Meghan McCain:‘I Just Don’t Understand’ The Economy but I Think A Second Stimulus ‘doesnt make sense

[SemiCharmedQuark]

Via Think Progress:

"This morning on Fox & Friends, John McCain’s daughter Meghan McCain railed against President Obama for signing the omnibus spending bill yesterday. “I think it’s so disappointing and it’s scary,” McCain said, referencing the earmarks in the bill. “Hope and change – what’s going on?” She added, “This second stimulus package that Nancy Pelosi’s talking about I think doesn’t make sense.”

Meghan McCain’s comments this morning are surprising, given that last night she was telling MSNBC host Rachel Maddow that she doesn’t know much about the economy. Here’s how McCain responded when Maddow asked her whether she agrees with her father’s call for a spending freeze:

McCAIN: Spending freeze? You know, econ – economic things, I said this last night on Hannity, I said is my — I didn’t even take econ in college. I don’t completely understand it so I’d hate to make a comment one way or the other. That’s – truly of all the things – I keep reading and I just don’t understand it.

Watch a compilation of the clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFd_TqAlEdA&eurl=http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/12/meghan-mccain-econ/

McCain should have stuck with her concession that she doesn’t know much about the economy. Instead, by coming out against a second stimulus, Meghan is contradicting the advice of Nobel Prize winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman. “We need a larger and better designed stimulus,” Stiglitz said yesterday. Krugman adds, “It’s rapidly becoming clear that yes, the was too small.”"


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/12/meghan-mccain-econ/

[Enrique]

1. just like dad n/t

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. She's a very pretty girl,

without much of a brain in her head.

She was on with Rachel last night, and comported herself as well as any Valley Girl ever did. Rachel was very gentle with her, very accommodating, very friendly.

But, the girl's hopelessly uninformed and dimwitted. Not an idea in her head, but she's pretty and she's John McCain's pretty daughter, so she gets airtime.

More puff. More nothing.

I can't wait until she's old enough to run for office. Another, what, three years until she's twenty-five?

Watch.

[Canuckistanian]

3. Oh , Lord, not another one

I hate these "instant Republican spokespeople".

Joe the fake-plumber, that 12-year old kid at CPAC, the Santelli & Cramer show, and now Victoria Johnson.

Don't Republicans have representatives that know what the fuck they're talking about?

[Ikonoklast]

4. My cats don't understand basic economic theory, either.

But they can smell stupid a mile away.

[snappyturtle]

7. Love it!

:rofl:

[LuvNewcastle]

5. She's Anna Nicole Smith on economics.

[notesdev]

6. Even a broken clock

is right twice a day.

[Dave From Canada]

8. She's right. The first stimulus hasn't even had time to really work yet.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

9. The point is that she admits she doesn't know anything about economics...then gives an uninformed

opinion when she knows she isn't going to be challenged.