Prior to stupid bills like McCain/Feingold and his ability to put forth “collegiality” and “compromise” before “principle” (by the way- just an observation, the Dems don’t seem to be returning the favors, do they?), I believed in Senator John McCain. When he puts his limited government hat on, I love the guy. We need someone to take the government pork pilers and “make them famous”. This is the Senator John McCain I love (there’s just not been enough of him this year when we’ve needed him), and who I believe a lot of us thought (I’m skeptical now) we would’ve gotten in 2000 (link):
Senate Republicans are united in their opposition to pending health care reform legislation, and criticisms lately have turned to how Democrats were able to get all 60 members of their caucus to agree to back the bill.
Republican Sen. John McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, said in an interview with ABC News this morning that the “unsavory process” to get 60 votes – which included, he said, giveaways such as the “Cornhusker kickback,” the “Louisiana purchase,” the “Florida flim-flam” and “all of the other kinds of dealing that went on” – will be seen as “very distasteful” by the American people.
He went on to call the bill “one of the great Bernie Madoff gimmicks that I’ve ever seen, that anybody’s ever seen.”
“If the bill were signed by the president on the first of January, the taxes would kick in, and the Medicare cuts and other cuts would kick in, and it wouldn’t be [until] four years later that any of the benefits begin to accrue,” he said. “What is that? That’s nutty stuff. It’s unacceptable.”
Agreed. We still want you to “Make them famous,” sir.