Like I tell folks, spending cuts are wunderbar. Just let us know where the cuts are to be made, so we can judge for ourselves whether we want to pay for it with taxes, or actually cut it. I would start at that five-sided building in northern Virginia myself. Seems to me there's so much low-hanging fruit there, you'd need a thousand 18-wheelers to haul it away.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Magickal chant for McCain to make bad stuff go away: o wha tadun siam (repeat quickly many times)
AdrianBrowne
· 1 year ago
I can't wait until John McCain is standing on the same stage as Barack Obama.
jr
· 1 year ago
millionaire pundits will get a tax cuts so they'll get into full fuzzy math tutor mode to get the mouth-breathers to vote for McCombover
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
McCain can add?
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
The NYT shared this nugget on the ABC Debate fiasco this morning:
While it’s tempting to blame ABC...the news media’s values haven’t really changed...
Of course, a real story would say that the "values" have changed and offer this brief history. As the media market expanded with cable in the late 70s and early 80s ratings for the more powerful older and original broadcast franchises declined and print saw readership losses. Broadcasters started down the path of sensationalizing news and cutting staff while newspapers and magazines began emulating TV to plug audience leaks with emotional 'grabbers'. In the mid 80s and 90s, the Federal regulations governing use of the public airwaves (in place since the 30s and rewritten for TV in the 40s) were eliminated and modified (these changes allowed programs such as Howard Stern and Sally Jesse Raphael to be classified as news and be exempt from the Equal Time Provisions and ultimately midwifing the name-calling format of Rush Limbaugh et al). Also, as the 80s progressed under the Reagan revolution, media corporations took advantage of the new regulatory conditions and expanding marketplace possibilities to expand ownership while minimizing work force cogs and streamlining editorial policy and control in the guise of “product maintenance”. A vast, unruly domestic print and broadcast environment (many privately held) mutated into a mere unregulated, profit-bent handful and this handful proved to be very easy pickings for the fascist velociraptors orbiting the Bush scion. So, while I can understand why a modern media institution like the New York Times would prefer to imagine that “media values haven’t really changed”, history would tend to convince the impartial observer otherwise.
McCain has no idea how to control the deficit. Cutting domestic spending has already caused problems with roads, bridges and levees (remember New Orleans). His financial expert Phil Gramm was involved with the massive S & L collapse. During that 1984 campaign, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) began investigating Gramm's campaign finances. He had paid Jerry Stiles, a Texas builder, $63,000 to complete his waterfront house in rural Maryland. The builder also ran three troubled savings and loans. The cost of the work he did on the house was $117,000. FBI agents who later investigated Stiles on S&L-related charges found this discrepancy suspicious. Gramm was involved with the owners of at least three Texas S&Ls that later failed at a cost to taxpayers estimated at $160 million, and had previously contacted federal regulators on behalf of Stiles and his savings and loan.
Gramm was chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee during the return of a Republican majority in the Senate in 1994. With that majority in place, Gramm, as chairman of the Banking Committee, led passage of the Gramm-Leach Act, making changes in the banking, insurance and securities laws which Congress had kept at bay for sixty years.
McCain where integrity and ethics sit on the sideline.
MikeinSanJo
· 1 year ago
I've got an idea for the religious conservative candidate's economic plan - implement some usury laws like you read about in that stupid book. Ohhhh... what the hell is it called...?
Oh yeah!
THE BIBLE!
I don't think any of them have really ever got past the part on man-sex, though.
mike31c
· 1 year ago
I am sure his plan was as follows --> 1) Lie to the common gop people since they be ignant 2) Go on Faux News and repeat the same lies 3) Convicted drug addicts and viagra users like limpballs will repeat the lies 4) Go back to Faux news and use emphasis on the lies 5) gop lemmings will believe the plan since all the other lemmings are repeating the lies.
This could be his war plan, his education plan, housing plan, economic plan, whatever plan...
lynchie
· 1 year ago
Well McCain has this going for him.
"McCain was at the bottom of his class in flight school. He was shot down over Hanoi in a Navy jet because of his incomparable ineptitude as a pilot. All his class mates thought of him as a screw up. Over Hanoi, when the first rounds were fired at him, he detonated the explosive charge on his ejection seat but forgot to pull the canopy back so he blasted through the plastic canopy. That is why both his arms are deformed. He would like everyone to believe it was because the Vietnamese treated him so poorly."
“David Hackworth, a retired Army colonel with five years’ distinguished service in Vietnam who is a frequent commentator on military affairs on network television, is a longtime critic of McCain. I have read hundreds of letters and e-mails from members of the military and there’s no question that there is a keen divide when it comes to McCain. There are many who challenge his conduct when he was a POW.”
In 1991, explains Hackworth, “I interviewed Col. Bui Tin in Hanoi, who was presented to me as their authority on POW/MIA issues. When I questioned him he said that John McCain was a `special prisoner.’ Tin later told other POWs that McCain never was tortured. So when McCain embraced Tin during the hearings it seemed to some Vietnam vets to confirm the reports they had heard, and it really angered a lot of people. It was no secret that McCain had admitted to giving information to the enemy. In fact, McCain was given the Silver Star for `conspicuous gallantry’ for the time period of 27 Oct. to 8 Dec. 1967 — one day after he was shot down and admits to having given information to the enemy. McCain is a survivor, not a hero, and I don’t think anyone in the history of our nation has been awarded such high military awards for dealing with the enemy.”
Charles Bates, director of Veterans for Government Accountability, a government watchdog group, tells Insight that “during a three-day seminar on the Vietnam War at the Center for Vietnam War Studies at Texas Tech University, I and another POW activist, Joe Jordan, spoke to Bui Tin about McCain’s treatment in Hanoi. Tin said, `No, McCain was never tortured. He was too important. We called him the prince. He received special treatment.’”
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o wha tadun siam (repeat quickly many times)
While it’s tempting to blame ABC...the news media’s values haven’t really changed...
Of course, a real story would say that the "values" have changed and offer this brief history.
As the media market expanded with cable in the late 70s and early 80s ratings for the more powerful older and original broadcast franchises declined and print saw readership losses.
Broadcasters started down the path of sensationalizing news and cutting staff while newspapers and magazines began emulating TV to plug audience leaks with emotional 'grabbers'.
In the mid 80s and 90s, the Federal regulations governing use of the public airwaves (in place since the 30s and rewritten for TV in the 40s) were eliminated and modified (these changes allowed programs such as Howard Stern and Sally Jesse Raphael to be classified as news and be exempt from the Equal Time Provisions and ultimately midwifing the name-calling format of Rush Limbaugh et al).
Also, as the 80s progressed under the Reagan revolution, media corporations took advantage of the new regulatory conditions and expanding marketplace possibilities to expand ownership while minimizing work force cogs and streamlining editorial policy and control in the guise of “product maintenance”.
A vast, unruly domestic print and broadcast environment (many privately held) mutated into a mere unregulated, profit-bent handful and this handful proved to be very easy pickings for the fascist velociraptors orbiting the Bush scion.
So, while I can understand why a modern media institution like the New York Times would prefer to imagine that “media values haven’t really changed”, history would tend to convince the impartial observer otherwise.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/business/medi...
During that 1984 campaign, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) began investigating Gramm's campaign finances. He had paid Jerry Stiles, a Texas builder, $63,000 to complete his waterfront house in rural Maryland. The builder also ran three troubled savings and loans. The cost of the work he did on the house was $117,000. FBI agents who later investigated Stiles on S&L-related charges found this discrepancy suspicious. Gramm was involved with the owners of at least three Texas S&Ls that later failed at a cost to taxpayers estimated at $160 million, and had previously contacted federal regulators on behalf of Stiles and his savings and loan.
http://www.famoustexans.com/philgramm.htm
Don't forget the following from the same article.
Gramm was chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee during the return of a Republican majority in the Senate in 1994. With that majority in place, Gramm, as chairman of the Banking Committee, led passage of the Gramm-Leach Act, making changes in the banking, insurance and securities laws which Congress had kept at bay for sixty years.
McCain where integrity and ethics sit on the sideline.
Oh yeah!
THE BIBLE!
I don't think any of them have really ever got past the part on man-sex, though.
1) Lie to the common gop people since they be ignant
2) Go on Faux News and repeat the same lies
3) Convicted drug addicts and viagra users like limpballs will repeat the lies
4) Go back to Faux news and use emphasis on the lies
5) gop lemmings will believe the plan since all the other lemmings are repeating the lies.
This could be his war plan, his education plan, housing plan, economic plan, whatever plan...
"McCain was at the bottom of his class in flight school. He was shot down over Hanoi in a Navy jet because of his incomparable ineptitude as a pilot. All his class mates thought of him as a screw up. Over Hanoi, when the first rounds were fired at him, he detonated the explosive charge on his ejection seat but forgot to pull the canopy back so he blasted through the plastic canopy. That is why both his arms are deformed. He would like everyone to believe it was because the Vietnamese treated him so poorly."
“David Hackworth, a retired Army colonel with five years’ distinguished service in Vietnam who is a frequent commentator on military affairs on network television, is a longtime critic of McCain. I have read hundreds of letters and e-mails from members of the military and there’s no question that there is a keen divide when it comes to McCain. There are many who challenge his conduct when he was a POW.”
In 1991, explains Hackworth, “I interviewed Col. Bui Tin in Hanoi, who was presented to me as their authority on POW/MIA issues. When I questioned him he said that John McCain was a `special prisoner.’ Tin later told other POWs that McCain never was tortured. So when McCain embraced Tin during the hearings it seemed to some Vietnam vets to confirm the reports they had heard, and it really angered a lot of people. It was no secret that McCain had admitted to giving information to the enemy. In fact, McCain was given the Silver Star for `conspicuous gallantry’ for the time period of 27 Oct. to 8 Dec. 1967 — one day after he was shot down and admits to having given information to the enemy. McCain is a survivor, not a hero, and I don’t think anyone in the history of our nation has been awarded such high military awards for dealing with the enemy.”
Charles Bates, director of Veterans for Government Accountability, a government watchdog group, tells Insight that “during a three-day seminar on the Vietnam War at the Center for Vietnam War Studies at Texas Tech University, I and another POW activist, Joe Jordan, spoke to Bui Tin about McCain’s treatment in Hanoi. Tin said, `No, McCain was never tortured. He was too important. We called him the prince. He received special treatment.’”
McCain the hero?