Mario and Joe on the politics of the bailout

McCain Playing Politics

By Mario Giardiello

Let me get this straight: McCain voted for the $700 billion bailout bill, and now is calling on President Bush to veto it. “He was for it before he was against it” is an expression that I have come to detest; but never has it been used before with a politician that has changed his mind within 24 hours without any new facts. And when pressed on MSNBC why he voted for it, he was as incoherent as Palin talking to Katie Couric about Supreme Court decisions or the bail out bill itself.

If McCain once represented the maverick style politics that is needed to shake up D.C., he has succumbed to Rove-like politics. The Bushies have over-prepared McCain and Palin so much they are confused by their own thoughts and they fail to make any sense. Between McCain’s fake smile and blinking eyes he looks like a ventriloquist’s dummy. And he ain’t much smarter, ya’ll.

Talk About Playing Politics

By Joe Giardiello

Once again Liberals like Mario are trying to have their tortillas and eat them, too. If McCain voted against the bailout they would have criticized him for voting against “saving the economy,” whatever that means. But since he voted for it despite opposing the pork barrel earmarks, they criticize him for not sticking to principles.

Then they make the absurd claim that McCain called on Bush to veto the bill. Huh? Maybe they should read what McCain actually said, not what they wanted to hear.

SCARBOROUGH: Why did these [pork barrel] items have to be in this critical bill?

MCCAIN: Well that’s just the way the system is working in Washington and the reason why it’s got to be fixed, and it’s got to be changed. And no matter what the stakes are, you’ve got to stop this by starting to veto bills that come across the president’s desk. … It’s insanity and it’s obscenity, because it’s a waste of taxpayers’ dollars and it goes on, and until we stop it, until we get frankly a president who will say, I’m gonna veto these bills, I’m gonna make the people famous that put them on there, uh, famous.

If liberals had the reading comprehension above the level of comic books, they would see the point was the system (that Barack Obama supports) is broken. He says he is going to veto bills when he is president.

Do liberals really think McCain was calling on Bush to veto the bill? Or are they just playing politics?