Post partisan is here and it is good news for John McCain!
McCain says he'll support Obama budget-cutting
Sen. John McCain, who lost to Obama in last year's presidential election, said he supports any attempt to cut discretionary domestic spending. "We need to do so," he said Tuesday.
But in an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America," the Arizona Republican said Obama "has got to veto bills that are laden with pork-barrel spending, earmarks."
No less than four times during the presidential debates did President Obama actively campaign against an across the board spending freeze.
Of course, during the Presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) proposed a similar spending freeze, which Obama repeatedly condemned as an "example of unfair burden sharing," and "using a hatchet where you need a scalpel."
Think Progress
Not change I can believe in.
Like the mandate, public option, FISA, NAFTA renegotiation and so many more things, there is a growing credibility gap between what Senator Obama campaigned on and what President Obama does. [Paleo also pointed out the excise tax on helath insurance benefits that he campaigned agaisnt and then supported in office]
For example, NAFTA:
Barack Obama said Monday that his campaign never gave Canada back-channel assurances that his harsh words about the North American Free Trade Agreement were for political show — despite the disclosure of a Canadian memo indicating otherwise.
According to the memo obtained by The Associated Press, Obama's senior economic adviser told Canadian officials in Chicago that the debate over free trade in the Democratic presidential primary campaign was "political positioning" and that Obama was not really protectionist.
3/03/08: Obama Denies Assuring Canada on NAFTA
Obama has promised that one of his first orders of business as president will be to call upon the leaders of Canada and Mexico to renegotiate stronger labor and environmental provisions into NAFTA. Both he and Clinton were specific about using the six-month opt-out clause in order to put pressure for changes to be made.
6/13/08
In an interview with Fortune to be featured in the magazine's upcoming issue, the presumptive Democratic nominee backed off his harshest attacks on the free trade agreement and indicated he didn't want to unilaterally reopen negotiations on NAFTA.
"Sometimes during campaigns the rhetoric gets overheated and amplified," he conceded, after I reminded him that he had called NAFTA "devastating" and "a big mistake," despite nonpartisan studies concluding that the trade zone has had a mild, positive effect on the U.S. economy.
Does that mean his rhetoric was overheated and amplified? "Politicians are always guilty of that, and I don't exempt myself," he answered.
Obama: NAFTA not so bad after all
Unfortunately, it's all good news for John McCain.
What a disappointment.