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Senile old coot and consumate asshat John McCain critizes President Obama’s handling of the economy. He has been whining about the lack of bipartisan effort on the part of the Obama administration to resolve the financial crisis the country now faces. He believes that Obama is on the wrong path and should listen more closely to the side of the aisle that got us into this mess. 

“It was a bad beginning,” McCain said Sunday of the legislative process that resulted in the $787 billion stimulus bill recently passed by Congress. “It was a bad beginning because it wasn’t what we promised the American people, what President Obama promised the American people – that we would sit down together.”

While McCain said he appreciated the fact that Obama came to Capitol Hill to speak with House Republicans about the stimulus bill. But, “that’s not how you negotiate a result.” Instead, “you sit down in a room with competing proposals” and “almost all of our proposals went down on a party-line vote”

“I hope the next time we will sit down together and conduct truly bipartisan negotiations. This was not a bipartisan bill.” (Source: CNN)

What he is really trying to say is that even though the Republicans suffered a crushing defeat in the last election, even though the American public resoundingly said no more of this Neocon nonsense, that the Obama administration should just bend over and take it in the rear again. He is making it clear that even though the new administration is doing everything it can to appease the far right, that they will never agree with anything the Democrats propose. They are the world’s sorest losers. The keyword being losers. For eight years the American people and the rest of the world’s citizens endured the arrogance and ignorance of the Bush administration. They voted for change, not more of the same crap. Endless war, soaring deficits and eroding rights.

“You sit down in a room with competing proposals,” McCain says. No, John, you sit down in a room with competing proposals. That room is called Congress. The President simply makes the proposals and you are supposed to debate them in the House and Senate. Remember, Obama is not a Senator anymore, he is the President. And about those promises he made to the American people. He promised change. He is changing the Executive Branch, it us up to the Legislative Branch to either get on board or face defeat in the next election. 

And all that talk of bipartisanship. It is obvious the Republicans are not interested in bipartisanship. Obama should just say, okay, we tried. He should borrow a page from the Bush administration and totally ignore the other side of the aisle. Get down to business and pass the legislation necessary to clean up the mess he inheirated. 

To borrow a quote from your beloved Bush, “Who cares what you think?”
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