Blunt: McCain ‘Would Be’ A Third Bush Term On Economy, ‘And I Think That’s A Good Thing’
Blunt: McCain ‘Would Be’ A Third Bush Term On Economy, ‘And I Think That’s A Good Thing’
On CNN’s Late Edition today, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) claimed that the argument that John McCain would, in effect, be a third Bush term “isn’t going to stick”:
BLITZER: [Obama] says he welcomes a debate with John McCain on the issue of the economy, taxes, spending policy because John McCain would simply be more George W. Bush. … Does John McCain want to continue what Obama called the failed policies of the Bush administration?
ROMNEY: Well I think you’re going to hear that time and again, Wolf, throughout the campaign season. And I just don’t think it’s going to stick.
But earlier on the same program, a leading McCain surrogate — Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) — conceded that McCain is indeed promising a third Bush term on the economy:
BLITZER: So it would be in effect a third Bush term when it came to pro-growth tax policies?
BLUNT: It would be. I think it would be. And I think that’s a good thing.
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Romney may not have gotten the memo, but it’s nice to see Blunt conceding the point. McCain is promising more of Bush’s economic agenda — unaffordable massive tax cuts for the rich that offer no help for the average family.
The McCain economic agenda includes: $1.7 trillion tax cut for corporations, $300 billion a year in tax cuts that aren’t paid for, and a plan that delivers 58 percent of the benefits to the top 1 percent of taxpayers and only 9 percent to the bottom 80 percent.
All this coming from a man who once said he “cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us.”
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Last Sunday, South Carolina Senator and John McCain water carrier Lindsey Graham issued a challenge. Claiming on CNN that McCain “is his own guy,” Graham then threw down the gauntlet, “Good luck making him George Bush.”
For details on why a John McCain victory in November means a third term for George W. Bush, see:
May 11th, 2008 at 1:38 pm“Lindsey Graham’s John McCain Challenge.”
yeah, TP had that too
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/04/graham-good-luck/
May 11th, 2008 at 1:39 pmBlunt: McCain ‘Would Be’ A Third Bush Term On Economy, ‘And I Think That’s A Good Thing’»
Blunt thinks recession is a good thing?
Well, then. I think Blunt is dumber than a sock full of rocks.
May 11th, 2008 at 1:49 pmZed Lefflin Says:
I do not know
Should have stopped there…..
May 11th, 2008 at 1:55 pmStill waiting for TP to post an analysis of how much McCain’s proposed cut in the estate tax would benefit his own children.
Why not attack the high-grade hypocrisy? The Sugar Momma Express should explain itself.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:03 pmbarfly Says: Your comment is awaiting moderation.
Why? How about an explanation, TP?
May 11th, 2008 at 2:04 pmDid Zed have a point to make, or was he just “stimming”?
Anyway, the key thing that Republicans want to get across to the American electorate is this: if you’re talking about “pro-growth” policies, then McSame represents a third Bush term. If, on the other hand, you’re talking about the disastrous consequences of Bush’s “pro-growth” policies, then McSame will be competely different.
Economists can’t explain it. It’s just “magic”.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:06 pmIn case my above point wasn’t clear, here it is in a nutshell:
if it sounds good, then McSame will deliver it.
If it sounds bad, then McSame is against it.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:09 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
Economists can’t explain it. It’s just “magic”.
Maybe they get distracted by the sparkles from the “magic”.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:12 pm“Ohhhh, something shiny….”
if it sounds good, then McSame will deliver it.
If it sounds bad, then McSame is against it.
Typical “wide-stance” republican: he’ll straddle any issue, no matter how it plays out.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:12 pm…a plan that delivers 58 percent of the benefits to the top 1 percent of taxpayers and only 9 percent to the bottom 80 percent.
And leaves nothing to those in the middle.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:13 pmMcCain is a total disaster as the Republican candidate: every day or so, he manages to accidentally blurt out the truth; other days he tells lies than he can’t remember saying two days later. The Republicans will have to replace him at their August Convention, because he is much too senile…
May 11th, 2008 at 2:14 pm[Tap,tap…]
Hello? McCain’s estate tax reduction will save his $100 million dollar heirs more in taxes than the entire amount of most typical inheritances subject to the Estate Tax.
Why isn’t this front and center, TP?
May 11th, 2008 at 2:19 pmYes, but look at the fools who make up the electorate of this country. These are the ones who have consistently bought in to the superior moral values of the Republican party (you know - Craig, Vitter, McCain’s wife dumping, Abramoff and the entire rouges gallery.) These are the same fools who voted for Reagan’s trickle down economics and voted against their own financial interests while the money has gravitated to the richest one per cent of the nation. These are the red state fools who voted for Republicans to get rid of abortion and for abstinence education while receiving the blessings of higher unwed pregnancy rates, higher divorce rates, higher domestic violence rates and greater poverty than blue states.
The Republican elites and their corporate allies have never been disappointed by the rank and file Republican who will eagerly slit his/her own throat. Yes, this country is doomed because of the growth of a subhuman and intellectually inferior breed of people - Republicans.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:19 pmAnd we’re Hamas, says McCain.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:21 pmlol, here’s the promo for my local Kroger grocery store weekly circular:
Kroger helps you get more for your money with FREE GROCERIES!
And they are offering discounts on Gift Cards if you use your Economic Stimulus money on…
FOOD.
That’s the Bush/McCain economic policy.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:26 pmBut I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle class Americans who most need tax relief.
So McCain no longer has a good conscience.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:28 pm“Hot stuff” Mitt Romney was passed over (mistakenly) for a schizophrenic.
HA! HA!
May 11th, 2008 at 2:29 pmThis would make the Keating incident look honest if this all plays out as he’s explaining it to us in this weeks version of his economic policies. He may not know much, but hey, he’s got Greenspan’s book.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:34 pmFor those who want to pay $7.00 a gallon for gas, have a stagnant stock market, inflation in double digits, etc. McLame is your man.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:39 pmJMOHR Says:The Republican elites and their corporate allies have never been disappointed by the rank and file Republican who will eagerly slit his/her own throat. Yes, this country is doomed because of the growth of a subhuman and intellectually inferior breed of people - Republicans.
Sadly, So true…..But, The ones that I am most concerned about are the Libertarians. They have all of the low-life ideals of the Republicans…Guns, God, Anti-Feminist, Anti-Gay, Pro-Oil, Anti-Environmentalist, and Pro-Corporate, while simultaneously saying they are antiwar, anti-police state, and anti-big government. They are not your teeth-missing-thick-as- a-brick redneck. They could actually brainwash the public easier than a Fundamentalist can. The mind and human species cannot hold two contradictory ideals/thoughts in their head at the same time. Insanity always ensues.
May 11th, 2008 at 3:15 pmI have many Republican friends and only a handful of them have been caught cruising for gay sex in airport restrooms and just a few of these same “conservatives” have used their church offering money to buy meth to snort off of gay hookers’ dicks. These, my friends, are those who need a “third Bush term.”
May 11th, 2008 at 3:22 pmBrain From Planet Arous,
You’re talking about Conservative Libertarians — an oxymoron if I ever heard one.
Many liberals I know are Libertarians.
May 11th, 2008 at 3:22 pmZooey Says:
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Many liberals I know are Libertarians.
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Does that mean we didn’t inherit all of those idiot “free-staters”
May 11th, 2008 at 3:27 pmJMOHR, I don’t know why Obama didn’t diffuse his “turn to religion” comments by pointing out that the GOP uses the religious beliefs of their voting base to trick them into voting against their own economic interests. Many arguments could be made into pointing out that the Republicans are the ELITISTS who mock the beliefs of their base while pandering to them to win votes.
May 11th, 2008 at 3:29 pmdbadass Says:
Does that mean we didn’t inherit all of those idiot “free-staters”
May 11th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
No they’re just Republicans who want to smoke pot and hire hookers.
May 11th, 2008 at 3:37 pmand weasel out of taxes.
May 11th, 2008 at 3:37 pmEspecially that. :D
May 11th, 2008 at 3:42 pmJMOHR Says:
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Yes, but look at the fools who make up the electorate of this country. These are the ones who have consistently bought in to the superior moral values of the Republican party (you know - Craig, Vitter, McCain’s wife dumping, Abramoff and the entire rouges gallery.) These are the same fools who voted for Reagan’s trickle down economics and voted against their own financial interests while the money has gravitated to the richest one per cent of the nation. These are the red state fools who voted for Republicans to get rid of abortion and for abstinence education while receiving the blessings of higher unwed pregnancy rates, higher divorce rates, higher domestic violence rates and greater poverty than blue states.
The Republican elites and their corporate allies have never been disappointed by the rank and file Republican who will eagerly slit his/her own throat. Yes, this country is doomed because of the growth of a subhuman and intellectually inferior breed of people - Republicans.
I’m pissed that I can’t click on the “Recommend” link for 1000 times in support of your comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 11th, 2008 at 4:05 pmI find it odd that Romney has all of a sudden come back on the scene.
I still think the Republicans aren’t going to run McCain. I believe that they will choose Romney/Huckabee at their convention in September. They will say McCain is too sick. Then Romney will start out all fresh and the Democrats will have to play catch up in the last two months. That’s why I think that Obama and the Democrats should be running ads against the Republican party and their failed policies. If they do that and the Republicans pull a switch, the Democrats will be ahead of the game.
May 11th, 2008 at 4:21 pmRepuglycans aren’t the brightest bulbs in the garden.
With a 71% disapproval rating, one would think the advice given to the candidate in the chymp’s party would be to run like hell from the previous administration’s everything.
You can’t cure stupid, Roy.
May 11th, 2008 at 4:43 pmBilbo, that’s an interesting scenario, but McIIIrd has the delegates, and unless they are all in on it as well, it ain’t gonna happen.
May 11th, 2008 at 4:45 pmNow a Manchurian Candidate scenario wherein McIIIrd gets ’sick’ and can’t go is perhaps viable…
I think he has, I think mr. blunt has . . been smoking to many blunts.
May 11th, 2008 at 4:47 pmPLEASE: Encourage the repubs to tie Bush like a millstone permanently affixed to McCain’s neck. There are still enough of the 28% who will proclamin McCain=BushIII from the housetops to do this.
May 11th, 2008 at 5:12 pmBilbo,
All I know is, the GOP has deep, deep regret for nominating McCain. The good news is, the democrats probably won’t have to deal with Romney unless the GOP can overturn McCain’s delegates and nominate him at their prostitution convention.
Romney will run in 2012, I’m sure, but a President Obama will be working so hard to turn this country around, it will diminish the chances of the GOP sex idol.
May 11th, 2008 at 5:37 pmPerhaps Blunt figures he could use a tax cut on his Senate salary, maybe even expecting, hypothetically, a President McCain to double his salary. He’s a pauper with two residences to operate and not “independently wealthy.” Remember that?
May 11th, 2008 at 5:42 pmAnd who do you think Obama’s flat tax will help? Here’s a hint: Not the average household.
May 11th, 2008 at 7:27 pm“Obama’s flat tax”?
When did Obama propose a “flat tax”?
May 11th, 2008 at 7:43 pmMette Says:
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What a flamer.
May 11th, 2008 at 8:01 pmMette is apparently a total dipshit.
May 11th, 2008 at 8:10 pmMette:
May 11th, 2008 at 8:58 pmI think you may have misdialed VA Voter
Well, of course that’s a good thing. If you’re of the Herbert Hoover school of economics. Everyone loses except the very few ultra-rich! Which gains everything! And then they pay the politician whore their ‘commission’ in the form of an under the table cash payment to a Cayman account and everyone’s happy. Right? Yeah, sure, I love $4.00 a gallon gas which is only going to go higher under McPayme.
May 11th, 2008 at 9:30 pm…Oh yeah! It would be a great thing for the economy to have a third ‘Bush like term’… oil prices skyrocketing, RECESSION and everybody around the globe hating the USA. How great you can be????? …Oh I’m soory, I thought he was talking from a Bin Laden point of view!
May 11th, 2008 at 10:27 pmZooey Says:
Brain From Planet Arous,
You’re talking about Conservative Libertarians — an oxymoron if I ever heard one.
Many liberals I know are Libertarians.
I think “Liberal” Libertarians are Left-Leaning Libertarians. They smoke reefer, possess firearms, support gay rights, think global warming is real, and vote for Ron Paul.
Personally, I take the most logical and humane Points of View of any political system and incorporate them.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:38 pmObama’s flat tax? Like Clinton’s flat earth?
May 11th, 2008 at 11:37 pmJMOHR
May 12th, 2008 at 1:52 amI hope you don’t mind but I copied your post because it was great. I’d like to use it if it’s ok with you and give you credit. I think a lot more people need to see it. It just struck me as right.
Thanks in advance.
JPT
To save this beast from taking over, please support either Clitnon or Obama.
Loby them on http://www.lobbydelegates.com
May 12th, 2008 at 2:09 amI can see how people think flat tax is so wonderful, but what they also fail to notice is how capital interest, gains, and dividends are exempt from taxation on unearned income. That’s a huge relief for the wealthy.
May 12th, 2008 at 2:39 amAnd implicit in this entire piece…Clinton’s political obituary. I support the woman if only because she’s a g*d damned fighter to the last. She keeps winning primaries and this despite near TOTAL negative press coverage.
May 12th, 2008 at 6:22 amLooks like under the Republicans, Ayn Rand’s Wet Dream has come true.
May 12th, 2008 at 6:23 amPoor “Mittens” is so out of touch with America and what is going on due to the lack of action by Dubya and his administration. He does not feel the pinch like the average middle and working class guy, he does not have to woory about anything so of course a third SHRUB term would benefit him and his cronies.As long a he keeps this up Johnny old man Mcwars will not have a chance com November, keep up the good work “Mittens”.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:42 amOhh! Wait! The “have-mores” now have WAY MUCH MORE! As they get richer the dollar sinks. To have more is never enough. Someone could wind up with all these worthless printed paper bills. Build a Bonfire or use them as paper towel …or even as toilet paper! Multi-purpose worthless dollars! Blood-Money! War-Criminal currency!
May 12th, 2008 at 2:54 pmOn the street the “have-mores” are the PIMPS.
May 12th, 2008 at 4:47 pm