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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2008 / Next Talking Point, McSame

Next Talking Point, McSame

by John Cole|  August 13, 20089:35 am| 18 Comments

This post is in: Election 2008, Republican Stupidity

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Friedman tells McCain to suck on this:

John McCain recently tried to underscore his seriousness about pushing through a new energy policy, with a strong focus on more drilling for oil, by telling a motorcycle convention that Congress needed to come back from vacation immediately and do something about America’s energy crisis. “Tell them to come back and get to work!” McCain bellowed.

Sorry, but I can’t let that one go by. McCain knows why.

It was only five days earlier, on July 30, that the Senate was voting for the eighth time in the past year on a broad, vitally important bill — S. 3335 — that would have extended the investment tax credits for installing solar energy and the production tax credits for building wind turbines and other energy-efficiency systems.

Both the wind and solar industries depend on these credits — which expire in December — to scale their businesses and become competitive with coal, oil and natural gas. Unlike offshore drilling, these credits could have an immediate impact on America’s energy profile.

Senator McCain did not show up for the crucial vote on July 30, and the renewable energy bill was defeated for the eighth time. In fact, John McCain has a perfect record on this renewable energy legislation. He has missed all eight votes over the last year — which effectively counts as a no vote each time. Once, he was even in the Senate and wouldn’t leave his office to vote.

Well, he was busy chanting “DRILL! DRILL! DRILL!” while Cindy was dancing in the Miss Buffalo Chip, so he does have an excuse.

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  1. 1.

    zzyzx

    August 13, 2008 at 9:43 am

    You’re missing the big story. The RNC is keeping tabs on Obama and they just sent out a bulletin! OBAMA SAW THE DARK KNIGHT!!!! How can we elect a man who saw the same movie that everyone else saw?

    Sheesh.

  2. 2.

    Nikki

    August 13, 2008 at 9:44 am

    How quickly do you think the Obama camp will take to turn this into an ad?

  3. 3.

    cleek

    August 13, 2008 at 9:50 am

    How quickly do you think the Obama camp will take to turn this into an ad?

    6 weeks?

  4. 4.

    4tehlulz

    August 13, 2008 at 10:06 am

    Maybe if there was an amendment allowing drilling on the sun, he would vote for it.

  5. 5.

    searp

    August 13, 2008 at 10:53 am

    Am I the only person to think McCain simply doesn’t get policy ? He doesn’t seem to care at all. Looks like his campaign amounts to “Vote for me, I am not Obama”.

    Good luck with that.

  6. 6.

    Zifnab

    August 13, 2008 at 10:59 am

    Is repeating the mantra “November can’t come soon enough” getting monotonous yet?

  7. 7.

    the Rising Jurist

    August 13, 2008 at 11:20 am

    Obama also abstained from that vote.

  8. 8.

    Jake

    August 13, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Looks like his campaign amounts to “Vote for me, I am not Obama”.

    This absolutely is their campaign strategy. Making the election a referendum on Obama (as opposed to Bush) is their only hope.

  9. 9.

    Davis X. Machina

    August 13, 2008 at 11:30 am

    Am I the only person to think McCain simply doesn’t get policy ?

    Policy is about how to govern. McCain, and the GOP generally, is about how to rule.

    Policy is irrelevant — the trick is to seize control of the state, and use its coercive powers to make yourself, your friends and relations rich, and to use its punitive power to punish those who aren’t yourself, your friends and relations, just because you can, and because they’re not yourself, your friends and relations.

    In other words, party like it’s 1099.

    If you’re going to drag us back into the Middle Ages, couldn’t we please have the High Middle Ages?

  10. 10.

    jake

    August 13, 2008 at 11:30 am

    Wait. You mean the McCane ad with the wind mills and the sun coming up where he claims to be for (or just be) smart renewable energy isn’t true?

    Shocking.

    Looks like his campaign amounts to “Vote for me, I am not Obama an African-American who wants to sex your hot chicks”.

    Fixxle.

  11. 11.

    p.a.

    August 13, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    Sorry, but I can’t let that one go by. McCain knows why.

    Why Tom? How much do you let go by? What is your bullshit outrage threshold? What determines the level?

  12. 12.

    grandpajohn

    August 13, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    In fact, John McCain has a perfect record on this renewable energy legislation. He has missed all eight votes over the last year — which effectively counts as a no vote each time. Once, he was even in the Senate and wouldn’t leave his office to vote.

    Let me guess, he did NOT learn this information by listening to or reading the MSM

  13. 13.

    Ricky

    August 13, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    Is that THE Friedman? Inventor of THE FRIEDMAN UNIT?”
    Did it ake him six months to come up with that column?

    By the way, Jake, any good Southerner can tell you that we don’t spread the notion of the dark people wanting to have sex with our white wimmen folk because it’s true. We do it out of respect for our wimmen folk. We don’t want them to know that we know its them that’s wantin to have sex with
    the dark fellers. Hell, men of any color will have sex with anything, feathers and wool be damned.

  14. 14.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    August 13, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    The RNC is keeping tabs on Obama and they just sent out a bulletin! OBAMA SAW THE DARK KNIGHT !

    New GOP slogan:

    It is a dangerous world out there – how are the Democrats going to protect you if they don’t know how to act like creepy stalkers.

    Vote for the Big Brother is watching you Creepy Stalker party for a safer world!

  15. 15.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    August 13, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    On second thought, maybe following Obama around and announcing what movies he likes to watch is part of a well thought out strategy.
    Sort of like in Scene 21 from Monty Python & The Holy Grail, just after the Knights of the Round Table have been mauled by the Vorpal Rabbit:

    ARTHUR:
    Right. How many did we lose?
    LAUNCELOT:
    Gawain.
    GALAHAD:
    Ector.
    ARTHUR:
    And Bors. That’s five.
    GALAHAD:
    Three, sir.
    ARTHUR:
    Three. Three. And we’d better not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit’s dynamite.
    ROBIN:
    Would it help to confuse it if we run away more?
    ARTHUR:
    Oh, shut up and go and change your armour.
    GALAHAD:
    Let us taunt it! It may become so cross that it will make a mistake.
    ARTHUR:
    Like what?
    GALAHAD:
    Well… ooh.

    And if that doesn’t work GOP, here’s the next suggestion for a campaign strategy: go after Obama’s daughters.

    America really likes bullies who pick on little girls. That will win you a ton of votes.

  16. 16.

    Ed Marshall

    August 13, 2008 at 9:01 pm

    I can think of a bunch of reasons why, but I got a bad feeling today. CW coming out of a bunch of peoples mouths is that John McCain is going to walk away with the election. They say all the undecided are gonna break for McCain.

    I’ve heard different reasons for why and I don’t feel like unpacking any of them or even addressing them yet, but it’s bad news in itself that this message is going anywhere for any reason. The very definition of an independent is someone who does what CW says to do.

  17. 17.

    jbarntt

    August 14, 2008 at 1:03 am

    Well, he was busy chanting “DRILL! DRILL! DRILL!” while Cindy was dancing in the Miss Buffalo Chip, so he does have an excuse.

    Uh, senators running for president are often absent from the senate, like say Obama. This is trivial. By the way if you have any evidence that Cindy McCain was dancing in the contest, please post it.

    I appreciate that you used to be a Republican and are now a Democrat, but is it really necessary to post such inane things ?

  18. 18.

    grandpajohn

    August 14, 2008 at 7:07 am

    list of the number of missed votes for each quarter of this year. Interesting results.

    Q1 2008 85 votes took place in the Senate

    McCain missed 50 (58.8%)
    Obama missed 31 (36.5%)

    Q2 2008 77 votes took place in the Senate

    McCain missed 76 (98.7%) (only showed up once!)
    Obama missed 65 (84.4%)

    Q3 2008 20 votes have taken place so far

    McCain missed 20 (100.0%)
    Obama missed 14 (70%)

    Truthfully, neither candidate is showing up much (to be expected when running for president) but I was extremely suprised to find out that McCain has only showed up to vote ONCE in the past FOUR MONTHS!!!

    most people that only showed up for work 1 day in the last 4 months while trying to get a new job ,would undoubtly be out of work by now as their employer would no doubt find it more than trivial

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