John McCain hopes Congress will have the "courage" to support Bush

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2005/02/06/budget_cuts/index.html

Feb. 6, 2005 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush's $2.5 trillion budget is shaping up as his most austere, trying to restrain spending across a wide swath of government from popular farm subsidies to poor people's health programs.

Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday defended the plan against Democratic criticism that Bush had to seek steep cuts in scores of federal programs because he is unwilling to roll back first-term tax cuts that opponents contend primarily benefited the wealthy.

Sen. Kent Conrad, the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, said Bush's budget "talks about the next five years of reducing deficits, but what that hides is what happens after that five-year window. The cost of everything he advocates explodes."

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., praised the administration's willingness to tackle the deficit. "I'm glad the president is coming over with a very austere budget. I hope we in Congress will have the courage to support it," he told ABC's "This Week."

[Goldeneye]

1. What do they have on McCain?

[shoelace414]

3. Moderates don't make it through presidental primaries

[ebayfool]

6. Apparently, everything they need!

McCain needs to bite me.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. I know. This has been my thought ever since I saw the "face in the

armpit" picture during the campaign. What awful horrible skeleton in his closet do they swing in front of his face everytime they want him to ape in front of the camera for them?

[ashmanonar]

20. maybe poppy paid the north vietnamese to hold him a while longer...

just like he made a deal with the iranians to hold the hostages until it was certain that jimmy carter had lost.

[atreides1]

19. A Little Light

For some reason McCain has continued to stonewall requests to look at his POW records, this would include his debriefing after he was released.

Could there be something in these records that the good Senator does not want to go public?

To this day the Pentagon insists that it cannot release any of McCain's documents, because it needs an official release from him
designating a surrogate before it can show his debriefing report to anyone else.

But can we all guess who can get access to that report without an official release from the good Senator?

I know we can.

[complain jane]

2. Courage my ass, he's Bush's biatch

I have absolutely no respect for him after the way he's kissed Bush's ass after everything Bush did to him. What a loser.

[NewJeffCT]

4. good luck in expecting courage from Republicans

I can see it sometimes from McCain, but who else since Lowell Weicker?

[atreides1]

11. McCain

Only shows courage, when Bush says he can. That way the Bush party hacks can make old John into the bad guy when they need a flunkie.

And the good Senator does exactly as his lord and master tells him to do, and when to do it.

[atreides1]

5. Let's All Remember

That according to the new guidelines established by the Inquisitor General, that John McCain was not tortured by the North Vietnamese.

Therefore he cannot be considered a hero in any way.

[complain jane]

9. NICE!

LOL!

[ebayfool]

14. Good point, hope he appreciates the irony of the vote that he cast for ..

his fearless leader's new 'Inquisitor General'. Guess he ratcheted up his courage for that one, too!

[Ilsa]

7. McCain is chomping at the bit to chow down at the RNC trough

to get that support his his 2008 run. I wish his "austerity" applied to conducting wars instead of providing for the people.

Hey McCain, people need more butter, less guns.

[pnutchuck]

8. What is up with McCain? I think he suffers from multiple personality

disorder. One day he seems to be a man that follows his conscience and does what's right, the next he' drinking the kool-aid.

[durablend]

13. Nothing new...just another day on the ranch...

McCain can eat shit for all I care

[ashling]

10. McCain left his courage in VietNam

He certainly hasn't shown any of it lately.

On Edit: Post #5 was not up when I started typing. I thorougly agree. Kudos to you, my good friend.

[NewJeffCT]

15. Where did you get your sig line?

I know the top translates as 'Female Dog' from Chinese and the bottom is Insult.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

21. It was an Alta Vista / BabelFish translation from Japanese

Top line is "bitch." Bottom line is "disgrace." Babelfish is not always 100% reliable, but this one was close enough for rock & roll.

:toast:

[NewJeffCT]

23. ack, I had my wife translate it from Chinese

But, I know babelfish is 25-50% accurate on Chinese.

[Art_from_Ark]

16. Interesting Chinese characters you've got there

The top pair mean "female dog". The bottom pair mean "shame" or "humiliation". Quite appropriate, I would say.

[ladjf]

17. John McCain is as bad, if not worse, than the other Republican

crooks.

[City Lights]

18. It doesn't take courage to be a "yes" man.

Yo, mccain, the word yer lookin' fer is cowardice.

Johnnie Boy, it takes courage to oppose the wicked chimp.

[txaslftist]

22. ...and in Neocon lexicon, "courage" means "cowardice"...

...or "have the courage to do as you're told."

[beltanefauve]

24. John McCain

Is a lying, traitorous, two-faced ass-licker.He is no hero. He is not a patriot. He is not the "fence-mender", or one who reaches across the aisles, as has been popularly touted regarding McCain-Feingold. And he is no moderate. His anti-choice views are said to be even more extreme than Bush's. And he keeps on plugging for W, even after the way he was set up and smeared in the 2000 primaries. He truly is Bush's bitch.

Just had to get that off my chest. I'm tired of the tag line "McCain is a "moderate".