McCain Says No to Jobs Bill

Sen. John McCain said he wouldn't support President Barack Obama's push for a new jobs bill, saying it would just be a repeat of failed policy.

"It's a stimulus bill again. It's failed. They said when we passed the last stimulus bill that we'd have 8 percent unemployment. That was their commitment. It's 10 percent [now]. Most Americans don't believe that mortgaging our children's futures is the way to go about it, particularly with the kind of stimulus package that failed in the past," the Arizona Republican said on CBS' "The Early Show" Thursday.

Job creation was a major theme of President Obama's State of the Union address Wednesday. So was bridging the partisan divide between Democrats and Republicans, particularly on health care.
But McCain's balk at the jobs bill may show just how hard it will be to accomplish both of those goals.

On health care reform, McCain said Republicans would "of course" compromise, "but we've got to be brought in on the negotiations. We were not. Nor have we on any other issue."

"If there's true bipartisan negotiations, if they will bring us in on the takeoff, hopefully we can be in on the landing. But the facts are that they figured that had they had 60 votes at the beginning of this health care debate … and they decided they would ram it through.

McCain rattled of a list of Republican proposals that he hoped Democrats would consider in a new health care reform package. Among them: medical malpractice reform, the ability to go across state lines to get insurance policies, rewarding wellness and fitness, establishing risk pools for people with pre-existing conditions and encouraging health savings accounts. - CBS News Story

Obama stood and preached about the Republicans being the "party of no". What he didn't preach to was the fact that on every bill that the Republicans were the party of no was because the Democrats felt that they had the votes and certainly didn't need to work with Republicans. He forgot that there was no transparency in the negotiations. He forgot about the big money used to buy Democrats votes. He forgot about the public saying emphatically NO. He forgot that he promised bipartisanship and has been the most dividing President.

Obama is a great speaker. He can stand there and tell you what you want to hear with a straight face. He can BS with the best of them. What he doesn't have is the leadership to follow through and get things done.

Obama had a whole year with all the cards in his favor and still couldn't get it done. At one point in the speech he said you can't point fingers and blame. Yet every single day of his Presidency he has done nothing but blame someone else.

If Obama wants change, start with himself.