Appearing on Fox Sunday, Sen. John McCain explained that the Republican Party has to give voters a reason to support them.
"I really think that the that this election could be a seismic election but we've got to give Americans a reason to be for us, rather than be just against the Democrats and the president," McCain told Fox News' Chris Wallace.
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Being the "Party of No" just isn't good enough.
They also have to be against things! I know, let's call them the Party of Double Negatives!
- 8 votes
Carloz They also have to be against things
It is easy to figure out what they are against, its what ever the democrats are for. Their problem is their agenda is silent, and would seem to be rather radical, judging from the past comments of the republican legislation leaders, of both houses. They claim the first thing they are going to do is, undo everything done in the Obama term. Then they claim they will get a special prosecutor, and start the witch hunts, and the inquisition on Obama and the democrats, just like last time against Clinton. They get to be bullies again, and accuse and bullifie (my word), and make dirty all the democrats, so they can pull another GW Bush, and dirty the democrats, and squeek who ever as president in, against Obama,and get back in power and take over the world. Then throw this country into a hard right turn, so fast we will all get whip lash, and pay for it the next twenty years.
- 3 votes
Their problem is their agenda is silent,
Which is what McCain was basically admitting today.
It is easy to figure out what they are against, its what ever the democrats are for.
And what Obama is for. I love what Paul Krugman said the other day: "If he came out for motherhood, the G.O.P. would declare motherhood un-American."
- 5 votes
repeal and replace
I love how the GOP lies right to our faces.
If you are really going to replace it, then you write a law that supersedes it. No mention of 'repeal' necessary at all. The only reason to say 'repeal' is if you have nothing to 'replace' it with. That's just how legislation works.
- 3 votes
McCain and GOP hoping the OBAMA=MONKEY subliminal TV ads work, especially on their HELTER SKELTER channel fans, until they can come up with a platform.
Just think, about 125 Americans died from lack of access to health care the day McCain said this, and untold numbers lost their jobs and insurance, were denied coverage, went bankrupt from health care ripoff.
- 1 vote
McCain simply realizes something that the Democrats seem to have forgotten. They were elected, to their jobs, to do what the American people want to have done. The majority of the American People are opposed to the Health Care Law, so it should be repealed...it should never have been passed in the first place.
Party of Double Negatives!
Two negatives make positive arses
As this stalemate continues.. and the House has been passing bills left and right.. as they clog the Senate without any action on them.. Never mind the confirmations for personnel in the President's administration that are still not done.. Why not dissolve the Senate entirely.. it would eliminate this problem of things that are important to country from not being done.. and in this case.. Things need to be done.. instead of playing party politics with the lives of the citizens.. Which the Wingnuts are doing..?
- 5 votes
The majority of the American People are opposed to the Health Care Law, so it should be repealed
First, that's not true. Second, that's not how our government works. Maybe Republicans have forgotten that.
- 4 votes
The majority of the American People are opposed to the Health Care Law, so it should be repealed
The Majority of the Health care plan hasn't been implemented... That is what they are upset about.. but they must understand that insurance companies were given a certain time period to adjust .. draw up paperwork and plans to go along with it... otherwise we would hear the wingnuts/teabaggers crying to Holier than thou Becky.. their not giving us enough time to.
- 4 votes
First, that's not true.
It is ABSOLUTELY true. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/health_care_law
Second, that's not how our government works.
The way our system is SUPPOSED to work, elected officials only pass legislation that the American People WANT to see passed, not the act of deciding that they know what is good for the People, regardless of how the People feel about it. The Democrats seem to have forgotten that.
It may be difficult to repeal the law now, but not impossible. However, a Republican controlled Congress can easily see that no extra funds are diverted to help pay for the plan, and it will collapse under the prospect of becoming self-sustaining (as we were PROMISED that it would be). Socialistic Health Care will NOT happen, in America, because the American People DO NOT WANT it to happen.
It is ABSOLUTELY true.
NO, it isn't. An opinion survey is not proof. Even the survey you cite(without any accompanying methodology) shows that ONLY 45% strongly favor repeal. And that 45% is out of ONLY one thousand people, surveyed by TELEPHONE. No cell phones.
It may be evidence, but certainly not proof, and not a certainty.
The way our system is SUPPOSED to work, elected officials only pass legislation that the American People WANT to see passed, not the act of deciding that they know what is good for the People, regardless of how the People feel about it.
You have a serious misunderstanding of the way our government works. The majority of people have absolutely no understanding of how legislation works, let alone an ability to express a desire for or against 99% of laws that are necessary for society to function.
As an aside, that is another reason why term limits sound good, but ultimately are a bad idea. You end up with representatives as ignorant as their constituents.
- 4 votes
Obama health care is bad news for this country and should of never been pass, and I do not belong to the GOP. I hate both parties for neither one of them think and try to help this country, but people will use their name calling and putting blame on each other. If any American understand what his health care will do to this country and how much it will cost plus all the services you will lose wouldn't want it. He has already started taking thing away from medicare to help support it, to bad for the old retire people who help build up this country.
If any American understand what his health care will do to this country and how much it will cost plus all the services you will lose wouldn't want it. He has already started taking thing away from medicare to help support it,
What is being taken away, and what costs are there that the rest of us don't know about? What is being taken from Medicare?
- 3 votes
Interesting study on why people would vote against their own interests....
http://www.tgisfw.com/2008/09/why-do-working-class-people-vote.html
They have no platform --other than hate--They are FOR nothing except POWER!
They had more than 10 years if they actually wanted to get something done--no plan for anything except MORE WAR!
- 4 votes
http://www.tgisfw.com/2008/09/why-do-working-class-people-vote.html
Thanks for the link, Network-gal.
- 3 votes
Take a look at the gop platform from 2008 and they had NO policy for jobs or the economy.
NO issue stance on Budget and the economy....BUT from what one seeder posted, they don't beleive if you getting any sexual satisfaction solo. So much what some call the personal freedom party! :snicker:
- 5 votes
who needs a policy when you have your own Manson family TV channel and the finest political Tammy Faye and Jim Baker America has ever seen.
- 3 votes
There are plenty of reasons to support the GOP. Their problem is that those reasons appeal to only 2,000,000 Americans of voting age.
All the rest need to be manipulated and used. That's their problem, right there.
- 3 votes
All of this talk about the GOP planning to repeal this or repeal that is simply hyperbolic rhetoric intended to get a quick sound bite and fire up their right wing constituencies. It simply ain't gonna happen.
And the Republican Congressional leadership knows it.
- 2 votes
The GOP is the new revised version of Domestic Terrorists.
Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Pub. L. No. 107-52) expanded the definition of terrorism to cover ""domestic,"" as opposed to international, terrorism. A person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act ""dangerous to human life"" that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to: (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping. Additionally, the acts have to occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States and if they do not, may be regarded as international terrorism.
Hey GOP you didn't know it was written to include you did you? Bush rewrote it just for you!
- 3 votes
The GOP is the new revised version of Domestic Terrorists.
The single greatest threat that America has EVER faced, is the prospect of Capitalism being overthrown in favor of Socialism. Lefty liberal democrats are the true Domestic Terrorists here.
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