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John  McCain says he is willing to take the blame for the Republican Party losing the election to Barack Obama. You think?

I wish I could blame the whole loss all on him but sad to say that John McCain is simply the poster child for what has gone wrong with the Republican Party, a mere figure head that is symbolic of a party that turned its back on conservative party principles.

So it is no surprise that John McCain is crawling out of the woodwork alongside repeat conservative party base backstabber Lindsey Graham with the pretense that they are somehow going to carry the new mantle  “of the Republican Party and the base.”

Here is a quote from McCain and a former McCain staffer as it appeared in the Chicago Tribune yesterday:

“We just lost an election, and I will take the responsibility for that,” he said on the Senate floor. “One of the reasons why Republicans lost the last election is because our base, who are concerned about our stewardship of their tax dollars, believes we got on a spending spree.”

The presidential campaign made McCain one of the most prominent members of a troubled Republican Party. And it may have also made him a different kind of Republican in his old Senate job.

“We’re a party without a leader,” said John Weaver, a former McCain aide. “McCain has to carry the banner of the Republican Party and the base. And he campaigned on a conservative economic agenda. It would be hard to walk away from that.”

Sometimes shut the hell up isn’t a strong enough sentiment. We’ve had enough of John McCain’s style of leadership. Maybe, just maybe if McCain had used the above sentiment as a starting point say 8 years ago, AND STUCK WITH IT, we wouldn’t be in the position we are in today.

But that is not the only reason why Republicans lost the election. John McCain in his typical style of short sighted rhetoric is forgetting about borders, language and culture. He is forgetting about fighting for what you think is right. Newsflash Mac, that doesn’t mean changing your colors like a chameleon after you helped decimate the party that you pretended to represent.

And what does President Obama have to say about all this?

Responding to the Republican critique, Obama has said that his election to the White House was a mandate to take a new direction in tax and spending policies, and that McCain’s ideas, which are heavy on tax cutting, have been discredited by the economic downturn the country is already suffering.

Really? Show me an economist that advocates tripling the country’s debt as a good plan for economic recovery. I’m talking real economist and not some partisan hack that believes stimulus is code for pursuing any particular ideologically based socioeconomic agenda.

I am sad to say that I am reminiscent of the days where Democrats were out beating the drum against the ever increasing national debt.

Funny how Obama and all the rest of his lapdogs in Congress fail to see that the Bush Administration spent like drunken sailors and yet the economy continued to erode. What about that example? By all accounts shouldn’t we be better off as a result?

Or how about this one?  President Bush had given the country tax rebates as a form of stimulus. Result failure. Instead of helping stimulate the economy by giving tax breaks to small businesses so they can invest more we gave welfare checks that only went toward paying down debt at best, although I imagine that the effect was negligible as most people involved in the mortgage crisis debacle are already so upside down that any small rebate was just money out the window.

Let us not forget that we have already had multiple bailout plans that were designed to “stimulate the economy”. There was the AIG bailout plan? Recently GMAC received $5 billion. But all of that pales to the big answer in the original bailout (nearly $1 Trillion dollars known as the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 with TARP), something like 11% that just disappeared without any answer, poof.  Worse, when banks were asked what they did with the money they already received we get answers like “duh, I don’t know”. So logically going back to the guys that passed out the candy would seem like a place  to get answers. But sadly that group of morons (known as the U.S. Senate) that originally decided that secrecy was the answer when they came up with the scheme are now left without any answers because the guys in the treasury that are handing out the cash won’t say. Good plan.

So the big secret is not so big. The idiots in government that essentially robbed the U.S. taxpayer while concurrently nationalizing our mortgage system and yes, sadly, now our banks, are saying that the plan failed and we need a do over. Another dip into your pockets.

No surprise that Obama is acting like none of this ever happened because as they said during the election, he was instrumental in getting this plan to pass.

If anyone is looking for real examples they don’t have to go back and relive the failed and disastrous policies of FDR that resulted in prolonging the depression by an estimated 7 years. Recent history shows a better example for today’s malaise. Ronald Reagan turned around one of the worst economic situations of our lifetime, and he did it with tax cuts. Yes he spent as well. But if you are looking for examples perhaps these smart people ought to look at more than one specific example that resulted in a welfare state that we have yet to recover from.

When are people going to wake the hell up? We need a complete do over on both sides. It’s time to run these shysters out of Congress.

See also: Michelle Malkin

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