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Obsidian Wings —
... that John McCain will not be voting for the stimulus in its current form. McCain would prefer more business tax cuts and to make the Bush tax cuts permanent instead. In short, McCain prefers a bold “Leave No Rich Person Behind” response to our economic crisis. ...
Andrew Belonsky: Rush, Right Misguided on "Nationalization"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Limbaugh's not the only one saying such things. John McCain, who himself used such rhetoric during the election, raised the specter on Fox News Sunday when he surreptitiously used Japan's '90s-era economic rewrite, which included nationalization of the banks, as an example of why the Democrat's plan won't work. ...
REPORT: GOP Lawmakers Outnumber Democratic Lawmakers 2 To 1 In Stimulus Debate On Cable News
Think Progress —
... (R-OH) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) both announcing that they would vote against the plan as it stood. Despite Obama’s efforts at ...
Sheri and Allan Rivlin: Who Doesn't Like Barack Obama? -- Part 1
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The Republicans are pushing a much weaker argument when they diminish the investment side of the stimulus plan and call for greater tax cuts than they have already received. Once again, the real challenge for Republicans is to find an economic proposal that was not in George W. Bush's failed playbook. When Senator McCain reiterated his call to make George Bush's tax cuts permanent, last weekend, it was as much of a dead letter then as it was when he campaigned for it last October. ...
McCain Opposes Recovery Package Because It Has ‘Corporate Giveaways’ That He Once Campaigned For
Think Progress —
... McCAIN: We need to make tax cuts permanent, and we need to make a commitment that there’ll be no new taxes. We need to cut payroll taxes. We need to cut business taxes. [FNS, 1/25] ...
If It's Sunday, It's John McCain
Political Animal —
... and I would guess that most of them have come in the years since announcing for President in 1999, since before that he was a more obscure figure in Washington. I can't imagine there's anyone else even close to that number. And yet McCain is an easy guy to find on the Rolodex and get to appear on your show. It points to a staleness in the official discourse. And while this was McCain's inaugural appearance on Meet The Press this year, he has done Face the Nation in 2009, Fox News Sunday on two occasions , and sat down with John King of CNN as well, ...
