Who’s your daddy, John?

[CatWoman]

John McCain says George Bush has been a disaster.

“Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously,” Mr. McCain said in an interview with The Washington Times aboard his campaign plane en route from New Hampshire to Ohio.

“Those are just some of them,” he said with a laugh, chomping into a peanut butter sandwich as a few campaign aides in his midair office joined in the laughter….

In addition to the long list of failures he attributed to Mr. Bush, Mr. McCain blamed the president for supporting the Medicare prescription-drug bill, saying, “They didn’t pay for it.”

“They put a trillion-dollar debt on future generations of Americans, then allowed the liberals to expand it so they’re paying my — they’re paying for my prescription drugs. Why should the taxpayers pay for my prescription drugs?” he said with exasperation.

He rejected Mr. Bush’s use of issuing “signing statements” when he signs bills into law, in which the president has suggested that he would ignore elements of the bills, labeling them potentially unconstitutional….

The Republican also targeted his own party, saying they got drunk with power ….

“I think, frankly, the problem was, with a Republican Congress, that the president was told by the speaker and majority leaders and others, ‘Don’t veto these bills, we need this pork, we need this excess spending, we need to grow these bureaucracies.’ They all sponsor certain ones. And he didn’t do what Ronald Reagan used to and say, ‘No’; say, ‘No. We’re not going to do this.’”

OK, but where were you when it counted, John? Some of us have been pointing this out for years, years in which we were attacked as unAmerican and unpatriotic, as people so blinded by Bush hate that we could not see how wonderful and wise ol’ George really was as a leader. Years in which you and your colleagues continued to give Bush free rein to drive this country into the ground. On the rare occasion on which you challenged him, such as on signing statements, you quickly backed down out of obedience and political calculation.

But now you join the parade? Three months from the end of this eight-year reign of error? Thanks a heap, John. Country First.

http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/bookman/index.html

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

1. Mr. "Proud to be 90 percent Bush" is like a rudderless sailboat...

Especially in the past few years, his positions have changed with the winds, and there is little evidence of continuity. Now he's grasping for that "other 10 percent," hoping that most people will overlook the truth.

Not to mention, of course, that his campaign would take the high road and not resort to negative campaigning. Funny how that worked out. Truly pathetic...utterly dishonorable little boat without a rudder.