McCain: Bush right to veto kids health insurance expansion

[Faygo Kid]

Source: CNN

Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, told CNN Wednesday he agrees with President Bush's veto of legislation expanding a children's health insurance program, saying the bill provided a "phony smoke and mirrors way of paying for it.

"Right call by the president," the Republican White House hopeful told CNN's John King. "We've laid a debt on these same children ... that we're saying we're going to give health insurance to. . .

"The American people have rebelled against out-of-control spending. If they can find a legitimate way to pay for it, I would consider it," he said.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/03/mccain.interview/index.html#cnnSTCText

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It IS paid for, you loser, and it's not through "smoke and mirrors." How are kids going to grow up to fight in all the wars you have planned for us if they don't get health care now?

McCain is a loser. He needs to go away, and Jon Stewart ought to keep his fraudulent, sorry, right-wing ass off his too-many appearances on "The Daily Show," too.

[Vincardog]

1. Why is it OK to spend a TRILLION on unjust illegal wars and OCCUPATION but not OK

to fund and spend programs to help people? Oh yeah because helping people does nothing to further enrich the 1/2 of 1% who own the capital and the politicians.

[redqueen]

3. Yup, exactly... not enough profit for their crony buddies.

Shameless... and sickening that repuke voters eat this swill up.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. God will bring lightening strikes on Bush and now McCain!

punishment

[saigon68]

59. They are so Pretty together

[Kikosexy2]

18. Is there anyone...

really listening to Insane McCain anymore???...does he matter at all?...let's move on...he's irrevelant...no credibility...Look Rudy's in drag again...

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[MissB]

27. You already know the $80k figure is wrong.

[Vincardog]

29. Everyone in this country should have HealthCARE. It should have NOTHING to do

with income. By the Ware that 80K thing was withdrawn anyway it is another straw man argument.

[Donnachaidh]

2. McCain's reaching out to that greedy, grasping, whiny BASE of the thugs

Why should anyone else have something I *already* have. Have I said how much I *hate* these people lately?

[Supersedeas]

4. and yet he turns a bling eye to the huge expense of occupying Iraq

[subsuelo]

34. I can't stand when Democrats say "Oh McCain's not that bad"

[kysrsoze]

5. Leave it to that ass-licking sycophant to parrot the words of the most selfish @ss on earth

All guns, no butter. Prick.

[Kool Kitty]

6. Another selfish asshole.

You can rot in hell with your buddy Bush, too. Plenty of money to kill people, not enough to help keep children healthy.

[BootinUp]

7. McCain has turned into a frightful abomination....

[dickbearton]

26. McCain seems to have a rotting of the brain...

I hope this is not an unfortunate result of his war time
captivity; but it could be.

[BootinUp]

28. I don't think that has anything to do with it to be

honest. He is trying to win the nomination of a disgusting political party that admires greed and believes in social darwinism.

[nodehopper]

43. when was he anything but? politically, I mean.

[BootinUp]

47. McCain

has changed quite a bit in the last 6 years imo. Not interested in debating it though.

[Nite Owl]

8. He really thinks that

continuing to side with * will get him points? A thirty percent President still has a following for more of the same?

I hope they all do this, it will so assure a dem win!

[thetaoofterri]

9. What the hell is with these people?

When are these guys going to pull their heads out of their asses! All I can do is shake my head. Nearly every single damn day, I shake my head about something, then sit down and email my congressmen.

[durablend]

12. Never

Don't beat your head against the wall--they're NOT going to wake up. As everyone knows, Republicans are NEVER wrong

[HereSince1628]

14. It's their economic idiotology. do a wiki on neoliberalism...

And before someone craps about it...NEOLIBERALISM IS NOT A POLICY OF THE LEFT. It's the name given to the free-rein economic polices of folks like Thatcher and Reagan.


From wiki...
Policies Advanced by Neoliberalism
The definitive statement of the concrete policies advocated by neoliberalism is often taken to be John Williamson's "Washington Consensus" , a list of policy proposals that appeared to have gained consensus approval among the Washington-based international economic organizations (like the IMF and World Bank). These reforms are described by Dani Rodrik as:

Fiscal rectitude, meaning that governments would cut expenditures and/or raise taxes to maintain a budget surplus

Competitive exchange rates, whereby governments would accept market-determined exchange rates, as opposed to implemented government-fixed exchange rates, as had prevailed under the Bretton Woods System

Free trade, which means the removal of trade barriers, like tariffs, subsidies, and regulatory trade barriers

Privatization, which means the transfer of previously-public-owned enterprises, goods, and services to the private sector.

Undistorted market prices, meaning that governments would refrain from policies that would alter market prices.

Limited intervention, with the exception of intervention designed to promote exports, some kinds of education or infrastructural development

[Middle finga]

11. This guy really creeps me out I can't even stand to watch him

anymore. I bet the CNN interviewer didn't bother to confront him about the money we're waisting on the occupation.

[matt819]

13. We've laid a debt on these children

Excuse me, but somehow I think the 800,000,000,000 dollars spent in Iraq is a debt on our children and our children's children, etc. And for what? If asked, I don't think these kids (certainly not their parents) would have much objection to programs that keep their kids healthy.

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. Why is he still in the race?

Does he think that somehow this will breathe life into the rotting corpse of his campaign?

[Barrett808]

16. Maybe specifically to shill for Bush...

...doubt it will work.

[Jacobin]

17. Yeah. Plus it might put a crimp on WAR spending

YEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[AllyCat]

19. Isn't McCain in like last place on the Repuke candidate list?

He's just awful. I mean, the whole lot of them is awful, but he just takes the cake. Oh wait, I forgot, he already did that with Ole Shrub for his birthday while NOLA drowned.

(Dang, can't link the photo on this 'puter at work. Oh well, maybe someone can do it...you know which one I mean).

[liberal N proud]

20. If bu$h shit in McCain's mouth...

he would proclaim it was a great thing.
His nose is so far up bu$h's ass they should ask him if bu$h has a heart.

[BlueStater]

21. It figures he would chime in

He's little more than that moron's bitch nowadays. Pathetic.

[tabasco]

22. I'm ashamed for my Nation that cretins such as McCain and Bush

occupy high offices. It is an indictment of our society that this came to pass.

[makhno]

23. What a shame

For someone who put his balls on the line for his country, to end his life like that and forever be remembered as a tool, not a hero. A damn shame.

[dickbearton]

30. The way he stands behind the Criminal Bush...

after the way they treated him, he looks like a case of the
Stockholm Syndrome.

[makhno]

36. I just don't understand

Could it be that the man really believes this shit?

I can't fathom why a popular, successful, wealthy US Senator would stoop so low as to proclaim that spending $35B on children's health was somehow detrimental to the country's well-being, when the sum is peanuts compared to whatever pork he'd voted on over the years.

Our times are like a bad acid trip ...

[nickinSTL]

25. the Germans have it right...

there is a really unflattering (for Bush) headline at Der Spiegel online : Bush stoppt Hilfen für arme Kinder - translated, means : Bush stops help for poor children.

http://www.spiegel.de/

Not a headline you'd be likely to see in the US.

[Xipe Totec]

31. That is an excellent argument

for cutting funding for the war in Iraq.

But not for children's health insurance.

[Grandrose]

32. McCain is unhinged!

When and why did he turn into a Bush clone....good grief!:puke:

[Cronus Protagonist]

33. Stockholm syndrome

He's intimately familiar with this kind of thing, you know....

[WCGreen]

35. Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey.... Goodbye...

He can't possibly think that is the right position to take...

[IsItJustMe]

37. All respect is gone out the window for this guy. Bush says bend over and McCain asks how far.

[kurth]

38. Looks like McCain never left Bush's sphincter

[KAZ]

39. Buh-bye John. Let me smash the door into your ass

on the way out. Dick with ears.

[Mojambo]

40. I'd say ouch, but his Presidential ambitions were dead months ago.

I can only hope that the front runners will take a similar position. The Democrats can (and should) turn this into a giant sucking wound for the Republicans in 08.

The Republicans opposing this thing are so incredibly tone deaf to what's going on with middle class America... If people are fully enabled to vote in 08, the GOP might just be obliterated.

[ngant17]

41. If war is "death-care", we've been subsidizing it

from the very beginning of the history of the USA.

There is always money in America for 'death-care', always money for bombings, destruction, massacres, prisons and everything that is ugly and horrible in this world.

Let's evaporate the money for death-care and start subsidizing 'life and health care' for a change.

I think every politician who votes for war should be sprinkled with DU dust every time they vote. And they should be denied any health care for their soon-to-develop terminal cases of cancer until they can start funding for life and health instead of death and destruction. Health care is not just for the rich who can afford it.

[scarface2004]

42. brilliant john! you are such an asshole

how does he keep getting elected..this is ridiculous!!

[Nickster]

44. So what he's really saying is that a vote for him is a vote to continue the Bush Republican ways.

[rodeodance]

45. "We've laid a debt on these same children ." hey-its called the WAR debt!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

46. johnny just lost the mommy vote.

plus many of the daddies, too.

[Lost4words]

48. Inept, his brain is total mush, makes * look intelligent!

go away cage boy!

[lonestarnot]

49. McDrain is this part of your campaign? Heh

LOL :rofl:

[watercolors]

50. Hmmm, does McCain have the same

brain problem Domemici has? He is such a joke! At one time I had a great respect for him, I'm sad to see the man he has become.

[Beetwasher]

51. McCain Is Going Down In A RIOTOUS BLAZE OF IGNOMINY & IDIOCY!!

:rofl:

Wow. It's an amazing thing to watch. Absolutely spectacular.

[Betty]

52. his campaign is already DOA

so why not say any stupid ass thing he feels like? It can't hurt him. If he's so worried about all the debt we're piling on the children, where does the Iraq war fit in? Is he worried about THAT debt?

[saigon68]

60. That's "Righteous Debt" for FREEDOM ON THE MARCH

[Javaman]

53. He continues his man hug love...

the GOP is basically throwing moron* overboard, yet mclame continues is very bizarre senile support.

[coalition_unwilling]

54. McCain: Riding the Titanic all the way to the bottom of the ocean -n/t

[sakabatou]

55. And the cow says...

FUCK YOU.

Goddamn you a fucking lapdog, McCain.

[gasperc]

56. he needed to arrest his rise in the polls

it was starting to threaten his underdog image

very logically stance on McCain's part. If your an idiot.

[simmonsj811]

57. at lease

these kids will be around to pay for it jacka$$

[HuffleClaw]

58. "out-of-control spending" is not something ANY republican should be talking about

unless it is in reference to the occupation of iraq

[xxqqqzme]

61. OK, no more government subsidized

health insurance for mccain & family.

Come on johnny give it up. If it is such a bad idea - then it is a bad dea for everyone.