Where Have You Been for 26 Years?
September 6th, 2008 at 12:15pm Kevin Patrick
Quite unwisely, Barack Obama has been derisively tossing out this bromide regarding McCain’s service in the Senate implicating he has not been bringing change to Washington. Well John Podhoretz has a rather devastating response to the rattled junior Senator from Illinois:
Here’s where I have been.
I changed campaign-finance law.
I changed telecommunications law.
I took on the tobacco companies when other Republicans wouldn’t.
I took on the cable companies when they wouldn’t let people choose what channels they might want to watch.
I saw a standoff in the Senate on confirming judges and I changed a standoff into a bipartisan agreement.
I took on the earmarks and the Bridge to Nowhere and the breaks for oil companies you, Obama, voted for in 2005.
And I helped change the war in Iraq from a defeat into what appears to be a victory.Where have you been for 26 years?”
Ummm Senator, we’re waiting . . . .
JPod notes in a comment on this same blog post at Powerline blog: “There really is no case to be made for the go along/get along careerist, Barack Obama.”
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5 Comments
1. Steamroller | September 6th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
I took on the earmarks and the Bridge to Nowhere
For the sake of the American taxpayers could he at least ask his running mate what the hell did Alaska do with the Bridge to Nowhere money given to them but never spent on the bridge because of American taxpayer anger?
2. neocon | September 6th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
steamroller,
As soon as we find out where the Annenberg money went.
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/08/authoritarian-radicals-barack-obama.html
3. McCain ACTS…Obama&#&hellip | September 6th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
[...] Where Have You Been for 26 Years? [...]
4. Danish Artist | September 6th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
The resident leftists are still on the “bridge to nowhere” talking point?
Their candidate voted against the Coburn amendment S11690 to HR3058 which would have diverted funds from the “bridge to nowhere” to rebuilding the I-10 twin span across Lake Pontchartrain damaged by Hurricane Katrina. A major highway and evacuation route.
Obama’s vote to divert funds from the earmark to the hurricane stricken area - NAY!!! OOPS!!!
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00262
But, mindless lemming Obamatons, please continue with that talking point. It shows your desperation and blind support of a candidate who rarely saw an earmark he did not like.
5. The Masses Opiate | September 6th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Effects Of An Obama Win
Things to count on if Obama Wins.
-A progressive tax system that soaks the rich and dries up investment
-A windfall profits tax on oil companies that further off shores production and increases our balance of trade deficit.
-A rougher time ahead for US auto stocks, given his past attacks on these companies and investor expectations.
-Higher food prices as he pushes for renewable energy
-Liberal judge appointments leading to higher tort costs, lower competitiveness and fewer US jobs.
-Weakening of NAFTA
-An illegal alien influx into America given his stated policy to not send back the 12,000,000 illegal’s here.
-The signing of the Kyoto Accord and the loss of 5% GDP.
-An economy strangling universal health care program.
-Higher oil prices.