DISQUS

tlsintx · 9 months ago

McCain is off his nut. still-

vickif · 9 months ago

Sorry to say this but he sounds just like my father did right before he was diagnosed with alzeimers.

GrMtGirl3 · 9 months ago

McCain just enjoys the media lime light . . . what he says and/or believes depends on his mood of the day.

Diogenes · 9 months ago

"I don't know as much about the economy as I should."

That's a direct quote from McCain. Remember in the debates, he siad he would have good advisors - they would help him with the economy and finance. Why on earth is he qualified to make any commentary about financial matters now?

Jeff · 9 months ago

Couldn't ALL the media just ignore these dolts? Please?

Liza · 9 months ago

And our media is said to have a "liberal bias?" Please.

I find it extremely disturbing that John McCain who lost by a landslide is still treated as someone whose opinion needs to be sought on all things anti-Obama. I dont' recall John Kerry getting this much attention after he lost a VERY CLOSE race in 2004. Could someone explain to me why I'm subjected to John McCain and his sore and tacky daughter Meghan McCain's rantings about Obama and they wuz robbed?

And people thought that the press was in the tank for Obama?

katiec · 9 months ago

Mccain, what about the trillions already spent without helping anyone and the costs of the unwarranted war you so strongly support?
Truely think the republicans have lost it. They seem not to be able to
comprehend the crisises they created and our country is facing.
Their party first politics as usual is criminal and unAmerican.
What empty hypocrits.

Phil · 9 months ago

I just call them republicanazis.....they EARNED the title.

cereal · 9 months ago

By now it's clear to anyone with a functioning brain that Republicans are, almost without exception, morons, liars, hypocrites, and above all FAILURES. NObody should be surprised when they continue to spout drivel like "it's Obama's fault we're obstructionist idiots."

What is really depressing is that the professional media either hasn't figured out the very obvious, or they are willingly pretending that these babbling lunatic assholes are serious people with some kind of record of achievement.

Republicans are soulless, amoral asswipes - that's just how they are.

The "media" has a responsibility to call them on their shit, or quit. They, supposedly, have brains and judgment.

I blame them way more.

firstplate · 9 months ago

Why doesn't he just check into a nursing home where he belongs and let Sarah change his diapers

Steve_in_CNJ · 9 months ago

at first i thought you were talking about VItter.

TheOriginalLiz · 9 months ago

McCain doesn't approve of Obama? That's a good thing, right?

Bit NOLA · 9 months ago

Mr. McCain is very familiar with generational theft.
The savings and loan scam was his baby. Now that it's grown and shown the way to bankrupt ALL OF THE BANKS, he wants to control the grand pay-off, I mean bailout.

notoriousq · 9 months ago

The GOP's defination of bipartisanship is for the Democrats to lie down and let the republicans rule.
Yeah isn't that the reason why we're in this mess now/ Why would any self respecting American listen to them?

Jake · 9 months ago

That is not the reason we are in the mess we are in. One reason is too much regulation. Like we need more regulation, by failed regulators like Barney Frank. LOL. Another reason is government forcing banks to give out loans to people who could not afford them in the first place. And of course it's those buyers who are the real idiots for taking the loans, when they knew damn well that they wouldn't be able to afford their new and upcoming mortgage. So in perspective the american idiot screwed it up for the normal american. Why is it always party lines, why can't we all just work together and get this crisis figured out. Why do dems worship americas politicians. Do you not realize that our leaders are the one's who steal from society. Think about it. Most politicians make six figures doing the opposite of what we vote them in to do. I still feel our best bet is to cut income tax for atleast 6 months, or have the politicians receive a pay freeze for atleast 6 months. 6 months with NO government pay check will make them listen. Why is it that we the people are the one's who are always sacrificing. If we have to tighten our belts, then government should do the same. Just get rid of all the wasteful spending like you promised Mr. Obama, and that will take care of most of the spending problems we have encountered. Again $200 million going to ACORN is not stimulus. Wake up and stop drooling over the hollywood president and demand that our politicians stop spending our money the way they want!

Hysan · 9 months ago

I lost track of all the Republican talking points here.

Blaming an incoming president for the bad policies of the last eight years? Brilliant. Blaming homeowners for losing their homes? Compassionate.

You claim you're not speaking within party lines, but we've heard all of this from the GOP. At least be honest.

michaelt · 9 months ago

granpa pissed his pants again, he don't give a damn..........warren zevon.

truebluecoondog · 9 months ago

Why is anyone giving this old man any face time at all? It is not an honor to be 1st runner up when their are only two contestants.

If America wanted McCain's philosophical opinions to become reality, we would have voted for him. Of COURSE he's going to disagree with everything. He's bitter AND he's McSame in a sea of McChange.

JustAnOldLady · 9 months ago

This is the guy (McCain) who was going to pick Phil Gramm for Treasury if he got elected..........you know, the guy (Gramm) who called it a "mental recession" and said the US was "a nation of whiners".........

Goronzola · 9 months ago

McCain would have some credibility if he said something about the Iraq charade which was nothing more than a direct transfer from the treasury to well pugged in GOP business interests like Halliburton.

AdrianBrowne · 9 months ago

McCain's Economy Recovery Plan: Throw gasoline on the fire.

Older_Wiser · 9 months ago

McBust is as intellectually bankrupt as the rest of the Rethug Party who he forgets let Bush 43 take a non-deficit budget and balloon it into an appalling monstrosity of $11 Trillion in debt over the last 8 years.

Are there any brave MSM pundits who will keep reminding people of that? [snark]

cwazycajun · 9 months ago

Looks like someone has not been takeing their metamucile

timncguy · 9 months ago

The damned bill is made up of 1/3 tax cuts. Republicans LIKE tax cuts. Sounds bipartisan to me. Are they just mad because the tax cuts were in the original bill and they couldn't claim credit for getting them added?

The MEDIA is at fault here. I want the media to start asking the repugs to be specific when they claim the bill isn't stimulative or won't create jobs.

How can they claim the provision to make medical records electronic isn't stimulative? It will put IT people to work NOW. It will lower the cost of healthcare over time which will lower the cost of insurance for busineses who offer insurance and for those busineses who may be able to afford it in the future. These lowere costs will allow business to retain and hire employees.

The same can be said for weatherizing homes. Puts laid off construction workerrs back to work NOW. Then when the weatherizing is done and construction work starts to increase those workers can go back to the construction industry.

I fail to understand the repugs call for more business tax cuts. Yes, it would lower their cost of doing business. But, if they have no customers anyway becuase of lowered spending demand, why would they need to hire any new workers?

Apphouse50 · 9 months ago

Ah, Marginal John. What a guy. His own party thinks he's icky and a loser. He's lost any points he might have had left (if any) with the Dems for being mavericky. He tried grandstanding some amendment into the Stim and scored a big flat zero, and now he can't STFU.

He oughta be at a dog track but insists on shooting his mouth off. Let him run. It's fun watching this old fraud make an ass of himself.

sparrow · 9 months ago

McCain's comments are completely worthless except as a reminder of how completely fucked the country would have been had he been elected with Palin as his back up.

katiec · 9 months ago

The media will continue to glorify Mccain, Limbaugh, Rove and other misfits as the majority of them support the far right.
CNN. as they claim fairness and integrity is one of the worse. At least Fox makes no bones about where they stand but CNN tries to dupe the viewers. Never watch them except for Jack Cafferty.

ProgressiveTroll · 9 months ago

I thank the gods every morning that McStain is not our "president", it would have been the end of our country. What really bothers me is how many people actually voted for that idiot. Millions of people walking among us that don't have a clue. That's scary.

Rob Mule · 9 months ago

Sermons about theft from a guy who has more homes than fingers is a curious thing.
I wonder if crazy Johnny agrees with Miss Lindsey that America's banks should be taken all the way to nationalization???

Demsdebreaks · 9 months ago

So, the two TRILLION dollars + in tax cuts that McCain and the Republicans backed under Bush that (thank God) did not pass were, what? Generational credit?

I am so SICK of FAKE outrage.

The Republicans are on the wrong horse. They are working AGAINST our country, not for it, and every suggestion they make that gets shot down is "tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts." WAKE UP. Your tax cuts didn't work for the last 8 years. They aren't going to work now. Get onboard, or get out of the way.

dave · 9 months ago

Anyone who thinks stimulus money to states and districts is a horrible mistake is free not to take it.

So, John McCain should flatly reject any cash headed for Arizona.

J.P. · 9 months ago

Apparently the only way to have bipartisanship is to become a Republican - at least according to the Republicans.

AdmNaismith · 9 months ago

For 8 years Reps spent like drunken sailers, telling us that Saint Ronnie said that deficits don't matter. For that we have worldwide economic meltdown and an even worse mess than usual in the Middle East.
NOW, they all get the collective vapors if the President so much as wants to buy gum out of petty cash- and all the media just lets Reps talk without so much as a 'but what about...?'.
Last week, John Stewart asked John Sununu that if deficit spending is so bad, why did we keep spending so much money in Iraq without complaint or restraint?
Sununu steamrolled right past the question, of course, but we deserve to know (and John Stewart is my hero).

lost_nacf_gop · 9 months ago

Actually, "Operation Generational Theft" was the second choice for the War's nickname, after one of the inner circle geniuses pointed out the acronym for "Operation Iraqi Liberation" was O - I - L.

Houndentenor · 9 months ago

So after running up an 11 trillion dollar deficit, the GOP has finally decided the deficit spending is bad? Too bad they didn't clue into this when they had control of spending. What a bunch of hypocrites. When Dems were complaining about the deficit they told us that deficits didn't matter.

But what's really funny about the stimulus is that they were far worse about not giving people time to read the bill when they passed the Patriot Act and the prescription drug benefit. They really don't have any room to criticize the Democrats on procedural matters. They made the rules and now that they don't have the ball they are crybabies.

Jane · 9 months ago

Didn't Alzheimer's John learn from the election that nobody is interested in what he has to say?

aquarius2 · 9 months ago

Bottom line, Obama won and Congress won enough to finally be a majority. Notice to Republicans YOU LOST get over it.

Angry · 9 months ago

Ron Brownstein twice called out McCain and the other 35 Rs who voted for DeMint's amendment yesterday on "This Week" and asked why that wasn't generational theft. He also mentioned the tax breaks for the rich and the cost of the Iraq War during the last 8 years and why weren't the Rs concerned about debt when they were doing those things. It was a thing of beauty.

No one should pay any attention to those 36 unpatriotic Americans.

rexkc · 9 months ago

Like David Letterman, I think someone has put something in McCain's Metamucil.

larz69 · 9 months ago

Dumber than picking Palin as a running mate. Which one of his advisors told him looking like a "sore loser with no alternatives" was the route to go here?

Steeltown · 9 months ago

If my money is going to be dispersed I'd rather it be on public works than tax cuts that are more advantageous to the wealthy and big business. Republican lawmakers are trying to cover their own asses. They are just posturing for the next set of elections. They figure if they can block anything from happening and the situation worsens then they will be re-elected by default. It's tax cuts or nothing from their point of view. At this point I feel like they have made their stance and are unwilling to concede anything or to even look at the other side's opinions as ideas that might work.

Treat 'em like mushrooms.

Hysan · 9 months ago

"Generational theft" is a term coined by Michelle Malkin.

Yes, that Michelle Malkin. The far right-wing pundit.

It's funny how no one (in the GOP or Democratic party) was all that concerned about future generations when it came to the war deficit. But that was going to "make us safe."

Because shoring up the infrastructure and making certain our bridges don't collapse, that _doesn't_ make us safe, clearly.

I love how President Obama is the "Hollywood" president...yes, he's popular. And? Is that the best argument anyone can come up with? Find a new argument or just accept that you don't like him and the majority of the country does...and get over it. If you disagree with his policies, fine.

But this is an actual crisis. Not a made up one cynically using the dead of 9/11 to push through an agenda. People are losing their jobs and their homes and something needs to be done. If it fails, we'll try something else. That's the difference between Obama and W. Rather than "staying the course" right off a cliff, President Obama will admit he's made a mistake and try something new.

MNUSA · 9 months ago

Perhaps that's why they're so eager to get rid of the estate tax. So they can't be accused of generational theft.

Phil · 9 months ago

McCain lost it when he used the pit bit*h palin as his running mate.....in typical fashion, these republicanazi seem to think that TAX CUTS (a' la reganistic mentality) will help those WHO DON'T MAKE ENOUGH TO TAX!!! It seems to me that they want the money where THEY can keep their beady little eyes on it; you know, the old "MINE, MINE, MINE" that the greedy still yell ----I have NO respect for this party of hate; they remind me of nothing less than the Nazis of the Old Germany (hence, the name republicanazi), and to tell the truth, they and their lemming flying monkey supporters either have to HELP the US get back on track, or find a place where Fascist dictates would go over well......who knows, they might even invite back the American Hitler bush to lead them!

jeannettelj · 9 months ago

THEY ARE RIGHT. WHY DO THEY THINK THAT WE CARE WHAT JOHN MCCAIN THINKS? IF HE HAD WON THE ELECTION NOTHING WOULD BE HAPPENING AND THE COUNTRY WOULD BE IN WORST CONDITION THAT IT IS. AT LEAST OBAMA IS TRYING TO TURN THE ECONOMY AROUND. IF THE REPUBLICANS DON'T LIKE THE STIMULUS PACKAGE THEY SHOULD REFUSE ANY MONIES OFFERED TO THEIR STATES. MY GUESS IS THAT THEY WILL BE THE FIRST ONES OUT THERE WITH THEIR HANDS OUT.

monitor · 9 months ago

jeannettelj

Hit your caps lock key, please.

sitemonitor

woodroad34 · 9 months ago

Oh, puhleeze! This from a "man" who said he doesn't know anything about finance, yet is still willing to fight in a muddled war for generations is talkin about generational theft? Time to take the meds and head back to the home, grampa!

Ruthless Gravity · 9 months ago

He's worried about a primary challenge from the right.

MNUSA · 9 months ago

Cranky and smug.

mari12 · 9 months ago

John McCain is just mad that he didnt win the election. He is just saying bad things about Obama because someone is actually trying to change this economy. He wishes he was in Obamas spot right now. So he cant bear to stand one moment with out saying something bad about him.

OneManCommotion · 9 months ago

Where were these people while this country was spending the $ 5 TRILLION in the past 8 years? And as for McCain and his "generational theft", this man helped millions of people lose their life savings during the S & L scandal. I call it "financial cannibalism".

McCain the Cannibal.