McCain to Obama: "Republicans MUST be part of Stimulus Talks"

[SuperTrouper]

Excerpts:

Senator John McCain on Monday heaped more pressure on Barack Obama to modify his 819-billion-dollar stimulus package and insisted the US president "seriously negotiate" with Republicans on a new version...

"Look, this crisis started with housing," McCain said. "It's going to end when we stabilize housing -- home prices."

Jon Kyl, the Republicans' second-ranking senator, has called for Obama and his Senate allies to "start from scratch" on the stimulus bill.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090202/pl_afp/uspoliticsobamaeconomyrepublicans_20090202145105

[Triana]

1. NO. It started with DEREGULATION during the Ray Gun years, jackass...

....thus, Republicans need to STFU.

(note: 'jackass' refers to McSame, not any DUer and certainly not the OP!)

[Champion Jack]

6. Exactly right

BTW Johnnie boy, in case you don't remember, you lost. So shut the hell up.

[sybylla]

15. That's almost word for word what I yelled back at the TV

last week when another puke idiot made the same claim.

[Ganja Ninja]

19. Yup it started with deregulation and irresponsible tax cutting and

job exporting unfair trade. We've destroyed our economy following the plan laid out by a man that was already beginning to show signs of increasing memory loss and developing senility.

[muntrv]

2. Ya ya ya! Let the market forces work!

:eyes:

[Xipe Totec]

3. Look, this crisis started with us in the GOP...

Who better to fix the economy than the guys who broke it.

:eyes:

[liberal N proud]

4. Note to McCain

They have been, they just didn't get everything they want. Something they are not used to following the disappearance of bu$h and Cheney.

[liberalmuse]

5. Republicans got us into this mess with their endless war and tax cuts.

I think it's way past time they became irrelevant to the stimulus discussion. Sen Kerry has it right. Fuck them.

[AtomicKitten]

7. I wonder if McCain got the memo that he and his party got their asses handed to them. n/t

[brianna69]

8. Scew the repugs

Their horrendous policies is what got us into this mess into the first place. Obama doesn't take orders from these fools. They need to get with the program or get the hell out of the way. They no longer run things. They seem to forget we just had an election where we voted those fools out.

[and-justice-for-all]

9. Obama has met with those drones 3 times over this...

McCant, your a fucking moron.

PS: We don't need repukes.

[janx]

10. What is he talking about? Isn't the Senate supposed

to take the matter up today?

[SuperTrouper]

12. McCain just wants to stay "relevant"

[janx]

22. He should stay relevant by sticking to his job and getting

to work with the other senators. ;-) Get to work, John!

[bunnies]

11. Does he have dementia or what?

His alternate reality is starting to scare me.

[bdamomma]

13. start from scratch?? isn't that the repig way of obstructing while

the American people are suffering. what jerks they never stop.

[Bobbie Jo]

14. Or....what...????

:shrug:

[Thrill]

16. Republicans continue to be better than Democrats at framing the debate

Always have been.

[WinkyDink]

17. "I won."

[Every Man A King]

18. It started before that

it started with the US voluntarily destroying its manufacturing base thru "free trade", then the money had no where to flow except real estate.

[ecstatic]

20. McWho?

:shrug: Oh.... the old guy who doesn't know anything about the economy?

[book_worm]

21. Who do you think you are to dictate to the president? Just four months ago you said

that the fundamentals of the economy were fine. Obama is reaching out to the GOP, but he's not going to give them the farm.

[Phx_Dem]

23. Fuck you old man. You lost and you're an obstructionist. Nuff said.