{"id":7575,"date":"2009-02-03T12:14:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T17:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7575"},"modified":"2009-02-03T12:14:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T17:14:04","slug":"mccain-refuses-bite-at-s-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7575","title":{"rendered":"McCain refuses bite at s*** sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Personally, I&#8217;m shocked (and I remain skeptical) at the email I got from John McCain. All of his talk about bi-partisanship had me worried that he was ready to take his bite of the Obama&#8217;s shit sandwich. But then I got this email from him this morning;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/mccain-shit-sandwich.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/mccain-shit-sandwich.jpg?resize=500%2C312\" alt=\"\" title=\"mccain-shit-sandwich\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/mccain-shit-sandwich.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/mccain-shit-sandwich.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn the email, McCain says that he appreciates Obama&#8217;s reaching across the aisle to Republicans, but that the bill is so full of pork that he won&#8217;t bite.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI believe we need to evaluate every bit of spending in this stimulus proposal with one important criteria &#8211; does it really stimulate the economy and help create jobs &#8211; if the answer is no, it does not belong in a so-called stimulus package. Furthermore, the stimulus must include significant direct relief to American workers in the form of payroll tax cuts and programs to help homeowners keep their homes. Finally, we need an end game to this stimulus so that when our economy recovers, these spending programs do not remain permanent and saddle our children with a skyrocketing national debt. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally, a bipartisan McCain I get on board with &#8211; now if he can just hold the line for four more years without folding like a Kmart lawn chair. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.countryfirstpac.com\/petition\/economic.aspx\">link to sign his petition is here<\/a> if you&#8217;re so inclined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personally, I&#8217;m shocked (and I remain skeptical) at the email I got from John McCain. All of his talk about bi-partisanship had me worried that he was ready to take his bite of the Obama&#8217;s shit sandwich. But then I got this email from him this morning; In the email, McCain says that he appreciates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-1Yb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}