September 6th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

Barfly, you left out the ‘anti-plank’ plank.

After Republicans took over control of Congress in 1994 and Republicans assumed committee chairmanships, earmarks in the House increased dramatically, rising to record levels, up until Republicans lost control in January 2007 of House committee chairs.

Since then, Democrats in charge have actually addressed the obscene level and number of earmarks generated under Republican mis-rule, decreasing their number and aggregate taxpayer dollar amount.

So, once again, the culture of corruption and greed Republicans misrepresent something, trying to lay blame on “Washington” when it is really them. They have proven that they have been and are still responsible for “wasteful Washington spending.” (Iraq War, SDI, no-bid contracts to crony Republican companies, government bailouts of malfeasant corporations, etc etc etc, ad nauseum).

“Wasteful Republican Washington spending” has driven up the federal deficit, mortgaged the future of our nation’s children and when combined with the constant, insane calls by Republicans to keep cutting taxes for our nation’s wealthiest citizens, keeps digging our nation into a deeper and deeper fiscal hole.

I’m not fooled. The Republicans are the ones who are solely responsible for many of the major disasters our nation has experienced over the past thirty years, and if they are allowed by We The People to continue dragging our nation down the path to Armageddon, then our nation, and our nation’s children, will suffer even more disasters in years to come, disasters that would have been wholly preventable if not for the Republicans and their completely insane ideology.

think before you start your ridiculous opposite bs comments.
you don’t understand how silly and off the fly your bs sounds. doyoua?

I like a good debate as anyone here. but you are playing stupid very well. instead of become informed you become more of an uneducated dingbat. Use the internet to back up your bs.

I know it’s a trait you are born with and something you can not help. I know this.

TP will help you to stop your bs. TP will help you to refrain from looking silly and naive.
to help you with you plight, take issue with the “Recommend” numbers. Locate between the parentheses. Note the parentheses “(0)” (w/o the quotes.)

Zero on all your comments means, I will try to be kind to you because I know you need it, you sux big
time all the time.

there are sites set up for your troubles. seek them.

repugs don’t know how to run on truth, fairness and honesty. when they try to they look fake, over-the-top (something like a drag queen.) no offense to drag queens.

Ain’t nobody surprised that one-time pta member repug mom was chosen. It’s so convoluted, a hot mess.

I don’t whether to laugh or cry.

my numbers aren’t good in the previous post, here’s link with better info:
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No wonder you like this source… they’re as good at pretzel logic as you are…

“However, McCain’s support of President Bush’s position has been as low as 77 percent (in 2005), and his support for his party’s position has been as low as 67 percent (2001).

Democrats are, of course, attempting to make the case that a vote for McCain is a vote to continue the policies of Bush, whose approval ratings are, to put it charitably, not a political asset for McCain.

Is 95% “Significant”?

As for whether voting with Bush 95 percent of the time last year is “significant,” that’s a matter of opinion that we leave to readers to determine for themselves.
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Oh yeah, and they’re non-partisan.

LibertyLover that is a good point.
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But… but… McCain is a MODERATE!!!

Hey, wanna hear John’s latest rape joke???

Isn’t the whole republican platform symbolic?

Political gestures such as the anti-choice plank, the anti-gay (pro-straight marriage) plank, the tax cut plank, and the anti-environment (pro-drilling) plank?

Another issue is the point that McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time. That’s not all that significant when you consider that Obama voted with his party 96% of the time. It is generally rare when politicians part with their party. But, if that’s the measure – McCain has crossed the aisle more than Obama.

Apparently, you miss the point. Obama is not trying to run away from Democratic policies or principles and is not making that claim. McBush is making the claim that he is different than the policies of President Bush.

I’d have to look at other conservatives and liberals for comparison, but this information makes McCain’s positions look relatively moderate.
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Don’t bother. You’re using the McCain of 2005 – 2006 as a yardstick, and that McCain no longer exists. Every “maverick” position he ever had has been morphed and flip-flopped until it matches the basic neocon model. He once had a principled stand against torture, which he has all but abandoned. He once stood up to tobacco companies — but voted against the SCHIP expansion because of the tobacco tax. He once championed the environment and alternative energy — now he’s in bed with Big Oil.

McCain may have once been a moderate on some issues. He no longer is.

Another issue is the point that McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time. That’s not all that significant when you consider that Obama voted with his party 96% of the time. It is generally rare when politicians part with their party. But, if that’s the measure – McCain has crossed the aisle more than Obama.
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This is one of the favorite rebuttals people using when defending McCain for voting with Bush and the rest of the neocons as often as he has. “…but…but…but…Obama votes with HIS party MORE!”

This has nothing to do with who “crossed the aisle more” — why does everything have to be a p!ssing contest? There is nothing wrong with voting with your party when your party is doing the right thing. It’s when your party is taking the country completely on the wrong track and you are running a campaign where you are trying to distance yourself from what your party has done for the past eight years that a high percentage of agreement becomes a problem.

If Obama was condemning the party he voted with 96% of the time, you can bet we would be calling him a hypocrite — just as we are with McCain for doing precisely that.

http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_it_true_john_mccain_voted_with.html

Another issue is the point that McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time. That’s not all that significant when you consider that Obama voted with his party 96% of the time. It is generally rare when politicians part with their party. But, if that’s the measure – McCain has crossed the aisle more than Obama.

$2 billion dollars annually goes to our Israel.

Now I don’t want to sound like I’m anti Israel but why do we continue to give them $ 2 billion dollars a year? Do they not have their own economy, their own military (with nuclear weapons) Don’t get me wrong I feel for the people of Israel and for the people of Palistine as they are ruled by governments just as evil as our own.

Why doesn’t our leaders follow the constitution when it tells them not to get involved in foreign affairs? When will we learn from our mistakes? We create, arm and fund our future enemies time after time after time.

During WWII we trained 15-19 year old Chinese to become fighter pilots at Pensacola. We later fought against these same fighter pilots flying Russian MiGs during the Korean war. We over threw the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran and replaced him with a dictator and US puppet which we can now link to todays problems with Iran.

We armed, funded and trained “freedom fighters” including Osama Bin Laden and the presursor to the Taliban and Al Qaida during the Soviet/Afghanistan war. We sold chemical weapons to Saddam Hussien, the very weapons that Hussein then used own his own people and on Iran (Why do you think we rushed his execution? The trial of his use of chemical weapons was coming up next, we could let the world hear about the weapons we sold him) Now we have an unstable Pakistan to deal with and whats next? Georgia getting pulled back into Russia?

I wonder how many votes he missed that year. I wouldn’t put it past him to skip out on votes that would’ve make his voting record a true reflection of his sentiments – were he to actually vote.