John McCain
Morning Joe
Interview
TRANSCRIPT:
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Why did these items have to be in this pivotal bill?
JOHN MCCAIN: Well that is just the way the system is working in Washington and the reason why its got to be fixed. And its got to be changed, and no matter what the stakes are youve got to stop this by starting to veto bills that come across the presidents desk. They cant help themselves and if you like some of those pork barrel projects, check out some of the ones that Senator Obama has proposed
SCARBOROUGH: Well you know Senator though, what is so staggering, even before Obama was in the Senate after 9/11, my god 9/11, while ground zero was still smoldering you all passed a bill to take care of it to protect this country, and people used the 9/11 relief bill to put pork barrel projects in there, its just, its insanity.
MCCAIN: Its insanity and its obscenity and until frankly we get a President that will say Im going to veto these bills, Im going to make the people famous
SCARBOROUGH: Explain this to me, when George W. Bush became President of the United States we had a $155 Billion surplus, we have now seen that surplus go to a deficit, we are going to have a $500 Billion deficit this year, a $5 Trillion debt became a $10 Trillion dollar debt, George W. Bush never vetoed a single spending bill while Rome was burning. Why not?
MCCAIN: Because they believed having the majority for such a long time, not the last two years, that they didnt want to harm the old boy cozy network that existed and caused these huge earmark spending And I and others fought tooth and nail against it, railed against it, I was called the sheriff, I was able to eliminate a lot of these projects, and there are a handful of us that have been fighting and warning that this could be incredibly harmful to the Republican party to the Republican party. And there is a sharp difference, a total difference between myself and President Bush on the issue of pork barrel and earmark out of control spending and the growth of government without paying for it, dont forget that part.
SCARBOROUGH: Sarah has not done very well in some of these one on one interviews, would you be willing to admit this morning that your campaign may not have handled Sarah Palin as well as they should have during the past month?
MCCAIN: No I think weve handled her fine.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Given especially what youve just been saying on our broadcast right now, why then didnt you vote against a bill that is corrupting and stand up to pork and all this spending during an economic crisis that some say puts this country on the brink of an economic disaster?
MCCAIN: Because of what you just said Mika, that this bill is putting us on the brink of economic disaster, there were plenty of other bills that I fought against
BRZEZINSKI: But if were going to have leadership through a crisis like this, and if we are going to look to you for that leadership, dont we have to stand up to the very things that are bringing Washington, at this point Wall Street down?
MCCAIN: If you look at this, The Citizens For a Sound Economy, the National Tax-payers Union, the Citizens Against Government Waste, I have been a hero to them because I have fought continuously against these I investigated Jack Abramoff
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LABEL: JM MSNBC 10-02-08 08.53 (KF#212) GHJUV Part1
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MSNBC is almost as bad as Fox.
Muchodelcrazy 2 years ago
he is just retarded idiot
muajaahid 3 years ago
mccain for 08
sparkle993 3 years ago
we love OBAMA... the best is obama. mc cain = war = gözyaşı... obama very good
malazana 3 years ago
so many lies its time to get a baseball bat and sort them out!
kargenlewis 3 years ago 2
McCain is really good at admitting all the problems and corruption in DC, but he forgets he has been there for nearly 3 decades, and contined to feed the corruption, but some how doesnt seem to know that he and the other croonies are the problem. He didnt even answer the question once again, hmm, go figure.
300Noobs 3 years ago
when mccain dies or doesnt win im gonna, call some beutiful peeple and chant away those evil spirits his unattractive wicked mean destroy ALL LIFE ass left.then im gonna rob his home n feed the whole world so obama wont have to fix the mess their making right now jus for obama n the black original god humans to fix already.i mean cmon the whiteman invented cancer n death n stuff so lets get rid of that shit huh its 2008.cus their gonna make it very hard for obama to feed the poor.
whitepeepleareDevils 3 years ago
the system is really broken...it's disgusting
meganmcdonald2006 3 years ago 2
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McCain is awesome!
ryanmichaelgray 3 years ago
Wait - he voted for a bill that he thinks the President should veto??? Why is this not huge news?
amaraya 3 years ago