What would President McCain have done?

DetlefK

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Mon Aug-01-11 05:22 AM
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What would President McCain have done?

Do you really think, he would have had any problems raising the debt ceiling?

If the liberals ever try to pull what the Tea Party just did, do you really think a republican president will hesitate to use the 14th amendment short-cut?

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Syrinx

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Mon Aug-01-11 05:30 AM
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1. he would have invaded Ecuador

Or maybe San Diego.

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ZombieHorde

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Mon Aug-01-11 05:30 AM
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2. No one knows. nt

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gordianot

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Mon Aug-01-11 05:40 AM
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3. McCain would have slept a lot and woke up cranky.

By now Mrs Palin would have fed him poison brownies.

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liberal N proud

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Mon Aug-01-11 05:45 AM
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4. There would not have been this debate if he were President

Because the 8 years of tax cuts and continued spending on needless wars would have continued and the Congress would have just voted increase after increase.

This was only a debate because the teabaggers took office with a Democratic President.

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MADem

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Mon Aug-01-11 07:30 AM
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7. Bingo. NT

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LVjinx

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Mon Aug-01-11 06:25 AM
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5. Every democrat DID vote against raising the debt ceiling in 2006.

As far as what McCain might have done, it's impossible to say. He became so addled in his attempt to appeal to the far-right of the republican party that any sense of sane or cohesive strategy was lost. He literally might have tried anything. Thank goodness we don't have to find out.

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LaydeeBug

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Mon Aug-01-11 06:36 AM
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6. what every other pres has done: GOTTEN A FUCKING ONE SENTENCE DEBT INCREASE.

So we *probably* should have held more meaningful conversations during the REAL race which was the dem primary.

LET IT STINK

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BklnDem75

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Mon Aug-01-11 08:00 AM
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10. Get over it?

It's been 3 years now.

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LaydeeBug

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Mon Aug-01-11 10:13 AM
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11. YOU get over it...

when progressives stay home.

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BklnDem75

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Mon Aug-01-11 11:07 AM
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15. I know that's what you hope

Just like the primaries, you'll be disappointed again.

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treestar

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Mon Aug-01-11 10:17 AM
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13. THe real race was the 2010 Congressional Elections

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RoadRage

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Mon Aug-01-11 07:35 AM
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8. You mean.. what would Palin have done?

'Cause McCain would have had a heart attack about 5 major decisions ago... and she'd be sitting in the big chair.

And what do I think she would have done? Whatever Todd told her to do = more tax breaks for the Oil Companies, more gun rights, and more people below the poverty line. Just a guess....

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bigwillq

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Mon Aug-01-11 07:40 AM
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9. None of us know.

Any other answer is just speculation.

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treestar

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Mon Aug-01-11 10:16 AM
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12. Yes, they would have hesitated

Wars are the Republican thing and no wonder, foreign affairs is one area where the president has a lot of power.

Domestic affairs do not interest them.

The problem with raising the debt ceiling is that it is something a Democratic Congress would do for a Republican president. Being responsible governing. Only Republicans would hold it hostage like that.

This is what comes of looking at things as "winning" and "losing" rather than governing. Losing the Democratic Congress was a big problem.

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DemocratSinceBirth

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Mon Aug-01-11 10:19 AM
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14. If McCain Was Elected President There Would Have

Edited on Mon Aug-01-11 10:20 AM by DemocratSinceBirth

If McCain was elected president there would be seventy Democratic senators and three hundred Democratic representatives as the Republicants would be blamed for this mess. If it wasn't for civil liberties I'd rather see the Republicants fail to dig us out of the ditch they made.

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