What John McCain Intends to Do
October 11th, 2008 at 02:14am Mark Noonan
Sounds like a great plan to me:
As a senator, I’ve seen the corrupt ways of Washington in wasteful spending and other abuses of power. As president I’m going to end these abuses — whatever it takes.
I will propose and sign into law reforms to bring tax relief to the middle class and help to businesses so they can create jobs…. I will get the rising cost of food and gas under control…. I will help families keep their home, and help students struggling to pay for college…. I will make health care more accessible and affordable. … I will impose a spending freeze on all but the most vital functions of government.
I will review every agency of the federal government, improve those that need to be improved and eliminate those that aren’t working for the American people…. I will confront the ten trillion-dollar debt that the federal government has run up, and balance the federal budget by the end of my term in office…
…on taxes, we see a difference between what Senator Obama says today, what he said yesterday, and what he has actually done. During the Democratic primary, he promised to double taxes on every American with a dividend or an investment. He promised to raise payroll taxes. He promised higher taxes on electricity. He voted for the Democratic budget resolution that promised to raise taxes on people making just 42,000 dollars a year.
And now all of the sudden Senator Obama claims he will give 95 percent of Americans tax relief. What he hasn’t told you is that he would tax half of the income of small business in America. These are the people who have actually added 350,000 jobs at a time when America lost 700,000 jobs. They are the backbone of our economy, and our best hope to get America back on track. When I’m president, their taxes are going down instead of up, and we’re going to help them create jobs for America.
On spending, Barack Obama will increase government spending by over 860 billion dollars. That’s on top of the trillions in debt that we’ve already burdened our children and grandchildren with. He claimed in our debate that somehow he’ll still end up with a net cut in spending, Only Barack Obama could sell an 860 billion dollar federal spending increase as a net reduction in federal spending.
When I’m president, the spending reductions will be real, and I’ll cut the size of government. I will put the government back on the side of America’s working families, and I will get this country moving again. (emphasis added)
Reform, spending reductions, smaller government…was someone out there wondering where the Reaganism had got to? It might have been hidden a bit by campaign finance reform, but it was residing in the heart and mind of John McCain all this time, and now he proposes to give us another dose of the medicine which cured us before, and will cure us again. And to just make things even better, he has selected a Reaganite Vice Presidential candidate - as Senator McCain might put it, “my friends, in McCain/Palin you might get as much as 16 years of unabashed Reaganism”. What more could a conservative and a Republican want?
I saw a longish ad from Barack Obama on TV this past evening, and in it he was earnestly pontificating on how the current financial crisis is proof that “trickle down” economics doesn’t work - which would be fine, if anyone had ever advocated something called “trickle down” economics. That was, of course, the phrase used to denigrate Reagan’s economic plan which, boiled down, was an assertion that the people will be better stewards of the national wealth than government would be. Obama, of course, realizes none of this - back during Reagan’s term he didn’t pay attention to what was going on and preferred to step into the leftwing world of make believe…and somewhere in there he was instructed that Reagan’s plan was “trickle down” economics. And now he says it doesn’t work - because of the financial crisis…which was actually caused by his own Democrats.
While he is well spoken and telegenic, Obama is a man who knows nothing - my concern about him becoming President is now only partially about the hard left policies he’ll pursue because he’s told to do so…my larger worry is that in his faltering, ignorant hands the whole world could go to heck in a handbasket. He’s a man who would actually believe the IMF when it says that all the world’s economies should coordinate their efforts during a crisis; he’s a man who would actually believe that the UN could take the lead in a global crisis; he’s a man who would actually believe that people will respect the United States if we would just conform ourselves to their expectations…he’s a man, in short, who will be played for a sucker on the world stage by every tinpot dictator and corrupt, Euro-trash politician on the make. American policy will become a plaything of the academic left while the real actions of the world are taken by nations who, even if they are wrong, believe in actual actions and actual consequences.
We can prevent all of this by the simple expedient of electing John McCain President of the United States. He will do things which will infuriate, at times, both the right and the left - but he’ll be honest, courageous and realistic. His actions will be governed by actualities, not by half-baked theories from colleges still stuck intellectually in 1968. In the end, I expect it will be so - that my fellow Americans will turn towards the proven fighter for America, rather than the empty suit with a grand, set-piece speaking style. The left will never forgive America for this - but, then again, they’ve always hated America and always will - but I do pray that honest liberals will do the right thing on November 4th - put aside their hatred of President Bush and vote for the better man with the better plan.
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19 Comments
1. Willem van Oranje | October 11th, 2008 at 2:50 am
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2. Willem van Oranje | October 11th, 2008 at 2:56 am
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3. Willem van Oranje | October 11th, 2008 at 3:13 am
Why do you hate it that economists support Obama and not McCain?
4. nemesis | October 11th, 2008 at 3:43 am
John McCain:
“I want to be president of the United States, and I don’t want Obama to be,” he said. “But I have to tell you, I have to tell you, he is a decent person, and a person that you do not have to be scared as President of the United States.”
Forget every thing else at the moment McCain does not know how to run a campaign. Period!
This is just ridiculous and whimpy, Obama is having McCain for breakfast.
5. Dennis | October 11th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Mark your remarkable conviction that Obama knows nothing, and that he will do what he’s told (by whom you don’t say), that he will be played for a sucker, that you somehow are so much wiser and more knowledgeable than he is, makes one wonder why you aren’t a presidential contender instead of him or John McCain. What happened to your civic duty, if you are of such superior timber?
The clue comes in your rant that leftists have always hated America, and always will. You have a fever of the brain, my friend. You really should take a leave from politics. It is ruining you, as surely as it has ruined Sen. McCain.
The hatred that McCain and Palin have wakened in the extremists who attend their rallies reminds me of the latent hatreds that were wakened between Serbs and Bosnians in the wake of Tito’s death, by Milosevic and Karadzic. It never had to happen, but once those forces are unleashed it is very hard to put them back in a box.
McCain lost the election this last week by going irretrievably negative. Once he realized it, he feebly tried to moderate some of the ugliness he and his running mate have unleashed, but it’s too little and far too late.
Did you see Michelle Obama on Larry King on Wednesday night? What a class act. Not the slightest bit of rancor or bitterness toward anyone, even in the wake of McCain’s scorched-earth campaign. She and Barack have set a tremendous example of a Christian demeanor before America. It is something we have not seen the equal of in politics in a very long time.
6. nemesis | October 11th, 2008 at 4:36 am
Did you see Michelle Obama on Larry King on Wednesday night? What a class act.
Why? because she was not offended by McCain using “That one” remark?
I mean how childish do you have to be to be offended by something like that?
Larry King tried to get something out of her, but even Michelle realized how infantile this would be.
You want to see a class act? look at Palin and how she has handled all the frothing and spewing from the mouths of the biggest hypocrites on this earth namely your Liberal comrades.
7. js | October 11th, 2008 at 8:05 am
ya know…if obama really were that christian kind of guy you talk about…then why did he spend twenty years listening to the likes of wright at trinity church?
and…in his books…why would a christian write “What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice,” Obama said. “He’s much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I’m not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that’s involved in national politics” when wright is such a racist…
oh…hiding behind the pulpit worked for wright…twenty years or so…and obama…is hiding the same way…lies and indirect half truths about who and what he is…obama has
“recreated himself” at least 3 or 4 times since July…and a dozen more times before that…
his inability to hold to the same principals, to the same stands on the issues, that he had during the primaries….is his death knoll in the election…because what he is doing is exposing the typical washington insider…that will say anything and everything to get elected…no matter how big the lie…he is going to say it…
he started out say he would have pulled our troops out of iraq by last march….
and now he is begging the iraqi government to not agree to the same thing until he is (if he is) elected POTUS…
well he violated the law again…negotiating with a foreign government…interfering with the bush administration…and selfish obama is getting himself known by people…as a liar…a shady schemer…and a racist to boot…how far can he get with that track record…
8. SEW | October 11th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Enough with McCain. Hussein is putting his finishing touches on “free” wink, wink, housing. Next stop for the Great Society started by LBJ is “free” wink wink, healthcare. Then Obama will show his hand and move fully into redistribution of wealth, even though wealth will have disappeared. Surprise, surprise. In fact, the initial phase of the plan, affirmative action loans may sink wealth all by itself.
Thanks Barry!
Obama/Biden 08
9. searp | October 11th, 2008 at 10:09 am
It sounds like a great plan to anyone who is completely ignorant of the federal budget.
The “freeze” exempts defense and entitlements. Presumably interest on the national debt must be paid. The “spending freeze” is only for 16.7% of the budget.
For those that are ignorant on this subject, try Wiki on the budget so that you can see how transparently useless this “freeze” would be:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Fy2008spendingbycategory.png
So basically the McCain plan is predicated on someone being so ignorant of the budget that they think it would be effective to “freeze” 16.7% of the budget.
10. searp | October 11th, 2008 at 10:15 am
We have seen these empty promises of smaller government from every Republican since Herbert Hoover.
What Reagan et. al. really meant was cut taxes and borrow the shortfall needed to grow the federal government. They don’t care about smaller government, they use taxes as a vote-buying scheme.
The federal government grew under Reagan, grew massively under Bush.
Well, you know the voters take a while, but since most voters understand a checkbook and credit cards, they now understand this particular fraud.
Try a different one Mark, this one has been discredited by history.
11. SEW | October 11th, 2008 at 10:31 am
“ey don’t care about smaller government, they use taxes as a vote-buying scheme.
The federal government grew under Reagan, grew massively under Bush.”
There it is, ACORN, Dodd, Pelosi, and most of all Barney are puppets of Bush and Reagan! Thanks for clarifying! How ignorant of neocons not to recognize that! And of course affirmative action loans started by Carter and upgraded by Clinton, two more Bush/Reagan puppets.
12. Silverlake | October 11th, 2008 at 10:39 am
What John McCain Intends to Do October 11th, 2008 at 02:14am Mark Noonan
It is very clear what McCain intends to do. As a statesman he will put country above his own personal politics and ambitions. Void of ideas on the economy and after two weeks of the most negative campaigning the polls are not moving in his favor. In fact the gap grows. McCain has been in many campaigns and knows unless Obama makes a major misstep McCain will lose this election. But unlike a Bush or Cheney he will not let his ambitions take the country down with him. He is getting an inside view of the radical hate machine of Hannity, Limbaugh, and Charlie Black. The very same hate machine that did him in 2000 and does not like what he sees. At this rate he sees the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln becoming nothing more than a subset of the KKK.
From town hall meeting in Minnesota:
Older Woman: “I have read about him. He’s an Arab”.
“No, ma’am. No, ma’am. He’s a decent, family man, citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that’s what this campaign is all about.” Said Senator John McCain
Crowd: “Booooooooooooooo”
P.S. Mark liberals do not hate Bush. We merely find him extremely incompetent, polarizing, and unwilling to learn from his mistakes.
13. merge divide | October 11th, 2008 at 10:56 am
“You want to see a class act? look at Palin and how she has handled all the frothing and spewing from the mouths of the biggest hypocrites on this earth”
You are confused. It was John McCain that tried to quell the hateful rhetoric being spilled from the mouths of his followers.
14. CanadianObserver | October 11th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Deleted - bogus accusations of racism; only warning on this issue for commenter.
15. searp | October 11th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
SEW:
You know, it takes a very, very peculiar person to blame every Republican failing on random Democrats.
Ordinary people who use logic once and a while, even my Republican friends, understand and agree with what I said, as does Mike Pence.
16. Nate | October 11th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
independent analysis of plans of both candidates do not show what mccain says to be accurate.
“I mean how childish do you have to be to be offended by something like that?”
offended? how about concerned — either mccain forgot obama’s name or actively chose not to use it when they were within a few feet of each other. the former, if he is elected to potus, should lead to great worry every time he sits down with a world leader, the latter shows disrespect. which is it — forgetfullness or disrespect?
17. CanadianObserver | October 11th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Deleted - pushing it.
18. TalkingPoint | October 11th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Why do you hate it that economists support Obama and not McCain?
Because economists, much like education, science, the media, facts, and reality, have a liberal bias.
John McCain also is going to fix Social Security and find bin Laden. How? Well, he’s not going to tell us. We have to put him in office first, and then he’ll put his secret plans into action. Makes total sense!
19. nemesis | October 11th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Nate:
offended? how about concerned — either mccain forgot obama’s name or actively chose not to use it when they were within a few feet of each other. the former, if he is elected to potus, should lead to great worry every time he sits down with a world leader, the latter shows disrespect. which is it — forgetfullness or disrespect?
As I recall in the first debate, it was Obama who forgot whom he was debating with at one stage of the event…
Remember? he called McCain “Tom” “John”…….that’s what happens when you have no experience and rely on memorizing your lines.