Posts Tagged ‘John McCain’
Military Spending: Priceless
It was clear that John McCain was in good cop mode during his appearance on Meet the Press, but I couldn’t help notice the speed with which he transitioned from bitching about the budget situation, to endorsing the indefinite deployment of troops in Afghanistan.
It’s rare see to quite such a quick transition from calls [...]
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Tags: John McCain, Meet the Press, Military Spending
60s Amnesty
A few weeks ago I remember Atrios joking that every 4 years for eternity he’ll be saying that this election is the last one that will be re-fighting the battles of the 60s.
I’m definitely with him on thinking that both 2004 and 2008 would have seemed like good chances to have an election with not [...]
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Tags: Bill Ayers, John McCain
Memo to John McCain:
It’s absurd to be talking about how awesome the 1983 Social Security reforms were, because they were “bipartisan”, when they included tax increases you won’t support to fix the problem now.
Also if the 1983 Social Security compromise was such a great fix why do we still need to fix social security? [...]
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Tags: Entitlement, John McCain, John McCain Social Security Benefits Cut, Presidential Debate, Social Security
My standing theory is McCain’s healthcare plan is the single biggest unexploited liability in this campaign. John McCain’s healthcare plan would create a huge tax increase on people that get their insurance their jobs. Let me repeat the key part of that: John McCain’s health care plan would create a huge tax increase.
No matter [...]
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Tags: John McCain, John McCain Healthcare plan, John McCain's tax increases
Anyone else notice that when Sarah Palin says ‘America’ she doesn’t pronounce it like more then 99 percent of Americans do. The very name of our country sounds foreign coming out of her mouth. Nothing profound in this regard, but it seems notable.
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Tags: America, John McCain, Presidential Elections, Presidential Politics, Sarah Palin
So McCain can’t be bothered to actually read the Hank Paulson proposal to spend 700 Billions dollars.
Commence countdown to Republican hack saying, “Do you know where else he wasn’t reading legislative proposals?”
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Tags: Ignorance, John McCain
Over at Matthew Yglesias’s blog you can read all about how Bush lobbied the Iraqi government to delay the withdrawal date to help John McCain.
Hey, nothing wrong with getting U.S. soldiers killed to help your political allies right? OK, it’s possibly the despicable thing the Bush administration has ever done, and that’s saying something. [...]
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Tags: George Bush, Iraq, John McCain, Maliki
A Radical Suggestion
So the big debate seems to be how quickly Congress needs to act on the financial crisis. Here’s a suggestion as to why Hank Paulson wants Congress to act now, now, now.
He wants to help McCain win the election.
The longer the debate goes, the more of a problem it is for McCain right?
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Tags: Financial Bailouts, Financial Crisis, Hank Paulson, John McCain
Ron Paul Don’t Play That
I saw Ron Paul won’t be endorsing John McCain. I’m surprised the McCain people even bothered to ask.
I mean Ron Paul foreign policy is about as opposite of John McCain’s as possible. More importantly Ron Paul’s whole thing is being an outsider. He’d be irrelevant if he were just another Republican willing to fall [...]
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Tags: John McCain, Ron Paul, Ron Paul Endorsement
-Senator Barbara Boxer on Sarah Palin via MSNBC
Sounds about right.
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Tags: John McCain, Sarah Palin
Experience Cont.
A quick follow up the experience post. Another weird talking point is that Barack Obama doesn’t have executive experience. This falls apart when think about the nature of John McCain’s experience advantage. John McCain has the exact same type of experience as Barack Obama. It’s the extent of that their experience is different the main [...]
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Tags: John McCain, Sarah Palin
Sunday Morning Thoughts
Joe Klein on the Chris Matthews is making a lot of sense on John McCain’s speech.
Main point is that John McCain’s speech was successful in that he really came off as a normal person. Which is something I had been meaning to write. It was the first time in a while that I watched [...]
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Tags: Chris Matthews, Joe Klein, John McCain
About Vice Presidents and Voting
There’s been some really interesting stuff over at The Monkey Cage in the last few days about Sarah Palin and women candidates. Phil Klinkner highlighted polling that showed that more Americans thought Dan Quayle was ready to president then Sarah Palin, which is pretty amusing.
Andrew Gelman had quick post just saying that there’s [...]
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Tags: John McCain, Sarah Palin
Alaskan Slims
Nothing says progress like tokenism …
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Tags: Fake Feminism, John McCain, Sarah Palin
Last night a friend of mine told me go to Daily Kos to check out posts about how Sarah Palin covered up for her daughter’s pregnancy by pretending to be pregnant herself. When I got there all I found was a bunch of scolds telling diarists to shut up with their wacky conspiracy theories. (Certainly [...]
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Tags: John McCain, Sarah Palin
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