McCain on Dems & health care: "It's one of a great Bernie Madoff gimmicks that anybody's ever seen"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

VIDEO @ the URL below.

McCain compares Democrats to Bernie Madoff

By Sahil Kapur
Monday, December 21st, 2009 -- 10:13 am



WASHINGTON -- Tempers are flying high over the successful health care cloture motion, and one reputably hot-headed Senator on Monday accused Democrats of engaging in a Bernie Madoff-like Ponzi scheme to rip off the American people.

"It's one of a great Bernie Madoff gimmicks that anybody's ever seen," McCain said on ABC's Good Morning America. "Republicans were never brought in to the negotiations. This is what you get — a split country — when American people are opposed to what we're doing."

McCain, who was visibly angry late Sunday night on the Senate floor, said several times that the negotiations were one-sided. His colleagues agreed, but none of his them appear to have taken the accusation so far as to compare Democrats to the greatest financial swindler of all time.

The 2008 Republican nominee for president made the same comparison on Fox News Sunday, telling host Chris Wallace that Democrats are engaging in "budget gimmickry, and we all know it."

"That assumes that the cuts in Medicare, which are to the tune of a half a trillion dollars, are going to take place," McCain said on Sunday. "That assumes that things like the doctors fix and others are taken care of, which they haven't been in the past. The fact is that this is -- and of course only Bernie Madoff would approve of this kind of budgeting.

http://rawstory.com/2009/12/mccain-compares-democrats-bernie-madoff/

[mdmc]

1. hehe

You will have your shot in 2010 - BRING IT ON!

[gratuitous]

2. And who would know better about crooked financial dealings?

This is just too precious: Republican whining about not being included in the process. I've seen more mature 4-year-olds, but apparently the Fourth Estate hasn't. Even a kid knows that if he sits in the corner and pouts and refuses to participate, he's going to have to take what he gets. John Sidney McCain III obviously never learned this lesson from his parents. Grow up, Senator.

[monmouth]

3. Well if this eejit is not happy, this bill must have its good points.. Excellent..n/t

[asdjrocky]

4. Fuck that rich old fuck.

[Bitwit1234]

5. Tsk Tsk Tsk if it is, bush, cheney and the former republican majority

in congress taught us how it is done.

[Matariki]

6. Hmmph. I recall Democrats being forced to hold hearings in a basement

because the Republicans blocked access any proper room.

Maybe McCain and the media giving him a soapbox to cry on needs to receive piles and piles of faxes with photos of that shameful debacle.

[blondeatlast]

7. Did Charles Keating hand-deliver that crappy talking point to you, senator Scandal? nt

[blondeatlast]

8. K for perspective. nt

[depakid]

9. The Democrats only saving grace these days is that Republicans are insane

[libertyvalence]

10. VAMPIRE NATION

VAMPIRE Q&A
Q. Who can really explain Vampires?
A. There are Vampire stories from old Europe. There are Vampire movies from the new world, There are Vampire books, Vampire series, people that dress like Vampires. That should help.
Q. How to explain this in a uniquely American way?
A. Well, there's Papa Bear, Mama Bear and Baby Bear and the Odd Couple, they are all on the Supreme Court. They dress like Vampires and they only come out at night so, they'll explain this because they think like Vampires.
Q. This is America, we can solve any problem with a little fantasy, right?
A. Yes. Not to worry. They are conservatives on the Court, so this is easy; take a realistic approach to idealism, everything will be clear that way.1.) Declare that blood is really money 2.) Declare that money is really speech and since speech is really votes, that should solve all of our problems by voting for what we want.
Q. America can't have any problems, right?
A. No, because money is the life blood of America so, we can solve all of our problems with money .
Q. What do we do about cynicism? How can you realistically have idealism
when nothing really lives up to the ideals of The Three Bears and the Odd Couple?
A. Realistically, you have to be cynical, that way, everything works in a uniquely
American way. Right wing Geniuses call that pragmatism.
Q. How do we feed American Vampires?
A. We'll have wars! We'll train people to kill, our Vampires will make money,
problem solved. In order to feed the American Vampires, there are six billion
people in the world to make war on that aren't Americans, so we just turn our Vampires loose on them. No American is going to miss foreigners. Say we kill 30 regular people to one of their Vampires, that seems fair.
Q. Not so fast. There are Vampires that live only off American blood, I mean
money. What about them?
A. Let them take care of sick people, sick people are going to die anyway,
Vampires won’t miss them. Say, our sick people die, that can generate a lot
of money, even after the end, even if they kill only one at a time.
Q. What about the really pure Vampires. The ones who need direct infusions of money and can’t wait to earn it dishonestly?
A. Let them run the banks, that way they can drink right from the spigot.
Q. What about sister Sarah. Isn’t she the purest of the pure?
A. She’s a comer but she doesn’t have critical mass yet and it’s not likely, she’s too pure.
Q. If a majority of people really don't want to do it that way anymore,
then the thing to do is to solve it the American way and elect someone else
to change the system. Right?
A. A majority of people is not a majority of votes. This is how democracy works, according to the Supreme Court.
Q. But if that elected person is convinced that Americans can't live
without cynicism, then can that person make cynical decisions without
consulting the people?
A. Yes, unless they have money.
Q. Can we go on forever this way?
A. Yes, but people who aren't Vampires and aren't cynics are going to spoil it.

[kenny blankenship]

11. Yeah, they'd make it better!

by making sure that not only do we get soaked to make insurance swindlers rich, we'd also get soaked to make televangelist snake handling, "faith healing" swindlers rich too.

They're doing "God's Work" just fine without you, John! So you can relax.

[RainDog]

12. oh shut up you stupid fuck. you're responsible for creating the Sarah Palin, trailer trash show

anything McCain ever did was negated in that moment. he has unleashed this trash talking skank on the American public. go home, McCain. you've done enough damage.

[blondeatlast]

13. This from the guy who took Charles Keating's private plane to

vote on regulating the savings and loan corporations...

[Octafish]

14. Funny, coming from a guy in bed with the Meyer Lansky of the Military Industrial Complex...

Know your BFEE: Phil Gramm, the Meyer Lansky of the War Party, Set-Up the Biggest Bank Heist Ever.

[blondeatlast]

15. Geez, I almost forgot Phil Gramm; a loathesome, vile sludge if ever there was one.

McCain is my Senator, and a bigger hypocrite these eyes have never seen. :puke:

[Octafish]

17. Remember when Grumpy brought up ''the Intervention in Dallas''?

The guy exposed himself for the treasonous, tyrannical scuz he is:

The "intervention" at Dallas?

Sorry to keep harping on this, blondeatlast, but you know me: I can't help myself.

Know your BFEE: Goldmine Sacked or The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One

Isn't it good not to be cursed with so much money that all one can do is worry about someone taking it through thievery, taxes or litigation? I'd add "legislation," but, as you know, my Friend, that crowd is bought -- lock, stock and barrel.

[Doctor_J]

16. Well, McSame, the Repukes had 12 years in Congress to do something

about health care. What happened?

[Hansel]

18. No, Saint Reagan pulled that off when he doubled the society security

payroll tax and then his successors from then on have had a party on the wind fall coming from that tax. The biggest pyramid scheme ever. And you John, voted yeah on nearly every spending spree that has ensued on the backs of the lowest paid Americans.