返回首页
当前位置: 主页 > 新闻资讯 >

Why is John McCain being such a jerk?(2)

时间:2012-07-22 05:46来源: 作者:admin 点击:
But even if McCain is just swinging away at runaway federal spending a foe of his long before he ever heard the name Barack Obama he may not be doing himself many favors in the process. For one thing
  

But even if McCain is just swinging away at runaway federal spending — a foe of his long before he ever heard the name “Barack Obama” — he may not be doing himself many favors in the process. For one thing, much of the money McCain has attacked in the spending bill would fund scientific research. The names of the individual projects may be easily lampooned, but as Bobby Jindal discovered last week, just because something sounds silly doesn’t mean it’s smart to bash it. For another, Republicans — who, unlike Obama, actually still have the power to put earmarks into legislation — are certainly taking their share of pork in the spending bill. McCain acknowledged that, but still bashed the White House for not taking a harder line on spending.

At a deeper level, though, in light of the massive problems the government is trying to deal with, it’s hard for anyone except McCain to get that worked up over the earmark battle. He and Obama covered all this ground during the campaign last year; during the presidential debates, voters could be forgiven for thinking McCain’s entire economic plan boiled down to eliminating earmarks. Voters evidently weren’t sufficiently moved by McCain’s anti-earmark outrage to put him in office. “There’s a reason he’s not president — this stuff is just tiresome, and it’s not what people care about these days,” said a Democratic operative who worked on the campaign last fall. Could you argue that, as McCain says, there’s something ridiculous about spending $380,000 on a “recreation and fairground area” in Kotzebue, Alaska? Sure — though McCain might know someone in Alaska who would disagree. But after eight years of the policies McCain mostly promised to continue if he won the election, eliminating the millions — or even billions — of dollars that get sprinkled around on lawmakers’ pet projects isn’t going to fix much.

Continue Reading Close


【免费咨询报名电话:010-6801 7975】

咨询报名MSN:xueliedu@hotmail.com
试一试网上报名
咨询报名QQ:
中专升大专 中专升本科 高升专 高升本 专升本 自考在线老师
1505847972 1256358232 1363884583 1902839745 800072298 754854002
中专升大专 中专升本科 高升专 高升本 专升本 自考

数据统计中!!
顶一下
(0)
0%
踩一下
(0)
0%
------分隔线----------------------------
报名咨询方式
免费咨询报名热线:010-5128 0865
咨询报名QQ:172656761
咨询报名MSN:xueliedu@hotmail.com
免费咨询专升本 自考本科自考专科自考专升本 出国留学 昌平校区在线咨询:自考本科,自考学历国家承认! msn在线咨询
推荐内容
专升本,高升本,自考,成考