McCain Takes A Little Credit For Bailout Passage
(CBS)
(FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ.) – John McCain commended the House of Representatives for passing the bailout legislation today – after they voted it down on Monday – and sought to take some of the credit for its passage during a brief statement after his plane touched down here today.
“I’m glad I suspended my campaign and went back to Washington to bring, and help bring, House Republicans to the table,” McCain said.
“This rescue bill isn’t prefect – it’s an outrage that it’s even necessary. We have to stop the damage to our economy done by corrupt and incompetent practices on Wall Street and in Washington.”
Some conservatives, especially in the House, had decried the amount of government intervention in the marketplace that the bill places in the hands of the Treasury Department. But McCain said the taxpayer protections that had been added improved the bill significantly.
“It’s got to help Main Street, it’s got to help people stay in their jobs,” McCain said at a town hall meeting earlier today in Pueblo, Colorado.
“I am a proud conservative, I am a proud opponent of waste and pork barrel spending, I am proud, but I also have to tell you the government has to step in at this time and save Main Street from the challenges and the disaster that’s looming.”
McCain was supposedly in Washington "Rallying Republican votes" for the "Rescue Plan"??? Clearly he had NO POSITIVE EFFECT. 3/4 of Republicans voted against it after he "rallied the troops" LMFAO
This is another example of McCain FAILING in action while running around presenting a different position every day.
Like a chicken with his head cut off, McCain is no leader. He is just chaos in motion.
Dow is down MASSIVELY. It wiped out almost $2 TRILLION of YOUR INVESTMENTS. Say goodbye to your retirement fund. It''s a good thing McCain did not get his way and put your Social Security in the Stock Market!
McCain lis a LIAR. He LIES and TEKES FALSE CREDIT for something he NEARLY DESTROYED. What a piece of LYING GARBAGE.
Frankly, it is becoming OBVIOUS that McCain spent TOO MANY YEARS as a POW. He''s unstable and angry. He explodes under pressure. He is VERY dangerous for America.
OF COURSE all of those years as a POW left him emotionally damaged. To claim anything else is not to know what we are as humans.
I''m sorry McCain is so damaged from his years as POW. I sure as hell am not so sympathetic as to put McCain''s finger ANYWHERE NEAR THE RED BUTTON.
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I give him alot of credit for the problem we are facing today! John McCain was involved in the Keating 5 scandal and the billions of dollars of the American public''s hard earned savings. Back when he says he found his goal to fight corruption after the Keating 5 scandal, he still did nothing to change the regulation laws forbidding the investment bankers from doing the very same thing. Now he wants credit? You got it pal! This is your fault John McCain and anyone who gives you the honor of their vote, may as well hand you their life savings, 401K, life insurance and any other retirement monies, because you will surely lose it for them anyways!
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by julez474
October 4, 2008 2:27 PM EDT
- McCain should get full responsibility for the mess Wall Street is in as well as Main Street. He has consistently voted for deregulation for both Wall Street and the banking system and repeatedly voted for tax breaks for the top 1-2% wealthiest people. He voted to have jobs shipped over seas and *** education that doesn''t include *** education. Yes, He deserves a lot of credit. However, it''s nothing I want in the next President of the United States. He claims he''s a "maverick" but what few plans he''s released to the media for people to learn about are not helpful to the middle class, in fact his policies still appear to make the world better for only the most wealthy. Having a running mate who speaks "redneck" doesn''t make anyone "down home" to me, either. It just means she is potentially a heart beat away from the President and she is unable to speak proper english, which frankly, I expect My President and Vice President to be able to do, regularly. If anything the two of them are frightening, but their antics are so funny, it makes one forget how important it is that these two really can''t be trusted to run our country.
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