McCain is a Weenie

“Some of the richest people I’ve ever known in my life are the most unhappy. I think that rich is — should be defined by a home, a good job and education and the ability to hand to our children a more prosperous and safer world than the one that we inherited. I don’t want to take any money from the rich. I want everybody to get rich. I don’t believe in class warfare or redistribution of the wealth. But I can tell you for example there are small businessmen and women who are working 16 hours a day, seven days a week that some people would classify as, quote, ‘rich,’ my friends, who want to raise their taxes and raise their payroll taxes. Let’s have — keep taxes low. Let’s give every family in America a $7,000 tax credit for every child they have. Let’s give them a $5,000 refundable tax credit to go out and get the health insurance of their choice. Let’s not have the government take over the health care system in America.

“So I think if you’re just talking about income, how about $5 million. But seriously, I don’t think you can — I don’t think, seriously that — the point is that I’m trying to make here seriously — and I’m sure that comment will be distorted, but the point is — the point is — the point is that we want to keep people’s taxes low and increase revenues. And my friend, it was not taxes that mattered in America in the last several years. It was spending. Spending got completely out of control. We spent money in a way that mortgaged our kids futures. My friends, we spent $3 million of your money to study the DNA of bears in Montana. Now I don’t know if that was a paternity issue or a criminal issue, but the point is — but the point is it was $3 million of your money. It was your money.

“And you know, we laugh about it, but we cry and we should cry because the Congress is supposed to be careful stewards of your tax dollars. so what did they just do in the middle of an energy crisis when in California we are paying $4 a gallon for gas, went on vacation for five weeks. I guarantee you, two things they never miss, a pay raise and a vacation. And we should stop that and call them back and not raise your taxes. We should not and cannot raise taxes in tough economic times. So it doesn’t matter really what my definition of rich is because I don’t want to raise anybody’s taxes.”

Umm, George -- I mean John? (I never could get those Beatle names straight.) Can I make a few points here?

• 3 million dollars to study the DNA of bears in Montana (for which there probably was a good reason; have you ever noticed how the wingnuts just love to highlight the "ridiculous" ways that "our tax money" is "wasted" by elite intellectuals?) is a drop in the bucket compared to the over half a trillion dollars spent so far on Bush's War.
• Congress went on recess for 5 weeks. How many days of vacation has that mean,rich little man in the White House taken since he first ascended to the presidency? An average of 69 days a year? (69, hmm? My brother Jim, when he was about 14, painted a great big 69 on a t-shirt and wouldn't tell me what it meant. But I digress.)
• You keep saying "they" like it's someone else taking the flargin' Congressional pay raises!
• "Let's not have government take over the health care system in America" Um, except for the Congressional health care plan. That can stay.

Grrrrrrrrr. Mr. McCain, you are not only a weenie, but a blithering idiot. And a whole lot more, but the cuss-meter inside my head is about to go sproing.