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Just imagine: What if McCain Had Won the Election and Obama had Shafted him During the Stimulus Debate?
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...The media elites would be calling him an obstructionist, a sore loser, a man and party with no new ideas and someone who will not listen to the will of the people after they had spoken on Nov. 4th.
Instead CBS framed their story like this: "Change? McCain Says Dems Are Just Like GOP":
Schieffer began his interview with a question likely on many people's minds, asking the Arizona senator how he has gotten right back to work after a devastating presidential election loss."I think the best cure for defeat, as hard as it may be, is to get back in the arena," McCain said. "I love what we do in the Senate. I'm honored to serve. I am honored to represent the people of Arizona and have some voice in major crises we face both at home and abroad. So best cure, I am happy to be back and I am happy to be back on this program."
Um, are McCain's feelings after losing an election the big question on people's minds in the nation? I think the stimulus package is the focus of the country right now, don't you? The fact that McCain was almost holding his breath until he turned blue Friday night and has led a campaign against Obama's stimulus plan all week might be more interesting to the people. Schieffer could have asked something like, "As I'm sure you know you lost the election. Senator McCain, you look like you're acting almost childish in your opposition. Don't you think it hurts your Mavericky reputation to carry on like you have? And what does it say about the Republican party as well?"
Instead, he tries to reason with McCain, when that's not the political strategy the GOP is taking. McCain, like most of the Republican Party, is being led by Rush Limbaugh now. So sad indeed.
To see video of John McCain on Face the Nation being against the stimulus plan on Sunday, click here.
And as Daivd Neiwert writes:
But McCain also makes it clear he thinks that Democrats have to completely bend over -- or, as Rush would put it, "grab the ankles" -- to make bipartisanship work. On Planet GOP -- where the rampant fear in fact is what will happen to them if Obama succeeds -- the failure of bipartisanship has nothing, no nothing, to do with Republican ideological rigidity. It's all the Dems' fault...read on:
(John Amato is the founder of CrooksandLiars.com)
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Great post! And so true.
McCain picked Palin; why should any listen to his policy.
exactly! zero cred!
McCain objected to the stimulus plan due to his convictions, not because of his feelings. And, yes, I would presume that Obama would also stick to his convictions had he not won.
Expecting people to set aside major convictions just doesn't make sense to me.
Then you haven't been paying attention this pre- & post-election season.
the article is speaking more to the double standard
John McCain is "proud to represent the people of Arizona". Are you kidding me? When has he represented us? Certainly not during this financial mess that he helped to create! McCain is an opportunist, a politician through and through. I think he fancies himself as a statesman but he is far from that!
The GOP are very good at obstructionism. Very good at painting horrible cold war pictures of Socialism and communism.
They are not very good at governance. The last three Republican Presidencies have brought us financial hardships.
Didn't McCain go on record as saying he doesn't know anything about economics? Wasn't that his excuse for being one of the "Keating 5"? Didn't he revere Phill Gramm as a financial genius and promise to make him his Secretary of the Treasury if he won? Isn't Gramm the one who sneaked the amendment through Congress that legalized CDSs and helped preciptate the economic meltdown? When he complains that the stimulus bill will saddle "our children and our children's children with debt' doesn't he realize that Bush/Cheney's war machine has already done that?
Isn't McCain essentially a financial idiot?
You're assuming there would be a stimulus package, or a debate, if McC had won. We'd be too busy prosecuting our new war in Iran to pay much attention to the tax cut solution.
I think McCain is just the closest thing to a "leader" they can muster right now on the R side, because 46% of America just voted for him.
Sad, he went from Maverick to party toady in about 5 months.
It doesn't matter whether the Dems win or lose. They're always shafted by the GOP. And the media enables them. So much for the myth of the liberal media. They've been conservative, GOP supporters since the Rs have bought up all of the media.
The media just loves a good b1tch fight.
John McWayne would have Joe the Genius explain his maveriky stimuli plan.
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