Good Richard's Almanac: McCain: "I Don't Want Him To Fail"

March 10, 2009

McCain: "I Don't Want Him To Fail"

David Rogers via Politico...

After a losing presidential campaign in 2000, John McCain came back to the Senate and established himself as a force no White House could ignore. Eight years later, he’s home from defeat again, facing a very different landscape dominated by President Barack Obama and the collapsing American economy.

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“These are terrible, perilous times, so I will seek ways to work with the president of the United States,” McCain says in an interview. “I don’t want him to fail in his mission of restoring our economy.”

Mr. McCain wants to "work with the president?"

We’re pouring billions and billions of dollars into (banks) with not only no improvement, but their stocks continue to plummet,” McCain says. “I think we have been pursuing the wrong strategy.”

“There is no clear message,” he says of Obama’s Treasury. “They’re just sort of lurching from one crisis to another, and that’s the perception the American people have.”

Oh, I see. Losing the Presidential election for helping nationalize the banking system, then opposing it a month later must be a stable, rock-solid message.

Only under circumstances which are vastly different from what they are doing now,” he says. “They would have to present a blueprint that not only convinces me but frankly that convinces the Warren Buffetts and the Jack Welches ... people we would look up to who are experts who would say this plan will work. We don’t hear that.”

Oh, I get it. Buffet supported Obama, but now that Buffet realizes he's the radical we all said he was, ye old Oracle has come to his senses. That must also be what McCain considers a stable, rock-solid message. We should listen to him more often!

Clearly, their policies are evolving,” McCain says of Treasury. “I was supportive of their housing proposal. I didn’t think it went far enough, but I was supportive of that.”

“It’s the housing crisis that started this conflagration, and it will be the stabilization of home values that stops it.”

Sigh. It would've been nice if McCain could've said that during the campaign. What is it with the Newts, Steeles and McCains of the world? Why can't they see that their mealy-mouth politics aren't just damning their party, but damaging the country.

If they would oppose the Leftist agenda with a simple, reasoned, *gasp* consistent message, they might have a better chance at protecting the nation. Instead, they spend all their time trying to quantify just how offensive certain people's comments are.

Our government is based on a notion of checks and balances. The idea that opposition limits unwise, radical legislation from being enacted. What then, does it mean when everyone wants to "work together?"

Like it or not, Johnny, you are the President's opposition. The country would be well-served if you would act like it!

If Con is the opposite of Pro, Congress is the opposite of unwise, radical legislation.

Posted by Richard at March 10, 2009 1:07 AM

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