crooksandliars.com - 2/9/2009
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Download | Play Download | Play Remember how a couple of weeks ago everyone was writing about how the vanquished John McCain was going to be Barack Obama's best Republican buddy in the Senate and help pave the way for a new era of senatorial bipartisanship? Well, et tu, ...
reuters.com - 2/13/2009
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator John McCain said on
Friday that President Barack Obama should include Republicans in...
his plans sooner if he really wants their support after the bitter debate over the $787 billion economic stimulus bill. McCain, who ...
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McCain says Obama needs to work on ...
crooksandliars.com - 2/10/2009
obsidianwings.blogs.com - 2/5/2009
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by hilzoy From the NYT : " Without
a single Republican vote, President Obama won House approval...
on Wednesday for an $819 billion economic recovery plan as Congressional Democrats sought to temper their own differences over the ...
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Bipartisanship And The Stimulus
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John Amato: Just imagine: What if McCain Had Won the Election and Obama had Shafted him During the Stimulus Debate?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Senator McCain, you look like you're acting almost childish in your opposition. Don't you think it hurts your Mavericky reputation to carry on like you have? And what does it say about the Republican party as well?"
Instead, he tries to reason with McCain, when that's not the political strategy the GOP is taking. McCain, like most of the Republican Party, is being led by Rush Limbaugh now. So sad indeed.
To see video of John McCain on Face the Nation being against the stimulus plan on Sunday, click here.
And as Daivd Neiwert ...
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