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31
- Scott Miller
This whole “Straight Talk Express” thing is so cheesy, and such a farce it’s laughable. Many of us conservatives have been calling McCain on his dishonest revisions of his record for the past couple months. The socialist media has pretty much ignored his playing fast and loose with the facts… until today. This from the AP:
McCain changes story on tax cut stance
WASHINGTON – Republican John McCain says he opposed President Bush’s tax cuts because they didn’t come with spending cuts. That is not what he said at the time.
In a presidential debate on Wednesday, McCain said he voted against the Bush tax cuts because he wanted to rein in spending.
“I disagreed when we had tax cuts without spending restraint,” the Arizona senator said. The explanation fits with his history of railing against wasteful federal spending.
But it does not fit with McCain’s comments when he opposed the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. In 2001, McCain said the tax cuts favored the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. In 2003, he said there should be no tax cuts until the Iraq war costs were known.
THE FACTS:
Spending was not why McCain said he opposed President Bush’s tax cuts in 2001 and 2003.
In 2001, McCain said the $1.35 trillion tax cut benefited the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. “I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who most need tax relief,” McCain said then.
McCain tried but failed to amend the bill to reduce income tax cuts for the wealthiest and give greater benefits to those earning less. He and Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island were the only Republicans to oppose the 2001 tax cuts.
At the time, McCain was still at odds with Bush, who had dealt McCain a stinging defeat in the race for the GOP presidential nomination just one year before.
In 2003, McCain opposed a $350 billion tax cut sought by Bush, this time arguing there should be no tax relief while the cost of the Iraq war and its aftermath were still unknown. “The tax cut is not appropriate until we find out the cost of the war and the cost of reconstruction,” McCain said then.
The timing of this piece is curious. It comes today, after McCain seemingly has the momentum in the Republican race. These facts have been available to the media for months now. I’ve been screaming about his dishonesty on his previous position for a long time. Mark Levin has been leading the effort on the radio and on NRO detailing the massive problems with McCain’s liberal record.
Our socialist media has been pumping up the most liberal Republican (John McCain) for months now. They want to ensure he is nominated, so he then gets beat in the general election because he’s alienated a large segment of the party’s base, and his liberal positions won’t win him any favors with the libs in the Democrat party either… and that’s why they waited until now to write this story.
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Isn’t the cost of the Iraq war a “spending” issue?
How is criticizing the composition of the 2001 tax cut (which in dollar value did go mostly to the high income earners who pay the most taxes) remotely inconsistent with criticizing tax cuts that are wholly detached from spending restraint.
How can the AP know everything McCain said during the tax cut debates? Was his every word transcribed? (even his private discussions with other senators). Is there solid proof that McCain never raised the excessive spending issue in 2001?
This sort of silly attack discredits the conservative movement. There’s plenty of things to criticize McCain about without manufacturing stuff like this.
Of course, as many flip-flops as Romney has, those Eastern elite “conservatives” in the bag for Mitt (Levin, Rush etc.) certainly don’t want anyone to focus on his record.
Speed,
Your a moron. You know nothing about the conservative movement. You come on this site pretending to be a Smuckabee supporter, and now your using the same class warfare rhetoric that McCain and the lib Democrats do?
The facts are there plain to see. McCain the lib is lying when he said he opposed the tax cuts for spending reasons. He’s on the record as opposing them because of class warfare reasons, not spending. Now he’s lying about his records, AND saying that the very same tax cuts should now be made permanent. Why make them permanent now? Don’t they still favor the rich? Isn’t spending still a moral issue?
Who exactly are you supporting in this race? Could there be a lib alliance going on here? McCain the lib, and Smuckabee the lib in 2008, right?