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McCain: GOP must be for something... like repealing health care law (video)

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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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Carloz

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
Reply#1 - Sun Sep 5, 2010 4:49 PM EDT
StevG-144

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
#1.1 - Sun Sep 5, 2010 6:09 PM EDT
Carloz

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
#1.2 - Sun Sep 5, 2010 6:19 PM EDT
James Andre

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
#1.3 - Sun Sep 5, 2010 7:27 PM EDT
Texasrodeoqueen

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
#1.4 - Sun Sep 5, 2010 8:25 PM EDT
Jeff Midwest

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.

    #1.5 - Sun Sep 5, 2010 10:52 PM EDT
    Par4TheCourse

    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
    #1.6 - Sun Sep 5, 2010 11:21 PM EDT
    James Andre

    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
    #1.7 - Sun Sep 5, 2010 11:53 PM EDT
    Par4TheCourse

    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
    #1.8 - Mon Sep 6, 2010 11:17 AM EDT
    Jeff Midwest

    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.

      #1.9 - Mon Sep 6, 2010 1:22 PM EDT
      James Andre

      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
      #1.10 - Mon Sep 6, 2010 3:09 PM EDT
      jdl-28

      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.

        #1.11 - Tue Sep 7, 2010 1:39 PM EDT
        James Andre

        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
        #1.12 - Tue Sep 7, 2010 4:19 PM EDT
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        network-gal

        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
        Reply#2 - Sun Sep 5, 2010 6:06 PM EDT
        Carloz

        http://www.tgisfw.com/2008/09/why-do-working-class-people-vote.html

        Thanks for the link, Network-gal.

        • 3 votes
        #2.1 - Sun Sep 5, 2010 6:08 PM EDT
        devilsadvocates

        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
        #2.2 - Sun Sep 5, 2010 6:26 PM EDT
        Texasrodeoqueen

        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
        #2.3 - Sun Sep 5, 2010 8:27 PM EDT
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        Better Careful

        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
        Reply#3 - Sun Sep 5, 2010 6:41 PM EDT
        ScienceGuy-356641

        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
        Reply#4 - Sun Sep 5, 2010 7:35 PM EDT
        A Sergeant's Mom

        Grampa McCain, please retire.

        • 1 vote
        Reply#5 - Sun Sep 5, 2010 7:59 PM EDT
        network-gal

        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
        Reply#6 - Mon Sep 6, 2010 4:45 PM EDT
        Jeff Midwest

        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.

          #6.1 - Tue Sep 7, 2010 11:01 AM EDT
          Par4TheCourse

          "Marriage is socialism among two people."

          • 1 vote
          #6.2 - Tue Sep 7, 2010 11:45 AM EDT
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