Thread: McCain's Call for Fiscal Sanity

Yup, but this numbnut wants to ADD 100 MILLION ILLEGALS TO THE ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS via the Senate Immigration Bill! Does he think we're so braindead that we won't notice his hypocracy & lies?

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McCain's Call for Fiscal Sanity

Attempting to further bolster his conservative credentials, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) today railed against entitlement spending and sought to link economic security with national security during a speech to the Economic Club of New York.
Sen. John McCain
Can Sen. McCain win over deficit hawks and fiscal conservatives? (AP File Photo)

"A tsunami of entitlement spending is threatening our economy while providing no real security for retirees," McCain said. "We have made promises that we cannot keep." (Read the text of McCain's speech.)

Huge federal budget deficits are threatening the economic future for younger Americans and destabilizing the country on the international stage, according to McCain. "No security strategy can succeed without a firm economic foundation," he said. "Just as we must anticipate and confront outside threats using all instruments of our national power, we must face the very real threats emanating from home that endanger our prosperity."

McCain cast his call for a renewal of fiscal conservatism through the historical lens of former president Ronald Reagan, whom he repeatedly singled out for praise in today's address. He lauded Reagan for "rededicat[ing] our national energies to the principles of personal, political and economic freedom" -- tenets, McCain said, that have largely been lost in today's politics.

The Arizona senator also offered a bit of veiled criticism for the current president, saying: "Legislators pass pork-filled bills without fear of public retribution or presidential veto."

President Bush has not vetoed a single bill passed by the Congress since coming into office in 2000. By contrast, McCain pointed out in his remarks that in the past few years he has "opposed some Republican fiscal initiatives out of concern for the absence of spending restraint."

Much has been made of McCain's courting of social conservatives (most notably his speech last month at Liberty University), but little has been written to date of his outreach to the fiscal hawks within the party -- with whom he has had a somewhat testy relationship.

In 2004, Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) -- one of the most outspoken fiscal conservatives in the House -- weighed a primary challenge to McCain with strong encouragement from the D.C.-based Club for Growth, a group of anti-regulatory, pro-free market individuals whose members were angered by McCain's opposition to the Bush tax cuts and his support for campaign finance reform.

Flake eventually decided against a run, citing McCain's popularity in Arizona. McCain endorsed Flake for reelection this fall, a move that has no practical significance since the congressman sits in a safe Republican district, but is certainly a nod to the fiscal hawks in the Republican Party. Along those lines, McCain this year supported legislation to extend capital gains and dividend tax cuts. (In his speech today, McCain said: "I have always believed in the power of the American people, and the importance of keeping marginal tax rates low. But tax cuts work best when accompanied by lower spending.")

It remains to be seen whether McCain can win over fiscal conservatives before 2008. But it is clear that he is making inroads with segments of the GOP coalition that supported Bush over him in the 2000 primaries.

The latest evidence came late last week when McCain won a straw poll in Ottawa County, Mich. McCain took 59 percent of the vote to 22 percent for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.), five percent for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, four percent for Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo (a leading supporter of tougher immigration laws) and three percent for Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (whose father served as governor of Michigan). McCain allies note that Ottawa County encompasses much of the state's 2nd congressional district, one of the two the Arizona senator lost to Bush in the 2000 Michigan primary.
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Sounds like a jackass chasing his tail. He is indicative of the clueless double speak waste of tax payer dollars that is prevalent in DC. When he speaks of Americans he is referring to his illegal alien Latino brothers and sisters as with the jackass administration he doesnt give a rat's posterior about us. McCain and Vicente Bushero have shown nothing but complete and utter contempt for LEGAL American citizens. His approach to fiscal sanity would be to cut off all benefits and services to American citizens and redistribute them to illegal aliens. He is an absolute traitor and a disgrace to this country and I truly hope for the sake of our nation this horse's ass Benedict Arnold NEVER sets foot inside the Oval Office

His approach to fiscal sanity would be to cut off all benefits and services to American citizens and redistribute them to illegal aliens.

Hence why we spend more money on illegals then we do our own military vets.