Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told “Fox News Sunday” this morning that he would not support the stimulus package as the House Democrats have written it because it includes too much wasteful spending.
The stimulus currently includes $275 billion in tax cuts and doesn’t include Republican input or a spending timeline, McCain said.
“There should be an end point to all of this spending.say two years…The plan was written by the Democratic majority in the House primarily. So yeah, I think there has to be major rewrites, if we want to stimulate the economy,” McCain said. “I am opposed to most of provisions in the bill. As it stands now. I would not support it.”
McCain wouldn’t say whether he would filibuster it.
“We need serious negotiations,” he said. “We’re losing sight of what the stimulus is all about and that is job creation.”
Of course, I don’t think we “lost sight” of what the stimulus is all about – in the sense that it always was about Democrats rewarding their contributors and buying votes. If any jobs were created along they way, Democrats would be ok with that…as long as they weren’t created in Republican districts, of course.
The GOP must make it clear – as McCain has done – that this Obamanomics boondoggle is all Democrat, all the time. This plan, as presented, will fail miserably and cause our already weak economy to collapse completely – when everything goes smash, we don’t want any GOP fingers on it because Democrats will brazenly blame us for failure if they can put even one GOPers name on it in a leadership position. We want our hands clean and our party able to credibly state that we warned when it was proposed, offered solid alternatives and opposed it when it came up for a vote.
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