Graham: McCain’s Policies Would ‘Absolutely’ Be An ‘Extension’ And ‘Enhancement’ Of Bush’s
Graham: McCain’s Policies Would ‘Absolutely’ Be An ‘Extension’ And ‘Enhancement’ Of Bush’s
In a widely-ridiculed speech last Tuesday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) noted that “you will hear from my opponent’s campaign in every speech, every interview, every press release that I’m running for President Bush’s third term. You will hear every policy of the President described as the Bush-McCain policy.” He added that he believes those comparisons are “false.”
But it seems that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), McCain’s chief surrogate and attack dog, disagrees. Today on ABC’s This Week, Graham stated unequivocally that McCain’s tax and health care policies were not only an extension of Bush’s polices but also an “enhancement”:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me bring Senator Graham back in on this because you brought up two. You said the tax policy and the health care policy were essentially, Senator Graham, John McCain is calling for an extension or maybe enhancement of the Bush policies.
GRAHAM: Yeah, absolutely.
Watch it:
McCain’s speech last week represented a feeble attempt to distance himself from Bush, something his top surrogate acknowledges is futile. Strangely enough, McCain economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin said recently that Obama’s economic polices, not McCain’s, would represent a third Bush term (a claim ultra-conservative Robert Novak even found absurd).
But the simple fact is that Graham is right. McCain is proposing massive tax cuts that primarily benefit higher-income households, ignore other priorities and drive up the national debt by trillions. And McCain’s health care policy would raise costs and abandon the uninsured. That sure sounds like an “extension” and “enhancement” of Bush’s policies.
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WHAT?!? I thought we were being told that Obama represents a third Bush term? Now it’s McCain again?
Oh, Lord, I wish these wingnuts would get their talking points straight.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:13 pmLindsey likes the “enhancement”, he’s just in denial.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:15 pmGod, Douglas Holtz-Eakin must drink like a Russian.
How else to explain his positive attitude, after getting slapped around by his own boss’ inept blathering on a near-daily basis? I must say, he hides it well.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:15 pmralph,
obviously you have not mastered the art of doublespeak.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:15 pmIt looked like a not so subtle poke to me, enhancement and extension in the same question… Graham stepped right into it.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:17 pmThe only “enhancement” we will see with John McCain is that the debt will double. There won’t be one major country we won’t owe money too.
Senator Lindsey Graham most not have received the current memo about Obama, Ralph..
June 8th, 2008 at 12:18 pmi was listening to this… it almost sounded as if george tried to save lindsey from himself… maybe…
June 8th, 2008 at 12:23 pmHoltz-Eakin’s McCain’s Baghdad Bob, unable to keep up with political circumstance, and just spouting stuff he knows isn’t accurate; a political paddle-ball, bouncing on an old, worn-out line that’s lost all it’s reactive energy.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:25 pmjohn mcsame, he’s a floor wax and a desert topping!
June 8th, 2008 at 12:26 pmTalk about the Lunatic Fringe…how does this group keep from being institutionalized?
June 8th, 2008 at 12:29 pmThey are already in their own little institution.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:30 pmNice visual framing, TP. It reminds readers of the horrible green-room speech.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:32 pmmcCain despises bush.
And yet he wants the womens’ vote. [snerk!]
June 8th, 2008 at 12:34 pmMcCain’s Policies Would ‘Absolutely’ Be An ‘Extension’ And ‘Enhancement’ Of Bush’s
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June 8th, 2008 at 12:34 pmGraham: McCain’s Policies Would ‘Absolutely’ Be An ‘Extension’ And ‘Enhancement’ Of Bush’s
Leave it to the 4th choice out of a group that comprised the worst gaggle of GOP presidential hopefuls in history to extend the worst presidency in US history ……..
June 8th, 2008 at 12:44 pmThanks Lindseed. We need all the help we can get. And your painting of McIIIrd as the next BushitCo is right there.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:48 pmYou da man, or whatever the heck you actually are. I keep expecting someone to peel off your skin and show the reptilian underskin you conceal so well.
A guy like lindsey really commands a lot of respect, really seems like an authority on issues like tax policy and health care. Seems like a used car dealer to me. No insult to car dealers intended.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:49 pmThe only ‘heroic’ thing about McIIIrd would be his BBQ sandwich.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:50 pmTom, quit pissing on your knee. It’s unseemly.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:51 pmSeriously.
Even if you have no self-respect, your mom will get mad when she does your laundry and she’ll take away your computer. You won’t be able to visit us anymore.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:53 pmThompney Says:
barfly is a nerd. barfly is a nerd. nerdar sounding off like never before.
I’ve been exposed, in all my nefarious broken-eye-glassed nerdishness!
Oh, the shame, like a cheese-grater to my very soul!
Oy.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:56 pmShe does your laundry. I’d say that’s quite a lot. You should be more appreciative.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:57 pmThe ladies, formerly on clinton’s side, will have no problem flocking to vote for the Romney on the ticket.
They can all perch on his runway sized shoulders.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:58 pmElderly Senator McSenile is actually running for Cheney’s third term, not Bush’s third term.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:58 pmImportant point. Thanks for the correction.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:59 pmThe ladies, formerly on clinton’s side, will have no problem flocking to vote for the Romney on the ticket.
Because nothing says “babe-magnet” like being polygamy-lovin’ Mormon…
June 8th, 2008 at 12:59 pmIs the new GOP strategy to keep, continually, saying the most asinine thing possible in the hope of the Dems underestimating them? Perhaps the ones who know they won’t survive, like McCain an Ghraham apparently, will “take one for the team” so the next generation of slime can keep a low profile till America’s ADD kicks in and people forget how badly the GOP has failed us?
June 8th, 2008 at 1:02 pmGood Morning poster’s, good comment’s and funnie’s…Lindsey’s a moon faceed dumbass and remind’s me a lot of the other dumbass De-lay…..Wonder if they are related…
What, just one ant on our picnic.? Some one pass the egg salad please…Blessings
June 8th, 2008 at 1:03 pmWhat would a Sunday outing be without a little formic acid, eh?
June 8th, 2008 at 1:06 pm“He is a successful businessman with a single family.”
It’s just a very large family. Who used to be polygamists.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:08 pmI think that no matter how badly the country is damaged there are some who still love Bush, but just wished he were more competent. They can’t wait to hand the problems they created off to someone else, so they can get back to complaining, instead of defending – a position they were never really comfortable with, since it meant defending the government’s policies, and acts – and a position completely at odds with their ideology.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:09 pmRomney doesn’t practice polygamy, nerd. He is a successful businessman with a single family.
But he’s from a family of polygamists, silly. Has he ever repudiated his family’s origins?
June 8th, 2008 at 1:11 pmHey thom P,
If having a single family is so important to you, Obama has only one, and how many has Johnny Boy had?
OHHH, Riight, more than that. There, answered that one for you.
You must be so proud of his dumping his first wife, who stood by him during his Hanoi Hilton Holiday, then dumped her like a used condom when she had an accident. Guess he was just holding up theose republic party family values.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:13 pmIf a democrat voter had his mom do his laundry (I must ask, since you fling that stupidity on republican commenters a lot), would you disown that commenter? Of course not.
A democratic voter wouldn’t be sponging off his mom. False analogy.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:13 pmI didn’t “disown” you.
I simply suggested that you consider your mom’s feelings if you’re going to keep urinating on yourself, as RUC suggested. In other words, I was being considerate. I don’t want to see your computer privileges taken away. I find you very amusing, and a solid representative of the level of intellect driving the right these days.
If I were going to “disown” you, your previous comments would have been enough to justify it.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:14 pmHey upside, he was effing around on his first wife for quite a while before he met his cashcowcu*ttrollop.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:15 pmRomney…Isn’t he the guy that spent 5 million of his own money and still didn’t get his campaign off the ground?….Heard some where he has 5 son’s, none of which serve in the war he support’s..Is that the same guy.?..LOL.Think so..Blessings
June 8th, 2008 at 1:16 pmI think a large percentage of Bush lovers (not to be confused with the very small demographic of Bush-users) identify with George because he is bumbling, undereducated, goofy, and just plain ol’ stupid. The ones who can drink a twelve pack and say to themselves, “Hey, look at that guy! Why, even I could be president!”
June 8th, 2008 at 1:16 pmThompney, I guess you are in favor of 28 year-old grandmothers.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:16 pmIf Romknee is so damn popular, how’d McCain beat the living crap out of him in all those early primaries?
June 8th, 2008 at 1:16 pmYou’re going to have to choose something other than religious persecution. Rounding up 400 kids didn’t work so well.
Cue the religionist whining. Do these polygamists represent true Christianity?
June 8th, 2008 at 1:17 pmThe rich get richer and the dollar is worth less and less! What does a dollar buy these days? 1/5 to 1/4 gallon of gas WOW! The so called stimulus checks are going right back into the pockets of MOBIL CHEVRON execs! This is so ridiculous! Just like the dumb-ass idiot behind it all!
June 8th, 2008 at 1:18 pmBoy, you have some reading comprehension disorder. McIIIrd beat Romney in the primaries, like voters, voting. I don’t remember any animosity, just voters turned off by Romknee’s smug prickishness.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:21 pmAfter Heaven’s Gate and Jonestown, religion has a lot to answer for; polygamists should also get a fair amount of attention, when allegations are brought forth, lest we have a repeat of those horrendous episodes.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:22 pmOUR VERSION OF ACCOUNTABILITY WOULD BE TO IMPEACH THE GUILTY, PUT THEM IN PRISON AND SEIZE ALL THEI ASSET’S…56 YEAR OLD MEN THAT TAKE 14 YEAR OLD’S AS WIVE’S SHOULD GO TO JAIL AS WELL…..
June 8th, 2008 at 1:23 pmWell said, WitchyOne!
June 8th, 2008 at 1:24 pmThen you wonder why we don’t heed the calls of your version of accountability.
Not really. Political laziness infects both parties, but with republicans, it usually results in someone dying from their inaction.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:24 pmSo, Thom P says having multiple wives and pimping underage children is not illegal, but actually “religious persecution”. What would he think of 50 Evangelicals coming over to his double wide trailer and pissing through his screen door on his black velvet picture of baby jesus??
June 8th, 2008 at 1:25 pmMethinks YellowKnee is jealous of the fourteen year old girls..
June 8th, 2008 at 1:25 pmThank’s RUCerious, your knee pee post was priceless…Blessings
June 8th, 2008 at 1:28 pmYellowKnee, if the foo shits, wear it.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:29 pmWhy don’t YOU try to read?
You asked me a straight question — would I disown a poster whose mom did his laundry. I answered that no, I didn’t “disown” you — whatever that means.
Your uncertain rhetorical style and hesitating use of language suggest that you are not yet fully formed, shall we say? Your simplistic political pronouncements suggest that you’re not a deep thinker but believe yourself to be so. It is not a stretch, from these judgments, to assess that you’re still in high school at best, and probably living at home, getting your laundry done by Mom, as most of us did in high school. Whether your laundry has urine stains or not is something I cannot judge. RUC was speaking figuratively, and I simply continued the theme. For some reason, the issue that you chose to focus on was not the urine-soaked trousers, but that your mom did your laundry.
Kind of odd point of focus, wouldn’t you say?
June 8th, 2008 at 1:29 pmWell, if being forced to marry older men at the ages of 14-16, then, yea, that fits the description.
BTW, are you a mormon, Mr. P?
June 8th, 2008 at 1:30 pmI guess he IS in favor of 28 year-old grandmothers.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:31 pmKind of odd point of focus, wouldn’t you say?
It’s tieing a virtual porkchop around his neck, to get us to play with him.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:33 pmLindsey Graham is “The Mole.”
I guess I’m off topic. :D
June 8th, 2008 at 1:36 pmI guess he IS in favor of 28 year-old grandmothers.
On Oprah last week, she had on a puppy-mill rescue operation,that rescued dogs from situations where females were never allowed outside their cages, and forced to breed over a hundred puppies each, before being euthanized.
One guess as to which Christian religious sect is heavily into this foul practice.
Hint: It ain’t Catholics.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:39 pmZoo,
Get back on topic! :-)
(Actually, Limpseed looks more like a ferret.)
June 8th, 2008 at 1:41 pmSorry, upside99.
28 year old grannies it is. ;)
June 8th, 2008 at 1:44 pmIt’s sunday, who give;s a crap about staying on topic…More fun to tease the tiny troll ant that is at our picnic…LOL…..Blessings
June 8th, 2008 at 1:47 pmIt’s sunday, who give;s a crap about staying on topic…More fun to tease the tiny troll ant that is at our picnic…LOL…..Blessings
June 8th, 2008 at 1:47 pmRight Zoo,
28 YO grannies are MUCH more fun than another sexually ambiguous repug Senator!
June 8th, 2008 at 1:48 pmSorry for the double post, or maybe not..You all have a great day, I’m gonna walk bubble butt Bear and feed the bird’s….Blessings
June 8th, 2008 at 1:49 pmWitch1 Says:
Heard some where he has 5 son’s, none of which serve in the war he support’s..Is that the same guy.?..LOL.Think so..Blessings
June 8th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
I do believe it is. And since you bring it up, will McCain be as critical of Romney’s sons for not joining the military in the same way he went after Obama? Or does it only matter that you serve in the military if you only have future political aspirations?
June 8th, 2008 at 1:50 pmIt is amazing that McSame hasn’t already been tarred and feathered by consumers. We haven’t even reached the bottom of this depression and he is piling on, lets give more to our corporations and take it away from the least of you. After all you can afford less a lot more than the CEOs of our party.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:10 pmThompney Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Flagged.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:13 pmThompney Says:
What Romney’s sons do iz nun of your business you nozie lib.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Sure it is. Romney is the one who ignorantly and publicly suggested that by supporting his campaign for president, his sons were serving this country in the same capacity as a soldier in the war on terror. His sons made the decision to put themselves in the public eye, so, yes, what they do IS fair game.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:30 pmCome on Zooey, I wanna toy with em too.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:31 pmMcOops (from Digby):
Were you aware that John McCain wrote the foreward to an edition of The Best And the Brightest? And were you aware that it said this?
It was a shameful thing to ask men to suffer and die, to persevere through god-awful afflictions and heartache, to endure the dehumanizing experiences that are unavoidable in combat, for a cause that the country wouldn’t support over time and that our leaders so wrongly believed could be achieved at a smaller cost than our enemy was prepared to make us pay. No other national endeavor requires as much unshakable resolve as war. If the nation and the government lack that resolve, it is criminal to expect men in the field to carry it alone.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:41 pmbarfly Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Pssst…9/11!
(snark)
June 8th, 2008 at 2:45 pmA Bush enhancement?
June 8th, 2008 at 3:24 pmWhere’s “Smilin’ Bob”?
Lindsay didn’t get the memo.
June 8th, 2008 at 5:58 pmHe was too involved in kissing asses to read.
On McCain — check out this story of his previous marriage, then we can talk about his character. This is the man who is collecting $58,000 in total disability from the military but denies benefits to today’s military!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html
June 8th, 2008 at 6:02 pmLindsey for McCain’s running mate?
He’s got the right demographics, the main one being that he is a white guy. And a doofus.
Beyond that, he’s got the bona fides that just about any wing of the wingnut party could want:
ex (I believe) military JAG (Air Force), so he knows all about how you have to strip law abiding Amer’cins of their civil rights to win the war on ter’ur
conservative protestant, never namby-pamby with the R.R. like McNasty, always ‘gainst the ho-mo-sex-uals
From the south with a real southern accent; at first I thought the name ‘Lindsey’ might be a little off putting for them old boys, but back in the day (antebellum, that is), didn’t they all have names like ‘Ashley,’ or ‘Rhett’ or other weird shit like that? Even more important now that it’s going to be harder than ever to suppress the black vote and get away with it.
From a wingnut perspective, it makes wonderful sense.
June 8th, 2008 at 6:11 pmMarie, you of course have heard the trollopycu*t epsiode, haven’t you?
June 8th, 2008 at 6:14 pmSkeltonguy, yes, but he’s not married. And sort of effeminate.
June 8th, 2008 at 6:15 pmNot a problem for progressives, but the reichwingbiblethumping crowd might have reservations, and I don’t mean Indian land.
Today on ABC’s This Week, Graham stated unequivocally that McCain’s tax and health care policies were not only an extension of Bush’s polices but also an “enhancement”.
How can you buff a turd?
June 8th, 2008 at 6:26 pmI pray this IS something that the American Voters know full well. Make no doubt about it that McBush IS dictator Bushes “Mini-Me” and if McBush is elected, we ARE doomed. Period. Any questions?
JT
June 8th, 2008 at 6:55 pmIs your ISP spying on YOU?
Hey Lumpy:
June 8th, 2008 at 6:58 pmI wasn’t kidding about that ass kicking!
Mr. Graham,
June 8th, 2008 at 7:45 pmyou don’t have to tell us that McCain is a cloned Bush.
Most people by now are aware of this fact.
But what’s strange is that Mr. McSame himself keeps denying it.
#78 RUC
June 8th, 2008 at 7:46 pmYes, I have heard of the Trollop/cu^t remark — it fits, according to the linked story about McCain and how he relates to women.
Marie Says:
On McCain — check out this story of his previous marriage, then we can talk about his character. This is the man who is collecting $58,000 in total disability from the military but denies benefits to today’s military!
McScumbag
June 8th, 2008 at 8:31 pmMcCain has a dilema. If he’s seen as aligning himself with Bush he’ll lose the so called “Reagan Democrats,” the ones who foolishly see him as an independent maverick. But if he distances himself too far from Bush he’ll lose his base, the ones who foolishly see Bush as their savior.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
June 8th, 2008 at 9:05 pmRemember this?
Lindsey Graham, May 4, 2008: John is his own guy. Good luck making him George Bush.,/a>
June 8th, 2008 at 9:24 pmGeorge W. McCain would be just like Bush? I’m Shocked!
Geez, the GOP is a one trick pony, and has been for decades.
June 9th, 2008 at 8:55 amThe funniest part of the entire campaign is McCain calling himself an agent of “change.”
Keep talking, Lindsey. You’re only helping our cause.
June 9th, 2008 at 3:27 pmThis is another example that the “old world jounalism of Murrow, Cronkite and Rather is dead and buried. In the case of the Time Magazine reporter Ms Tumulty, she seems to think the finding out the who, what, where, when and how have been replaced with a steno pad, which she records what ABC said in rebuttle to the complaint of Congressman Kucinich. There is a great disconnect with what happened and the points made by ABC. She asks little of no questions to ABC. She takes what is handed to her and repeats it vebatim and then calls that reporting. I call is stenography. Lida Sohbet sohbet sesli chat Gelinlik Modelleri
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January 30th, 2009 at 2:35 pmI want suits in Colorado, New Jersey, and any other state where illegal suppression campaigns are being conducted. And some real looks at the polling methodology would also be eye opening.
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