main Street cannot work without the Wall Street. Just swim 80 miles south of Key West and see for yourself.

Since when did the government get anything really right?

Ha! The Republicans have driven this country to RUIN >>>
This is a BOLD face LIE. The congress has done this and its run by the democrats.
OH and the republicans. To pin this on a single PARTY is a lie to yourself and others .

..Like you have a better plan >>
Well this plan is out of the 1980′s and it didnt work then either.

Agreed, The Democrat congress has been a major contributeor to the financial crissis!!! They need to fess-up like grown ups.

Who really thinks that Pelosi’s euro trip is not on the taxpayer’s dime?

What do you expect this OLD loser to say.

I thought McCain lost gracefully, but his comment does not prove so.
It is time to retire old man, you will never hear again: “McCain is back”!If that is what you are looking for!

As far as those that Need and don’t Need government I agree except for one thing. That only works when you have honest people in a society. But when have those that have gained wealth on the backs of those that built our country with the bare hands using their money to line the pockets of those that make our laws and regulations to further their needs and increase their wealth then I have a problem with that. By the way I am a middle class American also who is not hurt by this down turn but that doesn’t mean I am blind to what is going on around me. We are where we are because of those few greedy who are not satisfied with just being millionares. They want to be Zillionares. The only way to control greedy dishonest people is with “regulation”.

The only way to control greedy dishonest people is with “regulation”. >>> Regulation to make someone else rich and someone else poor is whats wrong with the government today. Its a complete joke. The honest people that are left are powerless.

Well folks 2012 is coming quick..
Maybe this is the way it was supposed to go.

Obama doesn’t need experience in everything. He needs to be intelligent enough to liste to the wealth of experience he has put around him and make the right decision. He is a lot smarter than the guy that spent the last 8 years struggling with our economy. The man is smart and someone that gets it. Oil is our worst enemy in many ways. Obama is putting us on the path to change this and the GOP is crying foul because their wealth is tied to Oil. We need to control our own country not have smaller countries with oil manipulating us like puppets. Time for change we can believe in.

McCain you continue to tarnish your reputation beyond the election. Get outta the way and take your ‘girlfriend’ Lyndsey with you!

That only works when you have honest people in a society.>>>> Well it doesn’t help when people support the corruption. Welcome to Chicago IL.. Just a little grease on the wheels. Our government is more corrupt than business is and that’s saying something.
Posted by: ChicagoBob | Feb 15, 2009 3:09:35 PM
The only way to control greedy dishonest people is with “regulation”. >>> Regulation to make someone else rich and someone else poor is whats wrong with the government today. Its a complete joke. The honest people that are left are powerless.
Looks like someone can’t see the forest for the trees. You are simply restating what I have stated. WOW! Honest people are not powerless. They have voting power and they used it on Nov 4th 08. Now those that are dishonest are whinning because what they did in the dark is coming to light and they can’t stands it! Every day more and more corruption is coming to light on the Dem and Rep side. I like this! Maybe it will make everyone look over there shoulder and force more people to start doing the right thing. More is better than nothing sort of like those complaining about our president when they didn’t even cast a vote for anyone. How did they help bring change either way?

Is anyone else puzzled as to what exactly is the Republicans end game here? They are crowing about their unanimous opposition to a stimulus package the majority of Americans are in favor of, their only alternative is completely made up of tax cuts with no infrastructure development and they are staring down the last 8-years of abject failure in their core fiscal tenet of “trickle down economics”.
I for one am quite happy the Republicans are so unified in their delusion. I say keep at it, pour it on, promote Limbaugh as your mouthpiece, Palin as your centerpiece and McConnell and Kantor as your “heads of state”. In another 2 to 4 years, the Republicans will become a 3rd rate party, akin to the Greens or Libertarians – and I say good riddance.
But besides that, besides hoping for their oblivion, I’m genuinely puzzled as to what exactly they are aiming for here – if the stimulus is successful, and it will be, they will once again be on the wrong side of history. Keynes notes you could bury government money in the sand and up would spring a lucrative commercial sand excavating market.
The Repubs are only listening to their few remaining constituents, the southern, white, Christian, male vote. Here’s hoping they never catch on.

Derek:the majority of Americans are in favor of.
What planet do you live on.

Well McCain, you lost the election, and rightfully so. Now you have to live with it.

Planet Earth Lizzie, where do you pull your opinions from, Uranus?
I’d argue with you if you had an intellect, but like conservatives, you just bow at the alter of NIMBY.
Plus, you ideas lost, enjoy irrelevance!

McBore , why are you STILL talking?????
No ONE CARES!!!…No one wants to hear from you , you lost!!! just go away , we dont want you anyway near POLICIES or anything to do with changes in Congress.

Hey Lizzie,
My stats for majority support for the stimulus, come from this article, with it’s attached references.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/opinion/15rich.html?_r=1
I’m taking a chance that you’re actually literate, but what the heck!
I’ll lift some copy for you from the article too (just don’t report my to the NY Times), let me try to anticipate your MSM argument coming next.
“…This barrage did shave a few points off the stimulus’s popularity in polls, but its approval rating still remained above 50 percent in all (Gallup, CNN, Pew, CBS) but one of them (Rasmussen, the sole poll the G.O.P. cites). Perhaps the stimulus held its own because the public, in defiance of Washington’s condescending assumption, was smart enough to figure out that the government can’t create jobs without spending and that Bush-era Republicans have no moral authority to lecture about deficits. Some Americans may even have ancestors saved from penury by the New Deal…”

It’s sad, but Senator McCain is to be pitied more than anything else – here’s a guy who served his country admirably, has repeatedly failed in his life’s ambition, and is now enormously bitter. Here’s hoping he turns it around, somehow. Therapy, maybe.

McCain is an angry, bitter man. He was rejected by the voters and needs to be totaly ignored.

Mysterious Ways of the Lord
I never thought I would enjoy watching the news about an airplane crash. But the Lord works in mysterious ways, and with a sense of humor!
First: No one died!
Second: The passengers standing on the wing appeared to be walking on water!
Third: It removed Obama from the headlines for 24 hours!
Fourth: No one in the government could take credit for the miracle! and
Fifth: It wasn’t George Bush’s fault!

McCain is right.
he did loose. but he is right about Obama. Obama has had a rocky start. why would he want to burden us with this stimulus bill?
someone tell me how 30 million for Pelosi’s mice is consdider acceptable? 30 million could go towards heating homes for the poorest family.
600 for new government cars, what is wrong with the current one? or why not use amtrak? after all we are spending like a billion dollars on amtrak. imgaine if they had taken out that 600 for new cars and used it on repairing bridges?
money for Global warming? what global warming? it is a controversal issue, not everyone believes it is true and polling shows that it is the least of america’s concern at the moment. so they could had used that money on something else, like road repiars in major city.
McCain is right, Obama is off to a rocky start.
hotair.com has avideo of Obama’s promise to have a 5 day wait period before signing any bills (he broke that with SCHIP-which by the way, will go to fund illegal children not just american kids.). obama promised to go thru it line for line before he signed it, and he has yet to do this so far, he has had 2 vacations and 1 escape. i would like to see him explain to us why spending 30 million dollars on mice is more important than heating homes for the poorest family, or fixing roads (that wold create more jobs right there).

OK no one else wants to tell him I will. Ted, the election is over! Obama won! His birth certificate has been authenticated! McCain lost and is still in denial…it appears he is not the only one. Get a grip! He is not stealing the damn census. He wants to make sure it is accurate….something that hasn’t happened before. That what you and the other Rep are afraid of….the truth. You and your party’s days of corruption are coming to a close and you guys are hating it. 52% of the country is loving it. You guys seem really frustrated now. It is funny watching Rep after Rep every day on TV whinning about this whinning about that like little spoiled brats. You guys have screwed things up for so long as Derek has obviously pointed out that it is killing you that people have realized your evil corrupt ways and rejected them on 04 Nov 08. Run and buy some guns and oh!…the sky is falling! LOL

With an approval rating in the upper 60s I would say he was off to a darn good start.
I think John ment a bad start for the GOP.

justahousewife/jaj-the sun is the biggest most powerful source of energy we have at our disposal yet we have chosen not to use it or only a fraction of it. It is free and when it runs out of energy I don’t think we will have much need for it anyway…know what I mean…. we’ll be gone to. Just think where our nation would be right now if we powered our country mostly with the sun and wind. We would not be controlled or owned by other nations as has and is happening today. If nothing else Obama recognizes that and is trying to make a change but the Rebs make so much money via oil they don’t want to let go. Yes it will be painful but we need to start trying to get ownership of our contry back from those that choose to do us harm. If that means I have to pay a more taxes so be it. American should be owned by Americans not others. Change you can believe in!

McCain still doesn’t get it…it is the policy that he espouses that brought into this mess so it can’t be the same principle that can clean it….
we’ve tried and tested his formula…it doesn’t work…
let’s try Obama’s principle this time….the majority voted for him and trusted him….McCain should start learning…he’s downward the learning curve and yet he has not learnt a lesson….

obama is more partisan than Bush. He, Pelosi and Reid will ride this horse as far and as fast as they can go. They’re opportunists and govern as such.

How conveniently John McCain forget Bush and Cheney’s Iraq war that cost us 1.5 trillion or more when all costs are going to be added up. President Obama’s stimulus program is 500 billion dollars less than Bush and Cheney’s spent in Iraq! We never saw Sen. Lindsey Graham jumping up and down and pirouetting on the US Senate floor protesting for that kind of self-destructive pork. The same goes for John McCain, who’s jumping up and down like screaming most illogical and absurd things. Other Republican leaders like Kantor, Boehner, Kyle, and Mitch McConnell were no better. Playing the same old wasted, tried and proven wrong, dead Republican politics. As usual they are misleading American people; they are pretending to safe guard public money and interested. They conveniently forget they are the ones who got us to this situation in the first place, that requires this kind of drastic measures. These Republicans are an insult to the intelligence American public, besides they go as far as to propose the same fail policies. When you think how badly Republicans have mismanaged America is truly heartbreaking. But John McCain goes on TV mouthing the same nonsense that George Bush did, for eight years. Republicans are so struck in the past like John McCain isn’t smart enough to understand he has to move beyond the conservative mantra of “Tax Cuts” “Small Government” “No Regulation” “Let Marketplace Decides…” I can understand, a man like John McCain who doesn’t know how to use a computer, can he really understand what future holds for America. John McCain’s type of politics is over for good. The debate and the experiment have been ended. Americans have the proof of such policies and practice. They have discarded it. All that dogma belongs to the ash-heap of history. Fairly and squarely it is obvious Republicans are holding America from going forward by their narrow-minded, provincial and past-based politics. If Republicans refuse to change and adopt themselves to suit America’s future they will be left behind. And that’s already happening!

You do realize don’t you that when troops are in harms way you must give them the money they need. At least I would hope that would be a bi-partisan truth.

Keith, you’re showing your age by immature comments. You need to broaden your horizons and turn the station off CNN.

It has hundreds of billions of dollars in projects which will not yield jobs.”
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I would like McCain to list them for me, Which projects and how much is being spent on them. Item by Item please. 100s of millions we are talking about here. Could be though that he is talking about the TAX cuts that were put in for the GOP.
Now in the old days the press would ask him those questions.

I say passing any bill without regard for the people who opposed it is destructive and we have 2 bills which were viamently opposed (TARP and Stimulus). The government is not longer serving with the consent of the governed.
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Who opposed? The majority were for a stimulus bill not opposed. So you don’t vote because you are in the minority? Obama was elected and the Democrats are in power because the Majority of the people voted for them. They are serving the consent of the govern. That is how it works.
If you don’t vote stop your complaining.

Everyone is looking to pick up the bread crumbs or loaves of bread dropped off by the Government. Great.. What does everyone do when this is spent? Where is the growth in this bill? They are already talking of 2 trillion more in borrowing to spend on the banks. Just the Spending bill along will cost us over 3.2Trillion dollars. Whats another 2 trillion in debt eh? Where is recovery form all this debt?
Whats the plan. This is like going to Iraq and not knowing what to do if you win. Well we are now DROWNING in debt. WHERE IS THE PLAN TO GET OUT?
ROFL.. Democrats have been led to hate the others while Republicans have been led to hate the others. Well thats doing us a lot of GOOD. The congress is selling my great grand children into bondage with debt. PROUD day AMERICA.

Keith, you’re showing your age by immature comments. You need to broaden your horizons and turn the station off CNN.
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FYI beatriceCee I am 54 years old and have traveled the world since I was 19, retire military 23+ years so don’t go there. The TV where I work which happens to be in Kuwait stays on FOX which is where idiots like Hannity sprew hatred and garbage like you. I spent 2 years in Iraq and 8 over here. This recession is affecting me but I am nnot self centered or self serving like you and yours so it matters to me what happens to other Americans who are not as fortunate as I am. By the way I aam a Sr. Operations Analyst. Now that being said why don’t you go feed the chickens…

McCain did go out of the beltway — he got Sarah Palin….duh

beatriceCee-Don’t need to watch CNN. I retired from the military and studied McCain’s career. He has been a fraud his whole career leaning on the backs of his father and grandfather but you wouldn’t know anything about that. You obviously have been watching to much FOX network and must be a Limbaugh diciple. It’s probably best that you bark up another tree because you out of your league.

Well during all this I decided to have my IQ tested again to see if I was really smart enough to understand all of this. My IQ score was 132. Then I was rated on my Voter IQ for Voting for B.O. Of course that was “0″, so my average came to “66″ or “Definite feeble-mindedness” D A M N Government!

ChicagoBob:”The government can NOT sustain spending since it makes NO products.”
Right, all those roads, hydroelectric dams, security forces, secure currency, and such are imaginary and wholly useless.

It isn’t even debateable that Obama is off to a bad start. He has had four cabinet nominees withdraw. He has destroyed any hope of bipartisanship with his “I won” comments. And worst, he has passed a stimulus bill that will harm our economy with really no Republican support so he and his party will take all of the blame for the economic failure. Compared to Clinton, Obama shows that he is very inexperienced.

Y’all are funny. Some mention “the big picture”, but don’t frame it in any context. Others hammer out statistics which structure the past, but do not predict the future, especially during these unusual times.
My observation is that too many of you are still looking forward to change, seemingly totally unaware of or misjudging the importance of the MASSIVE changes that has ALREADY occurred. Like Hillary and the Republicans you’ll wait for it to slap you in the face before you will give it credence. Fortunately for us, my favorite self-quote applies here: “The universe does not wait for acceptance or approval. What is, is.”
The only way to ride a wave is to see or sense it coming and get out in front of it. Otherwise it washes right over you and you get left behind. The Republicans are trying to pretend the wave of change never happened and are floundering around attempting business usual. A pity; the emperor has new clothes, a pair of jeans and a T-shirt.

Shut up McCain and do the economy a favor by going on a shopping spree with your wife.

It is funny to see alll the Rep complaining about the stimulas package because they get nothing out of it except those that won’t realize it until they see it in their pockets. Where were you guys when GWB spent 11 tillion during his two adminstrations. Look where that go us! Obama has only been in office three weeks and all of you Rep are crying like little babies that have had their pacifier taken. Stop comparing Obama to other presidents. Obama is Obama and that is who he will be. You even complain because he doesn’t wear a jacket in the white house. It’s his home now and he is in charge. Like he said “he won” and if you don’t like it “tough s—!” All you guys are doing is making it worse for you when his policies start working. As I predicted months ago Obama will get the ball rolling and in 2012 he will win by an even larger margin. I also predict more members of the GOP will seek counseling in 2012.

Scotti wrote: “Oh brother. Republicans never quit playing bipartisanship, never quit playing politics as usual, have been proven wrong, they’re hypocrits to the core. They’re bald faced liars.” ============Speaking of liars, remember this one: “There is not one single earmark in this bill.” Sound familiar?

dragoon70056: “Speaking of liars, remember this one: “There is not one single earmark in this bill.” Sound familiar? ”
Unlike that meaningless mob chant “Pork!”, earmark actually has a set definition. And no, there are no earmarks in the stimulus bill last I heard.

jaj:”30 million for salt marsh mice. hope and change anyone?”
An ANONYMOUS GOP STAFFER claims that some agency will spend $30 million on this project if they get funding from this bill. There is NOTHING IN THE BILL about the salt marsh mice – this whole accusation is based on an anonymous rumor. The right wing is gullible as ever I guess.

Hmmn McCain says, “What would I have done”. This is the candidate that said, during his campaign that he lost, “The economy if fundamentally sound”.

jhw539-
please explain to me about the 30 million dollar we are going to spend on pelosi’s mice?? what would you call that?

Obama will put bills on the web but right now getting the economy back up is more important. No one has time for you Rep to him and haw for weeks and months and then say ok. You just want to waste time and then say ok when it is too late and then say the I told you so. Obama is not falling for it. Your ploys worked in the past but not any more. He has only been in office for three weeks and aleady you Reb are complaining about where is the peace. Bush spent 8 years screwing it up and you want results in three weeks. Give me a break! There has already been a change in their attitudes towards America. Holbrooke and Clinton are already at work and soon you shall seen a different attitude towards the U.S. It’s amazing how much patience Rep have with the own but when a Dem is in office they loose all rationale or maybe SOME of them never had any. Most Rep are patient and giving him time to work but there are those that think outside the relm of reality. I think we should give Obama 8 years like we gave Bush. That’s only fair right?

jaj:”why dont you look it up in the stimulus and show us that 30 million earmark for the mice is false. i mean your party rushed it thru so maybe you should look it up and tell us.”
What? How can I look up something that’s NOT IN THE BILL? Now you can make up any fantasy about what is in the bill and I can’t disprove it because – oddly – I can’t find it in the bill??? Seriously, what are you asking for and does this pass as critical thought from Republicans now?
I think I’ll go debate calculus with my 3 year old. I think I’ll get a lot further.

is jhw539 Gibbs?? you sound a lot like him. whenever you ask a question he gives a runaround answer with no facts.
the man you voted for is an empty suit.

jaj:”is jhw539 Gibbs?? you sound a lot like him. whenever you ask a question he gives a runaround answer with no facts.”
I answered your question: THERE IS NO $30 MILLION IN THE BILL FOR SALT MARSH MICE. The bill is publicly available online – why are you lying about this? You cannot cite the portion of the bill it is in because it’s not in there. If you’re not a liar, why can’t you tell me where it is – surely Hannity or Rush has been trumpeting the line and quote for days by now.
Or, most likely, you’re a bored college kid who gets kicks by seeing how many people you can annoy by playing stupid.

There goes McBush again. He should go join his wife in the tanning booth and shut up. What do he know. He’s done! Senility has crept in. Same ole’ partisan bulls… Same ole’ spill, same ole’ man. Never did answer the questions in the interview. His state has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country. Smarty should have seen it coming! After all, he’s been around for “centuries”. Fisal conservative my a.., didn’t he want to buy up all the mortgages…darn that would have cost a forture, say 10 billion….now he’s attempting to even the score by “crying about a bad start”

jhw539-
House Republicans are challenging Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claim that the massive stimulus spending bill contains no pet projects after uncovering in the bill more than $30 million for wetlands conservation in her San Francisco Bay area district, including work she previously championed to protect the salt marsh harvest mouse.
“This sounds like spending projects that have been supported by a certain powerful Democrat in the past,” said Michael Steel, spokesman for House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican.
and Keith-
trust me we heard it the last 8 years. “BUSH lied KIDS died” sound familiar? what abot Katrina?? he was crucified! regardless of the 30,000 national guards that was immedietly deployed that day. BTW i am still waiting for obama to tour KY, they have been out of power and all…
there is a video ( a real live one incase you dismiss it as fake) and article on gateway pundit (also on other sites too) this democrat was talking about how our money market was breached on sept 11, 2009 and money was disappearing (500 billion). it was the democrat taht was pushing for the first Tarp bill that was passed (remember it failed the first time when the republicans got up and voted no) the dems were pushing hard for TARP 1 and TARP 2

Is he still alive

McCain is a bitter loser. He expressed his support for an alternative to the stimulus bill that passed congress–a $2.5 trillion tax cut plan–that, yes, would have created more debt than the stimulus plan and would have left us with nothing to show for it but more riches for the likes of the McCains.
He really should just stay in Arizona and be quiet. I am thankful every single day that we didn’t end up with him as president.

McCain is our real war Hero.He is a great American.His motto:” country first”he speaks the truth.I like him.

The Republicans, McCain, Graham and Boehner are against everything but have NO plan themselves. They are the epitome of the corrupt politician.
Posted by: Larry | Feb 15, 2009 2:04:50 PM
If you were not blinded so much by your stupidity you would notice that the man you love to hate George Bush has had his legacy continued by Mr. Obama. Real Repulicans did not agree with the way Bush turned into a Big Govenment pres.
True Conservatives will be kicking your buts soon so get ready! This will be fun!!

NEWS FLASH to Johnny McSame – You LOST the election, PRESIDENT OBAMA and Congress passed his Economic Stimulus Bill!!! Go back to one of your seven houses and sit down somewhere. LOSER!!!

I say get a life, for all purpose Obama finished with all dis busines.

McCain has not been outside of the beltway in so long, maybe he does not understand the will of the people! He and Graham can’t find a way to help the American middle class because they are so busy “carrying water” for the rich and ultra rich.
Robbing America of family wage jobs while taking a budget surplus to the largest deficit was done by the Republicans using completely non-partisan techniques. It is now time they sample a slice of pasture pie.

It would seem that a person that cannot remember how many homes he has would find that doing the same old thing is great but trying to change would be a no no. Tell me what is wrong with that you have to much money and don’t care about people maybe if you lived in middle class you would think a little different. I think it is a case of the rich getting richer with McCain. Glad your not my president I would really be in a bind.

You “poor” are going to stay that way
for the next 10-20 years. Obama and the
Dems ordained it in the stimulus package. Get on your knees and accept
it. Stay on your knees as you live it.
Kneel before your master. Plantation
massah be a brother now.

Who cares about John McCain’s opinion? This is the man who selected Sarah Palin to be his running mate (a heartbeat away from the Presidency). He has shown such poor judgment in the past, he has lost credibility.

I gotta say…. John McCain is smart as a Fox. He Didn’t Want To Be President and Get this Mess. That’s why he took Sarah Palin. But it Also went to Prove, Sarah had More Experience than Obama, yet Obama was elected by a money machine. Look at the Facts.

Obama is as far as I am concernced way
over his hear in the job. Having
less than a 100 days experience as a
Senator who apparently was nothing more than a dummy for the Chicago hoods and
surrounding himself with amateurs in
DC has shown the American public what
600 Million has bought! Exactly nothing
but the same old rhetoric over and over.
We need someone to stand up to the likes
of Pelosi and the joker, Harry Reid
who have proven that power corrupts.

My McCain/Palin yard sign is tucked safely away. When the fallout of this atrocity begins to dawn on all of you, I will proudly put it back in my yard. I will plaster a “I voted for Mac” bumper sticker on my car and laugh as I watch you all scrape away at your hopey dopey stickers. What a bunch of rubes you were!

Hey Mcgoof. It would take two to be bipartisan. President added tax cuts, even though they are not as stimulative as infrastructure spending. And what did you want, more tax cuts. We have already been there and done that. It didn’t work.

Most of these old and embittered Religious Right Republicans are just clinging to their guns and religion, hoping for President Obama to fail thus bringing about the “end of times” so they can be “raptured” into their delusional heaven with their 72 virgins – or am I mixing them up here with that other lot of religious whack jobs?

Capt D – “Where I come from, they shoot people for that” Oh really? Well please get yourself back to Iran as fast as possible. We certainly don’t want the likes of you in our liberal and secular democracy.

Well at least Sarah Palin while being from “outside the beltway” and some would say this galaxy is not on McCain’s list.

Like we care what McCain and the rest of his robber baron cohorts think. They’ve pillaged this country for centuries and we are through with them. Obama’s only mistake was thinking he should even try bi-partisanship. The GOPers don’t know the meaning of the word. Why the media gives credence to anything they say is completely beyond me. WAKE UP! Listen to the American people!

I live in Arizona and I will not be voting for McCain in 2010 or Kyl when his time is up. Throw the Repub bums out. They are absolutely worthless to America!

Hey all you foolish liberal clones….
Why didnt all those democrats who claim they are so concerned with the American worker add 9 Billion to that huge Pork Pie for the continuation of the F-22 Raptor????
There was a simple, straight forward appropriation that could have “saved” almost 100,000 jobs!
No, instead it was more important to hold closed door meetings and create a bill that is over 2 reams of paper!!!
So much for the liberal BS of caring about the welfare of the workers!

updated 12:37 a.m. ET Feb. 16, 2009
WASHINGTON – Just days after Americans honored the 200th anniversary of his birth, 65 historians ranked Abraham Lincoln as the best U.S. president.
Former President George W. Bush, who left office last month, was ranked 36th out of the 42 men who had been chief executive by the end of 2008, according to a survey conducted by the cable channel C-SPAN.
Bush scored lowest in international relations, where he was ranked 41st, and in economic management, where he was ranked 40th. His highest ranking, 24th, was in the category of pursuing equal justice for all. He was ranked 25th in crisis leadership and vision and agenda setting. McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time. McSame!

It’s really stunning that President Obama hasn’t been in office for a month yet and the Republicans, specifically, McCain, is telling us all that Obama is failing. Do the Repubs think that by saying this over and over again, it will become true? There can be no bipartisanship if the Repubs are only interested in taking their ball home and refuse to play. I know both sides will have a difference of opinion but the Repubs sound like they are whining. We’ve just been through 8 years of Republicans running things badly so unless they have some very constructive, helpful critiquing of what’s going on, then those Repubs, especially the losing McCain, need to take a silent back seat.

Mccain the last I checked The country REJECTED YOU AND THE REPUBLICANS,Amazing
this man voted with The Disater of a President Bush 95 Percent of the time Mcsame if you are against the Stimulis Bill then it must be good! REPUBLICANS GET A NEW PARTY REINVENT YOURSELF W DESTROYED YOU!

” If Republican politicians are so deeply opposed to President Obama’s economic recovery plan, they should refuse to take the money… If cutting taxes for the rich and for big corporations and promoting foreign trade alone could energize the economy, we wouldn’t be in this mess. But maybe S.C. Gov. Sanford is right. Let’s keep our federal money — give it to states where the governors will actually put it to good use. ”
- Paul Begala, CNN Contributor

Angie, the last you heard was wrong! The country didn’t reject him, only 54% of the nation did.
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Posted by: dilligaf | Feb 16, 2009 11:40:41 AM
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That would be the majority 265 to 173

GOP renews focus on deficit
Republicans rarely worried aloud about the deficit during the spending spree of George W. Bush’s presidency, as Bush largely ignored the mounting red ink as he waged war in Iraq and battled terrorism. Many conservative Republicans, including Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), blamed last year’s congressional and presidential losses on the lack of fiscal discipline shown by their party under Bush’s leadership.
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Keith.
LOL…so this is how you defend the trillions of dollars Obama, Geithner & crew “hope” will fix the problem?
No diect soultions , just pile and pile of money with obscure language about how to actually use it. No language on HOW to implement oversight!
But its ok to just spend spend spend at rates never before even discussed let alone implemented, because Bush had deficits!
Bush was wrong in your view, so that makes it ok for Obama & Dems to go another order of magnitude or more!
Perfect Liberal Logic
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Hate to bust your bubble Mike but those are not my words and did not come from me. I simply cut and pasted what is in the news today and not from CNN I might add. You Reb always make assumptions!

MIKE C
The difference in the Presidents spending,
BUSH-BILLONS AND BILLONS IN THE WAR IN IRAQ BILLONS OF TAX CUTS FOR THE MOST WEALTHY.
OBAMA-BILLIONS SPENT IN AMERICA TO REBUILD, AND TEND TO THINGS BUSH NEGLECTED BECAUSE OF IRAQ, OBAMA IS INVESTING IN AMERICA AND THE FUTURE!
BUSH INVESTED IN IRAQ! IF WE CAN SPEND BILLIONS TO REBUILD IRAQ WHY NOT WORRY ABOUT AMERICA FOR ONCE?

Where’s all the talk on the buyout bill from Bush. He gave away millions,millions that paid bonuses and has no accountability. The same bill that McCain postponed his campaigne for and critized Obama for not doing the same. Both of them were wrong for approving it. I beleive that the Republicans will view every thing that Obama does as the wrong thing and will continue to divide this nation. This is a time when we need to come together to keep our country strong. There will be plenty of mistakes in this administration just as all the past administations had. This guy has been in office for just weeks….give him a chance.
Why is it that only the rich are considered presidential material anyway?
United we stand, divided we fall…just as the song says.

LOL, Keith, I could not care less if you believe it or not…your the one who posted it!
It is not my responsibilty to try figure out your motives or google every post some fool liberal throws up here!
Angie,
No one said NOt to spend, the question how much, By the wat you need to change your B to a TR under obama’s numbers.
By the time we have to account for paying for the money we need to borrow for this the cost is in TRILLIONS, not billions.
As I have been posting here today, and NONE of you have yet to form any kind of response, WHY has Obama been sitting on the F-22 Raptor program? Continuing that program “SAVES” nearly 100,000 jobs!!
We can put together this huge pile of paper that no one know if it will work. We can spend 650,000,000 more dollar to try convince the public that the digital TV switch is going to get thrown ON in June, but we can’t allocated the money to save good payng AMERICAN jobs!!!!
WHY ANGIE….WHY??????

Mike C: updated 12:37 a.m. ET Feb. 16, 2009
WASHINGTON – Just days after Americans honored the 200th anniversary of his birth, 65 historians ranked Abraham Lincoln as the best U.S. president.
Former President George W. Bush, who left office last month, was ranked 36th out of the 42 men who had been chief executive by the end of 2008, according to a survey conducted by the cable channel C-SPAN.
Bush scored lowest in international relations, where he was ranked 41st, and in economic management, where he was ranked 40th. His highest ranking, 24th, was in the category of pursuing equal justice for all. He was ranked 25th in crisis leadership and vision and agenda setting. McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time. McSame!
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Mike C – couldn’t help but notice you didn’t respond this bit of info that was also in the news today. Yeah! I know the truth hurts doesn’t it? That how you Reb are..you avoid reality and live in a dream world while in the mean time everybody suffers from your selfish stupidity. Why don’t you go fire up some of your stash and watch some cartoons. Surely you can handle that?

Keith,
talk about A.S.S.U.M.E…..LOL
I never once said Bush was a great president, He kept the country safe after 9/11, but certainly messed up in other areas. Again you make assumptions about things you have no knowledge about!
In regards to the economic crisis, he has his share of blame to shoulder as do Democrats like Barney Frank!
I could not care less about what some group thinks of his place in history.
By the way, Lincoln was hardly the most popular president when he was assinated.
Many in the country blamed him for a horrible war. Time allowed for a much different evaluation of his presidency.
“Abraham Lincoln was nominated by the Republican Party, which was renamed the “National Union Party” for the 1864 election. Lincoln’s nomination was not unanimous, however, as 22 disgruntled opponents of Lincoln voted for Ulysses S. Grant, who was not a candidate. Seeing an opportunity to work with the War Democrats under the Union banner, the convention nominated Military-Governor Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, a War Democrat, as Lincoln’s running mate over incumbent Vice President Hannibal Hamlin and three other War Democrats – former New York Senator Daniel S. Dickinson, Buchanan cabinet member Joseph Holt and General Ben Butler”
“The 1864 election was the first time since 1812 that a presidential election took place during a war. For much of 1864, Lincoln himself believed he had little chance of being re-elected. Early on, McClellan was thought to be a heavy favorite to win the election. But McClellan’s chances of victory faded after Union victories in Georgia and Virginia, followed by the negotiated withdrawal of John C. Frémont’s Radical Republican Party candidacy.”
“President Lincoln wanted to reconcile the nation with kindness and forgiveness. He stated that the South had not really left the union, it was only some southern people who had rebelled. He wanted to settle it like a family fight. However, not all Northerners agreed with the President, many people were angry and wanted to see those responsible in the South punished. Others felt that the South had suffered enough through the war.”
Time helped everyone to understand what Lincoln’s presidency really meant. The same is true for ALL presidents!
I ‘m sure Bush will always rank low, but it is rather foolish to try to rank any presidents total achievements or failures 4 weeks after his term ends!
“As far as the F-22 no one repsonded because people of sick of war and that’s the only thing you warmongers can think of to make money and jobs. F-22 won’t make our country any better as far as the quality of life.”
So here we finally get to the meat of it all. The only jobs that count are the ones you liberals agree with or get to put your “stamp of approval ” on…
Nice to know how your now the one in charge of deciding what jobs a needed and what ones aren’t!
Find 9 billion in the pork pile right now..today, that GUARANTEES 100,000 jobs!
It should not be that hard to do, after all it is supposed to give us 3.5 million…surely you can identify a guaranteed 100,000 !!!!!!
The F-22 program’s jobs are nearly 100,000 good paying jobs. People who will spend money that will get the economy moving if they know they are secure! But just like a good little liberal robot, follow those foolish walking oders & talking points.
By the way, you might just want to check with President before you throw around “warmonger”. He still has major plans for Afghanistan.
LOL…talk about “Transparent”…LOL
keep promoting your view of what jobs are valid and which are not, the tidal wave of ’10 will wash you right out to nice lonely island….LOL
“You definately are limited in your ability to think and analyze which explains why you are a follower and not a leader. If you stop listening to Limbaugh and McSane you might learn something. You are a very ignorant person with respect to where the US needs to go in the future and what the majority of people need. You are smoking way to much weed!”
WOW….you got all the answers don’t you. Perhaps you should read a history book and stop listening to Chris Mathews & Keith Olberman.
I am not blinded by exteme partisanship the way you are. I know the country needs a solid military and the last time we listened to idiots like you, Carter had cut the b@lls off the military to the point we could not even pull off a rescue attempt of the hostages in Iran!

the gop love war and our bloated military which cost us what about 50 billion a month but they just love cutting funding for schools and teh working class and poor….

Don’t even criticize Obama in this day and age. The republicans messed up so that makes it okay that a dem does it now. I get so sick and tired of the defense of Obama based on something that Bush did. Two wrongs don’t make a right. McCain is totally correct because Obama is a liar. Always has been..always will be. Google all his lies. He is a liar. Do not believe a word that comes out of his mouth.

Welcome to the Obama spendalathon folks. Watch your money go up in smoke and bail out people who made poor decisions. This is the new world order and the Change you can believe in, ye hi. Welcome to The united states of europe.

Most of us still want to think of the U.S. in the best of terms — the world’s shining beacon and example for how to ensure liberty, justice and opportunity for all. But America voted for change in the last election, in case you haven’t noticed, Senator. So prepare yourself for what’s coming: nationalization of banks and other industries that are critical to our economy, or at least more government regulation and oversight; universal health care; higher taxes on the wealthiest among us, and; more spending on infrastructure and social programs like education. Read all about it at http://kgarry.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/capitalism-and-socialism-both-evil-extremes-of-economic-theory/.

Regarding McCain’s opinions, he doesn’t have any credibility with me after he stumbled over so many issues in the campaign. His knowledge was disappointing considering the number of years he has been in the senate.

Kent: Thanks for the link. May you live in interesting times.

Sour grapes.
All of the trillions they wasted in Iraq and NOW they’re complaining? I wrote to the leadership of both sides and told them to stop the politics as usual and figure out some way to get along.

McCain says “Get people who haven’t been inside the Beltway, who haven’t been part of the incestuous relationship that have caused the special interest and the national interest to somehow be distorted to a degree that the American people have lost confidence in what we do in Washington.”(close quote)
Oh my God, you fricking old hypocrite: just look in the mirror. You just described yourself. Why would listen to you, an old Washington insider that was key cheerleader in running up a 9 trillion dollar national debt and has stood in the way of all social progress since you’ve been in Washington these many decades. John McCain is typical of Republicans in general. They accuse others of what they themselves are the chief culprits in doing.

I have a great idea. Why don’t all these republicans who voted against the stimulus not accept any of it’s money for their states. If McCain, Cantor, Boehner, McConnell and all their Just Say No pals are going to talk the talk…then let them walk the walk.

I caught McCain on the Sunday talk circuit and it was good for me. He reminded me of all the reasons I didn’t vote for him. He is vain, egotistical, out of touch and most of all he makes stuff up.
A few months ago he was telling us Obama was a Muslim who palled around with terrorists. Now he whines that Obama didn’t let him write the bill so it was not non-partisan. He is a grumpy old disgruntled guy who is still seething that Americans didn’t choose him.

wow….lots of blind sheep on here posting today. “we won, you lost so go away…nah nah nah nah nah nah” You sound like little kids and are obviously about as knowlegeable. Forget for one second that you voted for Obama and objectively evaluate what he said during the election and what he has done since winning. He hasn’t followed through on many of his promises and he is using fear to win support….kind of like he accused republicans of doing. Some have obviously bought his statement that our economy is comparable to the great depression despite the facts. Unemployment was more than 3x what it is now and something like 10,000 banks folded during the depression. This bill was as partisan as they come and we just borrowed over $1 Trillion(including interest) on a “stimulus bill” that is largely intended to increase government spending and control. The same wasteful gov’t that got us in this mess in the first place. People borrowing money they couldn’t repay is what got us here and now our gov’t is doing the same thing on a massive scale to fix the problem!?…so please forget what party you belong to for a minute and think for yourselves for once!

billybob…good post …but apparently the deadbeats on this blog are people who want you to work to take your money, want the government to solve their problems…and hate America and anybody who disagrees with them…you can’t even hold a logical debate because they will call you names…they are the problem in America they’re just too stupid to understand it… so now watch how they will get violent and call me names after this post

I could never understand how Hitler was able to get people to do the horrendous things he ordered until this year. Now, im not trying to in any way say Obama would commit the kinds of atrocities the Nazi’s did, but I find it rather amazing what an eloquent speaker can convince people to do. Many people are so enamored with President Obama that they don’t bother to question anything he says or does….which is very scary to me! I hope this doesn’t continue bc many of his ideas and policies are extremely radical and could cause some serious damage to the country as we know it.

At least Obama is an eloquent speaker. Look what Bush got everybody to bite off on and he couldn’t even speak properly. At least this president has an IQ that is measurable. Reb call it bi-partisan when you do everything their way and non-partisan when they can’t have their way. They have been whinning since Obama started his campaign and contiplating suicide since Nov 4th. You Rep need to get a grip and accept the fact that you lost because Americans choose a new direction. I suggest you go read a book called “Who moved the cheese”. It’s a short read so even Billy Bob will be able to read it and if he can’t understand it phillysmart do me the honor and explain it to him. Six months from now it may finally sink in that you Rep lost and your bellies full of crow. Your days of corruption, making and passing laws to favor your agenda are over for good. No longer will the people put of with your s—. The sooner you guys come to grip with this the sooner you can began your healing process. Maybe Limbaugh will overdose on his percocet and tell all his followers to jump of a cliff….hmmmm!

Poor John McCain: Unless Obama adopts the Republican platform he will not find
anything good on what Obama does. Why
doesn’t he just scream like his intellectual mentor Rush and pray for Obama “to fail.” Sad that he hasn’t seen that his relevancy has passed him.
If you want to help the country and clean the mess that GW left sell some of your properties and send the proceeds
to the US Treasury.

Obama is gonna finish what Bush started. $$$$$$$$