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I voted for Obama but McCain is right on this one. We don't need more deficit than we already have.

maybe Sen McCain and some of the other GOP has beens should take a page out of President Bush's book and let Obama have their silence, especially if they can offer no better alternative. Better yet maybe just wait for this new GOP budget plan they are supposed to be making to come out and see what they do have to offer.

It is amazing that so few grasp the significance of spending money we simply do not have! McCain is right! The Congress and administration are stealing from our children. The boomers have already stolen from me a clean planet and a functioning economy, I darn well will not see that this government steals any more from my children. Anyone over 45 needs to suck it up and pay the bills – not charge their excess against me and my kids!!!! I would like to retire someday and not work until I die just because a bunch of id10ts want to spend spend spend. They are artificially inflating the economy and it will all crash and burn again!

And President Obama bought all of your votes for a $400 tax refund?????

What's with all the hate and bile coming from you libs? You won the presidency and control both houses of congress so now you get to do it your way. You're behaving as if somebody is going to take it away from you. The only way you will lose it is if you screw up, Of course, if you do screw up then you will certainly lose it. A lot of you sound as if you sense your grip on power weakening already.

Sen. McCain is the anti-Scary Spice; Scary Ice. That's one angry man......He lost, and he's not going to take it lying down. The fight is on for the next four years. He don't know karate, but he knows
ka-taser.......God will not let His man fail...............He will not let this country fall........Lift up your heads, and encourage yourselves. Life is beautiful...........If you're alive, you're blessed........
TBC...

Can McCain stop Bloomberg and the MTA from increasing fares !!!

McCain has never had any problem with building new schools, highways, bridges and a new electrical grid in Iraq. Did he ever do anything to stop the no-bid system there that allowed US contractors to bilk the American people out of billion and billions of dollars? Now, investing in our antiquated broken down infrastructure in the US in too expensive? It is sad, when you travel to any other western country our infrastructure looks old and crumbling compared to theirs, because they haven't wasted their time and money fighting ridiculous concocted wars or in some stupid arms race. McCain is not saying anything different...if the American people thought his way was the right way, he would have won the election. He didn't. With only 7% of the electorate admitting to being staunch republicans, I would say he really does not have much of a voice here anymore.

Where were the Repubs when were spending, like, a million dollars a minute in IraQ?

It amazes me that Senator McCain has so much to say now about the economy, but early in the campaign admitted that he knew very little about the subject. Then when even he realized our country was in trouble, the only advice he could offer was lower the taxes, especially to the rich.

I would prefer listening to a politiian who knows the subject.

McCain has exhausted his time and usefulness in the Senate, and should resign at the end of his term.

Senator McCain flip flops from one platform to another. Once again he's just throwing out a lot of issues against President Obama to see which one will stick. Go away Senator McCain...leave the politics to your daughter.

I'm not a big fan of McCain's but I have to admit that I agree that not only is Obama's budget a threat to the nation, but after listening to him again last night, the man himself is a threat to the nation. I just hope we can survive this 4 years. You can't get out of debt by going deeper into debt, that just does not make sense at all.

@ Tim who said "Remember the good old days when we laughed at people who walked around with "The End Is Near" signs hung around their necks?
Well, today, we're still laughing because the people wearing the signs now are called REPUBLICANS!!!
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Best post of the day!! Love it

Mccain, isn't it your generation theft that put us in debt in the first place, I mean how long have you been in the Senate? Weren't you there during all 8 years of Bush. Why weren't you able to do something before it got this bad. Hindsight is 20/20 Senator Mccain. By the way, didn't President Obama ask the Republican's to come up with a budget plan or at least some ideas to work with. Why not just get your party together and work with the Democrats in a Bi-Partisian way and stop doing the standard GOP just say no go on Fox and complain route.

Sure, doubling the National Debt is a threat to the Nation.
The question is: is letting the financial system fail, and letting the economy slide into Depression a greater threat?
This is a tough choice. Obama was left with a monstrous national debt, which had more than doubled under Bush. There's no money to spend to fix the economy, so it must be borrowed.
Is it better to let the economy crash?
It is indeed a stark choice, but that's the situation that Bush left America with.
Until McCain can offer a third option, a way of lifting the economy without such a high price tag, then his comments are just hot air.

PLEASE!!! stop trying to scare people. I do not see how you could do any better Sen.McCain. I am getting very tired of you and some of your friends trying to push the panic button. And for your info, you don't know what the public wants or needs. Juse think about the last eight years.

Reading the personal remarks aimed at John McCain, only reminds me that liberals choose to demonize people because they can't argue with logic. Instead of being objective and blaming Bush and Obama both for putting us in this position, these people only know how to criticize Republicans.
Obama has been only too willing to get his socialist agenda on fast track – which is ownership of the private sector by the government. The $9.3 T deficit should scare every citizen in thsi country regardless of who they voted for.

There you go again Mr. McCain. You told us during the recent presidential campaign which incidentally lose in a landslide that you don't know anything about the economy....oh may be you learned all of a sudden. Wow what a miracle. Enough!!!!

And Senator McCain during his campaign said he wanted to continue the war in Iraq at the cost of 10 billion dollars a month!! Why weren't you worried about the deficit then??

I am unclear on McCain's pov here – what alternatives is he proposing? The point may be overstated, but it is current Rebulican ideology that helped to ruin our economy and bring us to the edge of socialism. When is someone in McCain's position going to own this and start offering real solutions instead of playing up to their party ambitions?

We need more than 1 party to help keep the checks and balances in order, but this kind of bs continually proves to show how out of touch these folks are.

Who is this man? What he thinks, says and does are remarkably insignificant.

Can we all get along, PLEASE!! seems like everybody is running for 2012 already, why the political agenda, when we have serious issues to focus on.
Any senotor out of work in washington? i thought so.....these guys are living large for LIFE with our tax dollars.

Mccain sat there for the last eight years and let Bush and his boys run this country into the ground and all of a sudden he is so concerned ..the only concern that the republicans have is that money is going to help the poor instead of lining the rich pockets ... i truly believe that the rebublican would rather see the country fail then to see the presidents policy work

hey guys I know most of you love Obama, really, fine it is your choice, but 9. 3 trilion !!!! wake up people do you know how much is that....

Honey, the Republicans are not right. I'm not saying that the Democrats are angels, but baby, when you dig one whole you better dig two. God is going to take care of this group.

John McCain also told us Iraq was a threat to the US, so what does he know?

The worse threat is the Republicans getting their hands on more money to spend on needless wars like Iraq. Bad enough they spent billions for Iraq and to rebuild it while our cities sank under floods and bridges crumbled here. They are ones to talk while they let America just decay and rot while they pillaged our coffers on wasteful spending. What did Bush and Republicans do to rebuild America? NOTHING! At least we are investing money in US for a change.

i am so sick of mccain, palin and all the republicans, conservatives, they need to get a life, they are so upset that President Obama is doing such a wonderful job. He is the best President we ever had. They need to congratulate and not hate....

We did not elect you President! After seeing your performance, I would not elect you dog catcher. Strange at one time I would have consider you. Thank you for showing your true face during the campaign and during this time we need to come together for America. Support President Obama and help him clean up the Bush mess. Your choice of Palin is unforgiveable, this woman wants to attack President Obama and at the same time deny funds for disalibed childen and the people of Alaska. You sir gave this woman the stage. Are we really suprised she does not value education for Alaskan people? She is so unqualifed and not smart enough to stay out of the lime light for ten years and get an education in the subjects needed to even be considered for VP.

Despite the naysayers and the obvious challenges the President has faced this week, I am detecting a small note of optimism in our nation, not of a miraculous recovery but more on the lines of the little engine that could. People are thinking we can beat our challenges and recover because Americans thrive on challenges because we enjoy the triumph of our achievements over long odds. We have the drive, capability and enthusiasm to succeed and so we shall.

We did not elect you President! After seeing your performance, I would not elect you dog catcher. Strange at one time I would have consider you. Thank you for showing your true face during the campaign and during this time we need to come together for America. Support President Obama and help him clean up the Bush mess.

McCain is a sad, old, senile man.

A disgrace to this country indeed.

Wow, glad to have you come around RINO. Did someone finally wipe the sleep from your eyes?

You know, John, if you were a conservative instead of a RINO, you might have actually won.

You see, when there is already a liberal on the ballot, you don't win by being "liberal lite" because the liberals are going to vote for the REAL liberal anyway... they'll vote for the REAL Coca-Cola, not John McCain, the Diet Coke of Liberalism.

"The Congressional Budget Office report proves that the administration has indeed engaged in a policy of generational theft," said McCain

Are you kidding? It was Pres. Bush, aided and abetted by the Republican majority in Congress who decided to start the war in Iraq by borrowing money from China rather than taxing Americans to "pay as we went." It was Pres. Bush who, with his colleagues, didn't think the auto industry needed to heed the message about the oil crisis. Now, because of the deteriorating economy - not because of anything the current President has done in 60 days - the deficit has grown. One of the reasons Sen. McCain was not elected is because he was cynical and didn't seem to have any core beliefs that he backed up by his actions. While running for president in 2008 he repeated his belief that the war in Iraq should continue but taxes should not rise to pay for it.
If there is a "different course" he should have found it a long time ago, and not now try to dump this on Pres. Obama. It properly belongs to the legacy of Pres. George W. Bush (who turned Pres. Clinton's surplus into a deficit in the first place)

It's McCain that's a threat to our nation. How can this man think any of us would pay attention or believe anything he says is beyond me. This is a person who changes his mind many times daily as to what he believes, as well as rushing into things without thinking them through as proven many times in his campaign. I, for one, do not give a rat's a... about what he thinks.

McCain your CONTINUE THE WAR AT 10 BILLION DOLLARS A MONTH IS WHAT THREATENED OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN! WE DESERVED TO HEAR THOSE NUMBERS WHILE YOU WERE CAMPAIGNING.

BESIDES, WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT HONEST ACCOUNTING? YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MANY HOUSES YOU OWN!

Someone better be concerned before it is too late if isn't already.......

Where was all this outrage when the Repugs were running up trilion dollar deficits in an illegal war....

Old, out-of-touch, deluded, McSame. Hey John, YOU LOST! Remember? Why not just go back to demeaning women, you're good at that.

And this from a guy who is the resident expert on macroeconomics. Give us break.

Why am I not surprised the republicans fail to see the long term benefits of investing in the rebuilding our infrastructure; making our health care system more efficient with proactive preventive care (as opposed to expensive, reactive emergency care); promoting and developing green energy sources; and, most important of all, the education of all children, regardless of there economic wherewithal. Yes, there are expensive up-front costs associated with these endeavors, but we cannot afford to put these much needed reforms on the back burner any longer.

It seems as if republicans expect private enterprise to take care of these things for us. But it's about time they come to the realization that there are some things that only our government can accomplish. And I, for one, don't mind paying more taxes to support this great and wonderful country we live in. All for one and one for all!!!!!

How grateful as a nation can we be that this idiot and his dumberer VP choice is not in charge of this country!

No one cares John! The country doesn't listen to your Republican ramblings anymore. President Obama is trying to make things better for the people.......not keep us under a Republican thumb as you would do if you were in his shoes.

That's true

After years of runaway spending McCain & Friends are now crying about spending? I've got news for these clowns, thanks to the mess we they put us in the only solution now is to inject massive amounts of money into the system to keep it from collapsing. Sure all this spending is not popular but it's what needs to be done to get us out of this mess.

McCain should have been worried about our grandchildren's future and spoken out against the Bush tax cuts and the Iraq war. He didn't see the cost there.

McCain's proven shortsightedness is the reason why he lost the election and has no credibility.

What's McCain's answer besides just saying "no"?

At this point we have to do more than just tread water. Obama is thinking and planning long term, something Republicans are far too incompetent to do.

You just can't be trust loosers can you. They become critics.

Sorry John, but you should have been doing that for the past eight years instead of kissing Bush and passing laws supporting total deregulation of the banking system, allowance of fraudulent mortgages, and destruction of the Middle Class. You are a sad, sorry shadow of what you use to be and Teddy Roosevelt would be ashamed of you.

GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!

John, where were you when we spend a trillion dollars on a war of choice in Iraq? And the total cost of the war for liberating Iraq is not yet over. The debt resulting from lax Republican oversight is what led us to the worse recession in our history. Where were you? Where were you on the S & L bailouts? On a plane to the Bahamas with your pal, Charles Keating of the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan?

I guess he'll never get over the fact that he lost (Badly) so to pay Obama back he wants to criticize him at every turn...

Thank you, Thank you, McCain for standing up to these folks. I am fearful of what is to come for my children and the generations to come. Please, folks wake up and really follow what Obama is proposing.

Keep up the great work, John!!!

What a crock! Everything Obama does is a threat to the nation if you ask John McCain, Dick Cheney or any other member of the losers club that opposed him last year. McCain is a threat to America in his efforts to thwart recovery from the financial debacle that harks back to the old days of the S&L scam that he participated in back in the day! Hey, big John, don't start acting like some economic guru again, or we'll remind you that you, yourself admited that you didn't know squat about economics – right about the time you said the American economy was fundamentally sound. Idiot!

Wow, how amusing that the GOP talks about "threats to the nation" and continue to uphold the party's standards of sheer hypocricy...

$9.3 trillion worth of debt will devastate the nation. Anyone with any economic sense knows that, it is not a partisan thing.

The ONLY threat to this nation is a retard like you, McCain and that
illiterate you had as your running mate...water does seek its own level,
McCain, doesn't it?

WHO is this again???

Does McCain's picture have a LOST look to it? The only threat to this nation was left behind when Bushy and Dicky left office.

This message from the guy and the party that got us into this mess is most amusing. Where was he before when Bush tore through a surplus left to him by the Clinton Administration and created the biggest deficit in the history of our country ? This guy needs to shut his piehole and get out of the way so the adults can fix this problem the Republican children made. Why are they still the party of no ? Haven't they learned anything from the last election and what the people want ? NO,NO,NO... IRRELEVENCY fits them rather well !!!

Ever heard of an antique having anything new to say?

Sen. McCain is acting like a sore loser. I really don't think the dollar amounts in the budget would be all that much different if he had won and listened to well-informed economists.

All I hear from Republicans is reasons why Obama's plans won't work – never a serious alternative. I guess they really are the party of no – no ideas.

LET OUR PRESIDENT WORK!!!! YOU ARE NOT PRESIDENT, YOU LOST!!!! GIVE OBAMA A YEAR YOU IDIOT YOU IGNORANT SORE LOSER!!!!!!!! AHHHH HOW MANY TIMES DOES THIS HAVE TO BE SAID TO ALL AMERICANS! LET THE MAN WORK FOR A YEAR OR AT LEAST 6 MONTHS BEFORE YOU USE YOUR SCARE TATICS AND ACT LIKE THE WORLD IS AT AN END BECAUSE OBAMA IS PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!

Yeah sorry but I just can't take McCain seriously. After all this is a guy who just last year was palling around with financial terrorists Phil "deregulate everything" Gramm and John "I deserve my $10,000,000 bonus" Thain.

And we care what this old fool thinks why????

McCain has still not produced a single idea or solution during or after his campaign. He needs to retire to his rich, clueless world and let the real leaders handle the restoration of our nation.

McCain is his own biggest disaster. He needs to shut up and get out of the way of the progress President Obama is achieving.

Obama job approval rating = 68% overall
Repubican job approval rating = 24% and falling

Answer: The Republican Party is irrelevant and unneeded for America to succeed and return to prosperity, have great education standards, create affordable healthcare for ALL – not just the free government healthcare that all members of Congress get, and energy independence that will get us off of oil forever and secure our nation from Middle Eastern control.

McCain is still a loser and still clueless and I have no idea why CNN keeps quoting the constant negative noise that he spews every time a TV camera is around. Please tune him out – Americans have!

We are listening to our intelligent President who has done several outstanding town hall meetings that CNN has ignored. The crowds gave him standing ovations for the plans he is laying out. He just predicted yesterday that Republicans would attack his budget because it cuts all the PORK from Republican pockets. Republicans survive only from special interest money so they are going to scream and whine on Obama's budget that fufills education, healthcare, energy, and new job needs.

We need to keep supporting President Obama and his programs that are working and just tune out the negative Republican noise that only clutters the airwaves with useless garbage.

Follow NC's lead and vote out your Senators who have betrayed your state and your people- we can't wait to get rid of our useless Sen Richard Burr!

From the horses mouth, here stands the man who probably lost his bid for president because he put his campaign on hold to return to washington to personaly fix the economy after claiming just months before that the state of the economy was sound.... good grief, I think the GOP is under the impression that people will buy anything they spew, it's a daily mix of 'talking points' handed down through the party and no attempt at all to accept the majority of the blame for getting us here even if only becasue the GOP was in office the last 8 years. Grow a pair, nothing garners more respect than fessing up to the truth, get it over with or forget about the next election cycle.

That is the truth! Big Government will be death of our Nation!

John, if it was up to you, your economic move would be to give the rich tax cuts. Which would increase the deficit at an even faster rate. (See the first 2 years of George W. Bush) Fortunately John, it isn't up to you. By the way, when was the last time you actually had something positive to say? Oh, I know. The day you told us all that the economy was sound while it was actually tanking.

Let's see here, a repugnican claiming something to be a "threat to the nation", huh?!?! I would say the biggest "threats" are(were): the last 8 years of foreign policy, lack of affordable healthcare, condoning torture and then freeing the tortured to tell the world, warrantless wiretapping, defining Americans as enemy combatants, unregulated free markets, credit-default swaps, mortgage-backed bonds, secret prisons, not supporting Americans that can't support themselves i.e. Katrina, Veterans, Homeless, Mentally challenged! Please old man go home to your multiple mansions and leave America to someone that's trying to do things a little different, like preventing the next American bridge collapse or being prepared for the next category 5 hurricane!

Remember the good old days when we laughed at people who walked around with "The End Is Near" signs hung around their necks?

Well, today, we're still laughing because the people wearing the signs now are called REPUBLICANS!!!

But, they are half right – The End IS Near, for the Republican Party!

To add insult to your injury – you Republicans are making Al Gore look like an optimist!!!

The rest of us are laughing all the way to the bank – and taking our money back!

I am so glad McCain lost.

Running up trillions of dollars of debt to pay for an unnecessary war in the Middle East was just fine with McCain, but running up $787 billion to help out of work Americans is a threat to our country ????

Only in the mind of someone who doesn't even know how many homes he owns. Hey Big Mac, time to press the snooze button and go back to sleep.

No, McCain, YOU are a threat to the nation, you warmonger Crypt Keeper.

Interesting,how quick Senator McCain forgets the 9.7 trillion debt left by the neo-cons.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons you were not elected,Senator McCain,you can't remember well enough.

At least President Obama has some ideas, as opposed to the Republican Party of NO, about getting the U.S. economy out of the hole that was dug by President Bush and the Republican Yes Men in Congress.

I think it's clear from the past few Republican administrations who has been practicing "generational theft," Senator McCain. Which president had the last surplus? Answer? Democrat Bill Clinton. To imply that the Democrats are responsible for the current deficits is simply false.

McCain please shut up and let the man do what he wants. You are not poor with your seven or so houses and 5 or so cars. You are not thinking and never will think about the American people. If the President wasn't so open about what is going on then the American people would not know but he took the oath to let us see and hear what is going on and we as the people can voice our opinon but you are so full it that you think everything should go your way. Shut up and chill old man.

McCain,

Shut up and go away! Stop pretending to be concerned about the future generations and how mug they'll be paying! We are already paying for a pointless war, one that you wanted to continue which is costing us trillions and it's all for another country! So the fact that president Obama wants to help our country, I'll gladly pay my taxes!

Go back to being just another broken down Senator from Arizona and concern yourself with the citizens of Arizona.
President Obama will take care of the citizens of America.

Where were these 'fiscally responsible' republicans for the past 8 years when we could have used them? Oh yes, they were voting for ever increasing record deficit spending! THAT's when they should have talked! Not now! And have you read their alleged alternate proposal? It's the same amount of DEFICIT spending, but diverted more towards tax cuts for the corporations who got us into this mess in the first place! Tax cuts that as early as the Reagan era failed to pump up the economy, but instead produced recession after recession!

John this was ok when your party was doing it for eight years. You know that your party is going down hill fast. Especially when you vp canidate doesnt care about the needs of her state. She doesnt want food assistance, the weatherization progam, no funding for the schools. Along with Sanford Jindal and perry this is the whart you are going to throw out their for President in 2012. How about the remarks Ingram made against your daughter. Put Rush and Coulter in their too. You think these are bunch of fine people to have in your Party. Your daughter has a lot more sense than you or any of these people will ever have.

Obama is a threat to the future of the USA.

Why does anyone still listen to this proven looser. Thank you Mr. McLame now go and sit down in one of your homes...... a nursing home preferably.

BITTER. OLD. MAN.

you are a threat to the nation and the world, and your vice president choice was a threat to the nation and the world. keep away from power.

Is anyone surprised by this idiot?

McSlime...please SHUT UP and go away!

why wasn't it an outrage to spend billions on a war that was killing thousands of innocent people? When did it become such a bad thing to help people in our own country? We can give money away to everyone as long as they aren't American, but heaven forbid we help out Americans who are hurting, mmm case in point Katrina, the millions who have lost jobs have no insurance ect... Americans truly dislike each other...we have become a sad country...

Change doesn't come without resistance and the GOP seems to be resisting it all.

Senator McCain lost. He should just get over it. The American people
have already picked President Obama's plan over his. Oh wait. McCain didn't t have a plan. And by the way, where was McCain when Bush was spending a trillion dollars looking for non existent WMD during the Iraqui war?

McCain is an even more bitter old white man , than he was during campaign. What a JERK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No sir, Former President Bush was a threat to our nation. You supported him and his efforts to put the US in such a horrible state. That makes you an accomplice to "generational theft"!

Yes it is, we are selling out, giving up, and purposefully making HUGE mistakes. This will in 5 years not be the same America as we know it.

I have a real problem with his statement because if this money was going to fund the wars he wants to continue, he wouldn't say a word. I guess it was appropriate for our children and grandchildren to pay for that.
McCain's got alot of nerve on this because 1) he doesn't understand it, and 2) if it was a Republican putting forth such a budget, he would step in line and be the first to vote yes.
You know Senator McCain, all of this spending didn't start with President Obama. Just look at former President Bush and all of his spending.

You should have raised alarm when .G.Bush was in power and when you were cheerleader for Iraq war. President Obama is absoulately working very hard and doing a great job for American people. He has no choice but to spend money to get the economy moving. He has inherited broken economic fundamentals. So you must have patient, because we did not get here overnight.

Who keep asking Grandpa questions on the economy? Where was he during the past eight years??????????????????????????

I agree.

McCain is even a more bitter old white man , than he was during campaign. What a jer!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much Mr. who did not know how to pick his own VP. I hope President Obama do not listen to you.

No word on the staggering $1 Trillion our children and grandchildren will be paying for your War in Iraq, eh McCain?

mcsame need to get a life.

Surprise, surprise.

That flushing sound you hear is the country going down the drain and
both major parties have had a hand on the handle.

Senator Mccain the Only Threat to the Nation Sir is if you and Your Airhead VP Would have Won. And God for bid Something Happen to you we would of Been Stuck with Palin now That My Friend would have Been A Serious threat and Disaster!

The nonstop spending needs to stop. I can't afford it and neither can my great-great-great-great-grandchildren.

Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment.

Ah, yes, the peanut gallery chiming in. Hey, McCain...for someone who doesn't know as much as you'd like about the economy (do you know what the word means?), you certainly are making a lot of comments about it without offering any real alternatives. There are already accountability and visibility provisions in the stimulus bill, and your favorite, defense, didn't get their budgets cut, so pipe down!

Your previous boss, you know, President Bush, put us much further into debt than all previous Presidents combined! Mr. Keating Five, your help in de-regulating business and the financial industry helped put us IN this mess. And you would have kept our forces in Iraq for 100 years (at how many billions a month?), not to mention we'd probably be at war with Iran by now, as well if you had been elected.

Why not call upon your wife for some fiscal responsibility...

Jeez, these Republicans...They don't give a darn about future generations, unless it's their own sons & daughters, and even that is in question. The Bush Administration adn the Republican Congress inherited a surplus from Clinton, and turned into massive debt. Well, at least they won't have to worry about the future of the 5,000 young men and women who gave their lives in Bush's war.

Right on, John. I expected a huge increase in government spending once BHO took office, but the scale of what's actually occurred is unbelievable. In a year, Obama (with allies Reid and Pelosi) are taking this country's deficit from 2.5% of GDP to over 12%, levels not seen since toward the end of World War II!

McCain...I didn't believe in him then...I don't believe in him NOW!

Just shut up you miserable old man. you lost the election, you ran a horrible campaign, your party has bankrupted our country over 8 years. Just shut up and go away

And just what would you have done if you had been elected, John?

All you offered up during the campaign was more of what Bush did.

That doesn't seem to be working out so good for the country, does it!?

The real threat to the nation would have been YOU getting elected!

Face Reality, Mc Cain:

WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, REJECTED YOU, REJECTED THE CONSERVATIVE IDEOGY OF "LET THE RICH GET RICHER", AND REJECTED THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WHICH HAS NOTHING TO OFFER FOR OUR FUTURE!!!

JOHN! THE ELECTION IS OVER!!!!!! YOU LOST !!!!!! EITHER HELP FIX THE MESS YOU HELPED TO CREATE – OR SHUT UP AND GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!!

CHANGE HAS COME AND WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE CONFIDENCE IN OUR NEW LEADERSHIP!!!!

NOBODY CARES IN THE SLIGHTEST WHAT JOHN MCCAIN THINKS OF OBAMA'S BUDGET. MCCAIN IS REPUBLICAN AND REPUBLICANS HAVE UTTERLY DESTROYED THE GLOBAL ECONOMY OVER THE LAST 8 YEARS.

JOHN MCCAIN. GO. AWAY.

Senator John McCain, have your son or Wife return the money back that they aquired from the failed NV State bank? I don't want to refer to them as Crooks, Theives, Liars and some more choice words...

In other words let's clean your own house first.

Oh please – I'm no fan of the budget and increased deficit, but the Republicans, led my McCain, would be in exactly the same boat. The only difference is that the pork on the stimulus package would be Republican flavored instead of Democrat. BOTH sides haven't the foggiest notion of what "fiscal responsibility" actually entails.

Didn't AIG underwrite McCain's "Reform Institute?"

This coming from the guy who signed off on Bush's multi-trillion dollar war in Iraq that was paid for EXCLUSIVELY with money borrowed from China. Oh, that's right, in the world of the GOP, wars are paid for with magic pixie money?

Thank you, John, for being a strong voice, as always. My children do not deserve to pay for this mess for the rest of their lives.

THANK YOU MR. McCAIN

You, Mr. McCain need to go away....you lost the election...Obama won and he won by running on exactly the budget you are talking about.
Go away if you are not going to be productive.
I'm so sick and tired of the politics being played by the media and politicians instead of working with the President in this HUGE mess.
It amazes me how every one is so readily available to criticize but no one is willing to work together or come up with another solution.

This guy should be our President. Not the fake we have now. Obama has no political power period, and he is way over his head.

Who actually cares what McCain thinks! He voted in lock step with his man, Bush! And so he is as responsible for the mess we are in as that administration! As well, he lost! Obama won!

Go find a rocking chair, McCain! Or better yet....just hide and watch... and see what a real president can do for this country! In the mean time, just be Quiet... for God's sake!

The Obama Budget is not nearly as much of a threat to the nation as a McCain Presidency would have been.

The TREAT came from JOHN MCCAIN, as he MARCHED INTO IRAQ!

What blows me away is not only the idiocy of Geithner adding the provision in the TARP for AIG bonuses, but that the Republicans have absolutely no conscience regarding trying to turn this economic into a power-grab.

Like McCain would have done anything different than Bush (tax cuts for the wealthy, in the hopes of failed tinkle-down, voodoo economics somehow creating jobs and stabilizing the economy).

What we need is some intelligence – and some elected leaders who really understand the situation, especially the need to quit coddling the financial institutions and wealthy of this country.

Yawn. John McCain rubber-stamped EVERY record Bush deficit budget and supported Bush's practice of not counting the trillion dollars wasted in Iraq as actual deficit.

Where have you been the past 8 years John? This problem didn't happen over night.

Oh yeah, you were in Bush's POCKET.

At this point....McCain just seems like a angry and lost "foot soldier" from the Ronnie Raygun era.

Are you serious John McCain? Your fear tactic and war first mentality is a threat to the nation. You lost. When will that sink in?

It's too bad that McCain supported the Bush economic policies that engaged in a policy of generational theft , otherwise he would have room to talk. I'm not buying this now.

Where was Mccain when Bush and the republicans were spending like there was no tomorrow? And, the deficit THEY created do not even include the cost of the Iraq/Afghanistan war.
Mccain, we realize what a ridiculous hypocrit you are and even you
admitted you did not know anything econonmics.
Just go away, Senator Mccain. We do not want to hear any more of your swiftboating.

And Senator McCain offers -–? a better plan? A different course should be charted? Great, but what? I am still waiting to hear a better plan but all I hear is negativity and nothing projected that could be better.

Just last year, Democrats were ranting about the possibility that we'd never recover from Bush's budget deficits and war spending and they've suddenly lost their tongues when Obama's will, at the very minimum, quadruple it.

Simply amazing. Politics – Working as intended.

Oh shut up!

I voted for John McCain, someone who knows how to work for a living.

When the Gop comes up with some other ideas insted of doing nothing maybe someone would listen to them besides their bible thumping followers.

McCain, I think the people are really getting tired of you. Why don't you retire and stay out of politics? You made such a fool out of yourself during the primaries. I am so tired of looking at your face as I did Liberman's. Get a life

Simmer down, old man. Take your pills and go see what your daughter thinks. She seems to have some sense.

McCain/Palin were a threat to our nation, and we voted you out! step aside, old man...

It's two wars and a Republican president who got us here, Senator.

You didn't seem too worried about the deficit from 2001 – 2008, McCain.

Thank God and the wisdom of the American people that McCain lost.

Oh, ok so the 1.2 trillion dollar budget he inherited from bush and you rethuglicans was okay john?? God, you rethuglicans are disgusting with your hypocrisy. Where was your criticism rethugs when bush bankrupted this country, lied to us about war and shredded the constitution?????

He still alive? Anyone care?