Saturday, January 24, 2009
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A Meaningless Cliche, and Some Meaningful Bravado
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Posted by:
Carol Platt Liebau at
3:12 PM
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A friend just emailed me this story from yesterday's Washington Post, wherein John McCain excoriates his fellow Republicans for having the nerve to question whether it's appropriate for the Secretary of State's husband to be receiving donations from foreign sources. In that context, McCain had this to say:
I remind all my colleagues: We had an election. I think the message the American people are sending us now is that they want us to work together, and get to work.
These claims are not new, coming from McCain. But they are meaningless. After all, the American people certainly want politicians to "work together," but only on behalf of causes with which they agree (no one would want politicians united, say, in a drive to raise taxes on everyone by 50%). So the claim isn't true as a universal, but only (perhaps) in a particular situation.
What's more, McCain is plenty willing to speak out when he disagrees with the policy on the table -- one thing he touted in the campaign was his "independence," i.e. his unwillingness to go along with policies he opposed. So, in the end, McCain's call for "working together" only seem to apply when he objects to people objecting to the matter at hand. As I said, the whole "let's work together" thing is a meaningless exhortation designed to bully those who have the effrontery to do anything with which McCain disagrees.
McCain seems totally on message with the new President's bracing reminder to Republicans that "I won." It boggles the mind to think of the press reaction had President Bush asserted the same (true) fact -- certainly in 2001, but even, too, in 2004. This is bravado with meaning -- quite likely a signal that Obama's "bipartisanship" extends only to rhetoric and concessions that mean little to him, rather than all the way to real compromise.
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This drooling fool is why Obama is in the White House today. 99% of the people who voted for this brain dead moron voted because of Sarah Palin or they voted against the Obamanation. Anything this blathering idiot says is foolhardy and irresponsible. |
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Forgot to add this: the reason this was not the Reps year was because they have been behaving like Dems since 2001. McCain was the coup de grace so to speak, a Dem in Rep clothing. Hence my guiltless conscience lack of support. Why vote for either of them when they are both Dems. Reps need to stop rationalizing their support for Obama by saying the majority wants Obama. This was an election, not a war, the fact that the Reps, McCain being the quintessential example, are capitulating instead of fighting for the 58 million people who voted for McCain/conservatism is proof that they do not deserve any further support. |
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Gee, thanks for the rebuke. I feel real bad now. Joe, if you and others can rebuild the GOP into a party that practices Reagan policies, you will get my votes and money again. Until that day, I will sit on the sidelines, regarding the GOP, without a feelings of guilt. Since it was the 'moderate' big spending Reps who brought us to this point, you can blame guys like me all you want, I don't care. My conscience is clear. Now that so many of us evil conservatives are bailing out, you will have the moderate Rep party you prefer. Like so many others have and are saying, I am conservative first, then/was a Rep. Good luck winning elections in the future. |
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Last straw or not, you apparently must have helped Obama win Virgina by not voting for McCain. Live with it. McCain has his flaws, but I would have preferred him to be President over Obama, but this was not the GOP year. Somehow I doubt Duncan Hunter or some other conservative could have pulled off a victory in 2008.
It is time to start rebuilding. |
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Typical McCain. His selection was the last straw for me, and many like minded conservatives, in relation to the GOP. The GOP isn't conservative except in comparison to the Dems, which obviously doesn't necessarily mean anything. I'm gone for good from the GOP as are many, many others. Good luck winning without all us 'nativists', 'extremists', etc. We have no party to represent us, so we will not be participating until we find a party that actually practices Reagan conservatism.
Excellent analysis by Carol. BTW. |
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"If you don't like my posts, don't read them. Simple as that."
Good advice. It's the same as avoiding the dog turds on the sidewalks of Paris. At least the dog turd is evidence that the dog who left it there has accomplished something worthwhile. |
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In the middle of Evan Thomas' insidery campaign book, A Long Time Coming, there is a section on early conflict between John McCain and Barack Obama in the Senate, even before Obama was openly running for president. I thought this bit was interesting for more than one reason:
Obama further aliented McCain on the immigration issue. McCain took great political risks on immigration, defying the GOP faithful who wanted to build a wall across the Mexican border and arrest and detain illegal immigrants. Working with Ted Kennedy and a bipartisan group, McCain came up with compromise legislation to create a guest-worker program. Obama asked to join the group. The senators agreed to hang together to vote against amendments from both the right and the left. Some very conservative senators honored the agreement, voting against conservative amendments -- but Obama did not, voting in favor of a number of liberal amendments. After one meeting, Kennedy chewed Obama out for his fickleness. (Months later, asked by a colleague why he had endorsed Obama for president, Kennedy gave a one-word answer: "Caroline.")
Without reading too much into this anecdote, on immigration, at least, Barack Obama took care of his base and John McCain did not, and his base included Caroline Kennedy. She must indeed be a little bitter about now.
http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2009/01/john-and-ted-and-caro line.html
Sweet Princess Caroline, under the bus! The Kennedys are going to war! http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/01/25/kennedy_famil y_furious_with_paterson.html |
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...to get back in good graces with his buddies in the MSM who stabbed him in the back during the campaign. He wants his 15 minutes back. But to call him a conservative...well, that's a stretch - a very long stretch.
I concluded he was better than the current president for the job, and he is - but not by much. |
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finally shows all his true colors.
Yeah, there is talk of "working together", especially from the left.
Yet the left, since about 2003, REFUSED to work with GWB.
All they've known the last 5 years is to smear and lie.
I have a proposal for you.......
I will give our current President EXACTLY the same amount of respect that the left gave our last one. |
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Finally took my McCain lawn sign down - thanks John |
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You posted: "Whine, beotch and moan like petty children with entitlement issues."
That seems to be about the limit of your input here too.
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that I didn't contribute to his silly "America First" PAC along with a whole lot of other people that just deleted that annoying email. He revealed himself as an old Senate hack with that dumb move to return to DC to "help solve the financial crisis." No one believed the Congress could fix a tiolet let alone the economy - hence their poll numbers back then as opposed to Bush's. He'll fade into obscurity soon enough. Just humor him for now. |
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McCain is the democrats 60th vote in the senate.
Way to go John. I was holding my nose when i voted for you and regret i did. But what choice did we have? the soros socialist or the repub patsy.
You might try speaking out against the opposition every once in a while instead of your own peeps.
And the message is we don't like the direction the country's taking. I don't want my tax dollars paying for abortion around the world etc etc.
Why don't you use that ole maverick style, walk up to obambi, put your hand on his shoulder and deliver a message for me.
We don't want socialism. We don't like george soros' vision for America.
Yet it seems there is no chance for anything but a massive expansion of govt. It's the perfect storm. pelosi, reid, mccain and obambi.
Republicans roll over and America becomes france. or worse; a caricature of a once great nation. arrogant and spineless.
Right on Carol.
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I see you post here on a regular basis, never anything but conservative bashing, it gets old. Why not go somewhere where your like minded friends are and leave us to muse amongst ourselves?
Just askin? |
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Joe:
You are too late. McCain has already proved the criticisms of him were fully justified.
Looks like he still doesn't understand why he lost and never will |
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“I’m picturing Rush delirious with glee, pacing the cavernous rooms of his mansion, booming out monologues to his kitty cat Pumpkin, as he waits for Monday noon to finally roll around. This will be good.”
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I hope next time around we have a real conservative in the race, the "Democrat Lite" candidate couldn't beat the Democrat! |
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Senator McCain. I defended you up and down against Virginia Patriot, Pasadena Phil, Gunlock Bill and others. Do me a favor, don't prove them right and me wrong. Get your head out of your butt and start acting like a conservative. You can be "mavericky" like Barry Goldwater if you want on some social issues, but stay with the friggin conservative program on the core principals. |
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