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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:45 PM
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McCain: Federal spending out of control
Edited on Fri Jan-18-08 05:45 PM by Sparkly
McCain: Federal spending out of control

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"As a Republican, I stand before you embarrassed. Embarrassed that we let that spending get out of control, and it led to corruption. Now we have former members of Congress residing in prison," McCain told a town-hall style meeting at the Carolina Hospital East Campus in Florence. "If I'm president, it's going to stop."

"I'm not too astonished," by the bleak news, McCain added. "We let spending get totally out of control, and it continues today, and I'm sorry to tell you this."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_on_el_pr/republicans_economy


This is the same man who wants to send MORE troops to Iraq.

All Republicans should be embarrassed -- no, mortified and repentant -- for a lot of reasons.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:49 PM
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1. How's that 9 billion a month for a hundred or so years of Iraq--any way
we could start with getting THAT under control, Sparky?
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DesertFlower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 06:02 PM
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7. that was my first thought too. nt
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:50 PM
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2. And keep them there for 100 years
What comes after a trillion anyway? Kajillion, brazillion,?
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dempartisan23 Donating Member (687 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:52 PM
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3. wasnt mccain caught in a scandal?
keating 5? i hope that nutcase is the repub nominee. he will be easy pickings.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:54 PM
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4. He is also fighting to keep the NYT from printing a damaging story
about special favors for a female lobbyist--hope they drop that bomb AFTER he's nominated, myself.
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dempartisan23 Donating Member (687 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:55 PM
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5. me too
i pray they are stupid enough to nominate mcain. he should be in prison.
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beberocks Donating Member (219 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 06:00 PM
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6. I think he should be in a mental ward.
He's nuttier than a fruitcake and going senile IMO. Of course, the rest of the GOPers don't exactly have all their marbles either....so McCain still has a good chance at being the GE candidate.
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DesertFlower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 06:03 PM
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8. that is quite a crew they have running.
this is the best they can do?
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dempartisan23 Donating Member (687 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 06:21 PM
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9. lol
we have nothing to worry about. hehe
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DesertFlower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 06:27 PM
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10. i wouldn't be too sure.
i never underestimate the power and dirty tricks of the republicans. i'm "cautiously optimistic".
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 06:44 PM
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11. That would be his no shit sherlock moment..
Mr. "keep them there 100 years"...:eyes:
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 06:45 PM
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12. I'm sure he's talking about cutting, ya know, frills...
Like food stamps and public education, stuff like that.
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 06:47 PM
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13. No pork for starving babies!...n/t
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