At Least He’s Good For Something: McCain To Filibuster Additional Cash For Clunkers Funding
Somebody has to stand up and kill this boondoggle before it goes any further, and it sounds like Senator McCain is that guy.
When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, tries to take up the House-passed “Cash for Clunkers” bill next week, he will hit a series of bipartisan road blocks.
Fox has learned that Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, will oppose any move to take up the House bill. Around here, we call that a filibuster.
McCain told Fox earlier today, “I not only wouldn’t vote for the extra two billion, I was opposed to the initial billion. ”
McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nominee who ran as a deficit hawk, said, “Within a few weeks we will see that this process was abused by speculators and people who took advantage of what is basically a huge government subsidy of corporations that they already own. “I can’t imagine that any taxpayer of America would have thought that the TARP, the financial recovery money, would be used now to subsidize the sale of automobiles in America.”
That’s an interesting way to look at this. The federal government owns two of the nation’s three major domestic automakers. Now the federal government is subsidizing auto sales. And that’s not a conflict of interest at all, is it?
I mean, this subsidy couldn’t possibly be about giving the companies the our political leaders have dumped hundreds of billions of dollars into a shot in the arm in order to provide the appearance of prosperity after said bailouts, could it? Is this really about economic stimulus and environmentalism, or are the proponents of the auto bailouts just using more of our tax dollars to make earlier expenditures of our tax dollars look wise?
That seems likely. Just like the “stimulus” spending spree was all about creating phony jobs numbers that the politicians could then tout in their news releases.
