Oh no, my friends, the Democratic Party is a family, and the family is united. Thank you, Senator Clinton, for your gracious comments and your willingness to continue to stand with this party. The infighting is beginning in the Republican Party.
John McCain is between a rock and a hard place. You KNOW he's in trouble when he's boldy and profusely praising Hillary Clinton (someone the Republicans worked to destroy for more than a decade) and is hiding from being seen in public with George Bush.
Now McSame's economic advisors are getting in on the act. What is it they have to say about George Bush's economy?
Douglas Holtz-Eakin said the only similarity between McCain's economic plan and Bush's is a commitment to keep taxes low.
``Sadly, it seems that is all President Bush understood in the economy,'' Holtz-Eakin said in an interview to be broadcast this weekend on Bloomberg Television's ``Conversations with Judy Woodruff.'' It is Barack Obama's budget plan, not Senator McCain's, that resembles Bush's policies, he said.
Here's where it gets ugly, if you're a Bush supporter, lovin' it if you're me:
'' ...It is Barack Obama's budget plan, not Senator McCain's, that resembles Bush's policies, he said.
``It's dedicated to the recent Bush tradition of spending money on everything,'' Holtz-Eakin said.
This is the latest and most aggressive effort by the McCain campaign to distance the candidate from the unpopular policies of Bush. Illinois Senator Obama has charged that a McCain victory in November would amount to a third Bush term on economics.
Now Barack Obama is the 'third term Bushie'? The desperation grows exponentially!!! Now, not only does McCain NOT want to be identified as a Bushie, his campaign wants to make Obama Bush's successor, believing it will damage Obama to be tied to Bush's economic plans. How will Bush and his loyalists react? I can't wait to find out. Will Holz-Eakin hav a job after today? Assuming that 'Foreclosure Phil' hasn't had him canned, might that be a sign that they're ready to admit what an utter disaster Bush has been? The question is, can McCain run from Bush, at this late stage in the game?
We'll pretend, for a moment, that McSame wasn't pushing the tax cuts and vowing to make make them permanent if he's elected. We'll pretend that he didn't vote with Bush on Bush's agenda 95% of the time. We'll pretend that McCain hasn't claimed that the economy isn't quite as bad as most seem to believe it is - that Bush's economy was making progress. What happens when confronted about his proposed budget from objective reviewers:
``That plan, when appropriately phased in, as it has always been intended to be, will bring the budget to balance by the end of his first term,'' he said. Budget watchdog groups such as the Concord Coalition in Washington have said that's unlikely because of a large imbalance between the size of the tax cuts McCain proposes and the spending reductions he cites to offset them.
What is the response?
Holtz-Eakin said that those groups' analyses were based on ``incomplete information,'' and that they have since been provided with further details.
Delicious, the cannibalism begins. Former Republican Senator, Alan Simpson once said that Republicans eat their young. Apparently they eat them full grown, too! Which is the gift that keeps giving, John McCain or George Bush? Both? That's what I thought, too!