Topic: Both sides of his mouth
Lynann's photo
Thu 10/02/08 01:11 PM
Okay this is a classic!

McCain really does want it both ways doesn't he? One day he votes for the bail-out appear and says he is pleased to vote for it (on MSNBC)then the next day he appears (on FOX) and urges a veto?!? Does he really think Americans are this stupid?

He must. Makes sense though as so many FOX viewers seem to only beleive what they hear on FOX despite the facts.

Really...what the hell is he thinking?

Is he saying as president he would veto a bill that as a senator he voted for?

He did say until things are fixed (at some magical unspecified date by financial fairy's perhaps) how would he fix them as President if he cannot even sort out if this is a good bill or bad?

He said would stay in Washington (isn't it his job to help forge legislation), vowing to not leave( which he did) until a good bill was passed?

McCain appears a little confused.

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From http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/02/mccain-veto-bailout/

Last night, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) voted in favor of the $700 billion financial bailout bill, saying we “square in the greatest financial crisis of our lifetimes” and that he was “pleased” to be voting for the bill. McCain also told NPR he was “guardedly optimistic” the House would support the new version, which was packed with “sweeteners” aimed to bring House conservatives on board, as TP noted yesterday.

Though those “sweeteners” angered the MSNBC pundits this morning, McCain was hardly bothered, never mentioning them yesterday or during today’s cable news interviews. But when Joe Scarborough asked McCain about the pork projects, McCain flipped back to his standard anti-pork crusade, going so far as to suggest that that President Bush should veto the bill, “no matter what the stakes are:”

SCARBOROUGH: Why did these items have to be in this critical bill?

MCCAIN: Well that’s just the way the system is working in Washington and the reason why it’s got to be fixed, and it’s got to be changed. And no matter what the stakes are, you’ve got to stop this by starting to veto bills that come across the president’s desk. … It’s insanity and it’s obscenity, because it’s a waste of taxpayers’ dollars and it goes on, and until we stop it, until we get frankly a president who will say, I’m gonna veto these bills, I’m gonna make the people famous that put them on there, uh, famous.

Jill298's photo
Thu 10/02/08 01:14 PM
Edited by Jill298 on Thu 10/02/08 01:15 PM
Of course he's confused... look at his pic for VP:wink: I mean come on... he picked a pitbull with lipstick laugh