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Bush to McCain: ‘Four More Years!’ |
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| Strike up the violins: Bush and McCain in an earlier get-together. |
It got pretty cozy in the White House Rose Garden today when Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain sidled up to George W. Bush to pick up his endorsement.
McCain’s pilgrimage is a reminder that when it comes to backing Bush and his failed policies, McCain is no “maverick.”
Bush was so effusive in today’s press event he barely let McCain speak—making it clear that he expects McCain to be a successor in his own image. Bush can’t run for a third term and wouldn’t win if he did—with approval ratings at or below 30 percent for months—but with McCain as the Republican nominee, he’s got the next best thing.
Here’s how close the two are: McCain has voted in support of Bush’s positions 89 percent of the time—a lifetime voting record that in 2007, rose to a striking 95 percent, according to Congressional Quarterly.
This week, McCain expressed his support for Bush-style Social Security privatization. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, McCain reminded us he went on the trail with Bush to campaign for privatization.
When Bush vetoed a bill that would have renewed and improved the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), McCain told CNN it was the “right call.”
Both Bush and McCain are blind to the truth about the economy. They both seem to think the economy is doing well and that it’s inherently strong. (Of course, that requires them to ignore the job market, wages and the housing market.)
After the Rose Garden event today, McCain might recycle an old, but apt, slogan for his campaign: “Four More Years!”
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so after reading that scary article, and to avoid “4 more years” of disaster to our country, it is important to get ouot the vote in November!
With a Democrat in the WH, it is then the time to demand that voting machines produce a receipt. Legislators failed to move and act and probably won’t get acted on before November.
Good riddance Herr bush, and for you McCain, go back to Panama!
Truth in advertising: his name should be John McClone, Bush’s “clone” and compatriot, hoping we’re too stupid to realize that McClone as president would be four more years of the sell-out to corporate America and foreign countries.