McCain: Time for Republicans to get started on health care reform (CHOKE, SNORT, and NOSTRIL SPURT)

[grantcart]

Astonishingly Senator McCain is now calling on Republicans to come up with a health care reform agenda, implying that they don't have one.

Apparently the full blown media debate, tea bagging demostrators, multi million dollar industry ad campaigns, Presidential addresses, town halls and press conferences did not alert the Republicans and its last presidential nominee that the issue has been of some interest to just about everyone for the last 6 months.

Now that is effective napping!

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

GOP needs its own health care reform agenda, McCain says

WASHINGTON (CNN) – As the national debate over health care reform is set to enter a new phase with next week’s scheduled vote in the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, says his party needs to crystallize its own positive agenda for health care reform.

“We Republicans need to come up with our agenda,” the former GOP presidential hopeful says in an interview that airs Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “And we need to do it so that there is a viable alternative to this . And it has to do with things that are not associated with government-controlled health care in America.

[MadMaddie]

1. The Repugs are always late aren't they? With leaders like McCain

and Rush they can expect to be in the wilderness for a long, long time.

[timeforpeace]

10. To be fair Obama and the Dems said they had it covered. If they had come through

he wouldn't be spouting off.

[MadMaddie]

14. It's not that they didn't come through

it's that the Dems were trying to include the Repugs in the conversation.

[Catshrink]

2. So McCain says they aren't the party of no

they're the party of D'OH!

[C_U_L8R]

3. day late and a dollar short

who needs them anyway

[and-justice-for-all]

4. Why? and FAIL...nt

[babylonsister]

5. Jeebus, has he been hibernating? NOW he's 'concerned'? nt

[Duke Newcombe]

6. And who wants to bet...

that the clueless M$M just falls ALL over them for their "wonderful" plan.

[uponit7771]

7. Quinipac: 64% of Americans disapprove of republicans and 25% approve....that's Bush like numbers

[IndianaGreen]

8. GOP already has the Baucus bill

which was written by the industry.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

9. *zing*

[kestrel91316]

11. EPIC FAIL.

[johnaries]

12. Let me guess - it will have something to do with tax cuts..... n/t

[grantcart]

13. "surging tax cuts"

[boppers]

15. Surging Tax Cuts with Tort reforms!

Sounds like a dessert item at a fun restaurant.

[rasputin1952]

16. One of his more lucid moments?

They're pretty rare...:D

[POAS]

17. Sorry, I just got up from my nap. What's this about health care?

Did I miss something?

[DFW]

18. Their "own positive agenda for health care reform?"

They didn't seem to think it was worthy of attention the 8 years they held the White House. Those were 8 years
during which McCain was in the Senate. Not only did they not have a "positive agenda" for health care reform,
they had NO agenda for health care reform or any other kind of reform.

Now, suddenly, when a Democratic president says, "the time has now come," McCain suddenly thinks his party needs
to come up with a "positive agenda" where before they weren't interested. What McCain obviously misses is that
where the Democrats have been working on this issue intensively, the Republicans never even considered it an
issue. Other than "NO!" the Republican Party has no agenda on health care, let alone one that could be remotely
considered as "positive." McCain had better get busy on this one by himself, because as far as a positive health
care agenda goes, his party isn't even on the radar yet.

[nxylas]

19. I think he knows people are interested

I think his belated realisation is that simply saying "NObama!" to everything does not help the Republicans look like a credible alternative government. In this respect, he's ahead of the goddamn librul media by, I predict, several months.

[goclark]

20. Wow ~ Rip Van McCain woke up!

Somebody must have told him he has been lost in the 60's for years.

At least he didn't say something Mean.

That is two "nice and sane" statements in one week -- first he was respectful of Obama for winning the Peace Prize, then this....

Wow! You get 'um Rip Van Mc Cain -- keep um coming!

[grantcart]

23. lol

[goclark]

25. Watch Rip fall asleep again

:fistbump:

[Wednesdays]

21. Now, that's rich.

The repugs control all branches of federal government from January 2001 through January 2007, and NOW they're getting started on health care reform? :rofl:

[GoCubsGo]

22. So, Johnny Boy...

You now ADMIT that your party hasn't done a damn thing on health care reform up until now? Thank you very much for being honest for once.

[Orsino]

24. Sen. McCain understands the imperative.

The GOP must start pretending to give a damn immediately. :eyes: