Romney Can't Name One McCain Accomplishment On Energy: UPDATED
By John Amato Tuesday Aug 05, 2008 3:10pm
With Blitzer:
BLITZER: All right, a serious charge. Can you cite one legislative accomplishment that Senator McCain produced during those 26 years in Washington, in order to achieve energy independence?
ROMNEY: Well, I'm not a historian that goes through all of the pieces of legislation John McCain has worked on.
Mitt's not a historian. Gotcha! Hey Mitt---did you miss the talking points memo?
Now the high comedy begins:
But let's talk about one piece of legislation that's pretty relevant, and that's the Bush energy plan, which Barack Obama voted in favor of. And John McCain looked at and it said, it's so larded-up with tax breaks and special incentives to oil companies and gas companies, John McCain voted no on that piece of legislation.
Romney throws George Bush under the bus. That is too much. It's a calculated move that McCain will take because he's backed almost everything Bush has done.
Update: Democrats.org:
And speaking of not being a historian, don't ask him for his opinion on anything because Mitt Romney ain't a lot of things.
Romney-McCain: Not the Kind of Leadership We'd Want, Either
Romney on Sanctuary Cities: "I'm Not a Mayor."
Romney on Immigration Proposal: "I'm No Legislator."...Keep reading...
Login or Register to post comments.
I can't fault Mitt here because I can't think of one either.
Mitt has no idea what he is talking about. Damn, that man scares me. Remember when he confronted that reporter who had the audacity to ask him a legitimate question? He seem arrogant, snide and (gasp!) elitist.
He lowered the ambient temperature in ALL SEVEN of his houses from a toasty 80 down to 75...
His Anti-Accomplishments:
Equal pay
The war
The G.I bill (didn't even show up and then lied that he did)
MLK day (lied that he did)
Sure Shitt, whatever you say. Your own party thinks that you're a total fraud and phony.....this time they're spot on.
Don't forget when Romney traveled the country with the family dog in a carrier on the top of his station wagon. Classy. And he claimed the dog loved it!
What a ticket.
Gone Insane/Shit Onmey
Biggest Accomplishment
Covering Viagra but not birth control
Well he needs it coverd to keep up with Cindy
"John McCain looked at and it said, it’s so larded-up with tax breaks and special incentives to oil companies and gas companies, John McCain voted no on that piece of legislation."
Really, Wolf? Something tells me that's not quite how it went down.
Did Obama really vote for that? Is he going to be for bombing Iran next?
I don't remember ever taking a history class that covered "a year or two ago".
Romney: 'Ehhh, ahhh, errr, can I get back to you on that... BTW, I saw Obama
and Georgie sittin in a tree... k.i.s.s.i.n.g. blah blah blah'... Hey Rummy, why don't you go tie your dog to the station wagon roof... Or better yet ya freakin cardboard cutout, just STFU! JD
Shame once again Wolf tunred into a zombie, never bothereing to bring up the point that Mitt failed to answer the question he posed. And it was a good question and a good point: Mc Cain complains about the lack of progress made in the area of energy over the last 30 years. And he was a part of that non action for 26 of those 30 years. Thus, McCain beef is with himself- which Obama was right to point out. Why Obama does not keep hammering that point home- among many others- is beyond me. Obama keeps insisting the American public is smart and can see through the petty antics (tire guages) of McCain. Obama is wrong. His " high road" campaign is the same on Kerry traveled down. And it leads to a dead end.
This may be a bit OT, but has anyone heard if Cindy McCain won the Miss Buffalo Chip contest last night?
Some reporter on tv just said that one of McCain's strengths is that he has had more experience than Sen. Obama. Well I hope so, he's lived about 24 more years than Sen. Obama.
Mitt could have said that Sen. McCain voted to invade Iraq and that move was supposed to help with our energy problem but the Iraqis wouldn't hand over their oil to us as we had planned.
Am I the only one who picked up on his attempt to slime Obama by associating him with Bush (while simultaneously distancing McCain)?
And can anyone verify his claim? I get the feeling he's lying, but I'd like some confirmation.
Whop!!!
There goes Mitt's place as VP for McCain.
These guys are shameless.
Rudy 911 is on the Situation Room right now. Let's see what he spews.
Have the Romney's boys started serving the military yet.
After all, he said his boys weren't serving because they were "helping" him campaign for president.
Romney is a cult follower.
That’s odd. I can’t name one McSame accomplishment on energy either. Ummm. Oh, oh, oh. He voted to give the oil companies huge tax breaks. Does that count?
expose@18, You got that right. I'm tired of seeing these pro-war supporters telling us how the surge ie working. If so, why don't they join?
I am glad someone else has the stomach to watch the monotone, flat-line emotive, android Blitzer and listen to his "best team" self-stroke message every five minutes. Just as soon watch two flies fuck, to borrow a phrase...
Rudy just did a stupid thing. He was asked the same question Mitt was asked yesterday. But Rudy piped up with his answer in a nano second. Wolf said well, at least you had an answer. Romney didn't have one yesterday. Instead of Rudy letting it go at that, he chimed in with, Maybe I watched your show yesterday. By saying that he gave himself away as being prepared with an answer rather than leaving it that his answer he gave was well known.
I'd like to know about that vote too. Seems to me Obama hasn't had an opportunity to vote on a Bush energy bill.
pissed@23, Right on! At least Rudy911 didn't mention 911, did I mention 911?
If Romney has no clue what McCain's done sitting on his ass in the Senate all those years, then he has no right to constantly be brought in to sing McCain's praises and of his imagined accomplishements.
Of course, we all know that this snake called Romney is desperately auditioning for the role of McLame's VP...this horse's ass will do or say anything to get himself and his magical underwear into the White House!
I don't even watch CNN anymore because I was sick of seeing this plastic, bobble-headed doushebag on all the time licking McInsane's bung for the VP job!
devildog21 @ 24:
Yes he did.
"Like Mr. Obama, Mrs. Clinton accepts contributions from employees of oil companies. But she has not made a case of it in a commercial, as he did. The energy bill referred to was passed in 2005, and Mr. Obama did vote for it, arguing that it would help his home state because it encouraged ethanol. He has since been critical of the bill."
NYT- April 2008
actually, I have to say that yes, it's somewhat funny that Mitt is denegrating the Bush energy plan.
That does not however offset Romney's point as to why it was that Obama voted for it.
we didn't ask about all of his legislation of 26 yrs. just the energy policies to reduce dependence of oil..if you don't just say that
Romney not being able to recall any accomplishments McSame has made on the environment reminds me of when the late Tim Russert questioned David Duke in 1991 regarding some economic statistics that he couldn't come up with. Fools!
I canceled cable TV today - thanks for letting me know I made the correct choice, C&L!
Obama in his own words why he voted for the cheney energy bill
June 29, 2005
He's not a historian, but I bet Romney could tell you all about how Israelites crossed the Atlantic to America thousands of years ago, and how there were horses in North America long before the Europeans came over. At least, that's what the Book of Mormon says.
Now that just wasn't fair. Romney goes on CNN expecting Blitzer to ask his usual soft and weak questions without follow-ups and Blitzer hits him with "name one accomplishment". What in the hell does Blitzer think he is? A journalist?
blitzer has been pushing back against the annoying rhetoric of the mccain surrogates. he was cutting giuliani earlier to keep him focused on anwering the question instead of turning every sentence to a hit against obama. the guy famous for a noun, verb, 9/11, is at it again.
Mittins Wromknee is such a dolt I can't even watch him, he's like a dumb Danforth Quayle
Actually, VP for Governor Grin (Romney) would give the Dems the best crooked talking, flip flopping duo in political history.
By the way every Repub candidate and "strategist" has to have had perma-grin surgery. I swear that they would smile while reading the obituaries. Now that they found a sense of humor look for on-air face cracking.
this is another reason why the obama campaign must get on its collective knees and pray to all that is holy that mccain chooses mitt omnipostion
he brings nothing to mccain, and mccain is in desperate need
video of obama answering a question on the 2005 energy bill. 2:18 minutes into the interview.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Ralston_vs_Obama.html#comments
Mitt Romney = Leonard "Bones" McCoy
Dammit Jim!
oraknabo @ 40:
dang you beat me to it.
although this is a thread on how pathetic romney is as a surrogate, it must be mentioned just how god awful bad bush's energy bill is.
and, yes, obama voted for it.
This energy bill will do nothing to address America’s energy problems; rather, it will make matters worse. The United States is one of the largest producers of energy—for example, we are the third-largest producer of crude oil in the world—so our problem is not that we don’t produce enough energy, but that our rates of consumption are among the highest of all countries. Our economic competitors in Europe and Asia typically use half the energy per person than we do, which helps explain why the United States alone uses 25% of the world’s energy every day. Reflecting the fact that energy companies helped write the legislation, the energy bill lavishes these lucrative corporations with billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies, while doing little to curb energy demand.
In addition to providing billions of dollars to already wealthy oil, nuclear and coal companies, the energy bill abandons consumers by repealing the Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA), one of the most effective consumer and protection laws governing the power sector. With this law now gone, investment banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and oil companies will now be allowed to own utilities, giving these new corporate owners license to raid the utilities’ guaranteed revenue streams for use in leveraging non-utility acquisitions, opening the door to price-gouging of ratepayers.
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/electricity/energybill...
so, in some regards, i agree with mitt ("special incentives to oil companies and gas companies"). fuck, i hate it when that happens.
PT 1….
John McCain has received two million dollars from the oil industry, and now he want to give them a four Billion dollars tax break, when they are raking- in record profits on the shoulders of America. So, John McCain said, “Our dangerous dependence on foreign oil has been thirty years in the making, and was caused by the failure of politicians in Washington to think long-term about the future of the country.” What John McCain neglected to mention was that during those thirty years, he was in Washington for twenty-six of them. And in all that time, he did little to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Not to mention, that out of the last twenty eight years, twenty of those years, our nation energy policies were manipulated by an oil man in the Whitehouse representing his party interest (George Sr.12 years. George Jr.8 years) that have all but destroyed our Country.
Here is some straight talk. When John McCain was running in the Republican primary he never mention or addressed anything about this nation energy problems. After the primary, he saw that Barack Obama energy position along with his other ideas was getting footage so he flip-flopped, and quickly turned into Mitt Romney. The Straight Talk express at its best. Although Jack Cafferty is one of my favorite reporters in the media today, they are wrong! So here my question to you: Why do Jack Cafferty and Politico David Paul Kuhn and Kenneth along with countless others in the news media find it so amusing to report on Barack Obama supposedly flip-flopping and gaffes, when John McCain have twisted on more issues to have started a tornado with his silly shenanigans, then any Politician in recent history beside Mitt Romney, not to mention his long list of gaffes. Yet, they fail to give equal negative coverage. Can I be sensing media bias? After all, Barack Obama has received 72% negative coverage, when they have reported on him. WHY? America has to stop acting like they don't know the difference between right and wrong. Thus, John McCain campaign is represented by lies instead of real ideas and he has a serious character issues to say the least!
Finally, there are those who say that John McCain’s new ad depicts Barack Obama as trying to present himself as a messiah, well I beg to differ. I believe that John McCain new ad tries to depict Barack Obama as being as old as Moses, when John McCain himself is old enough to have been Moses childhood buddy!
damn it, jim ...
pinkobait @ 41:
shoot. knew i shouldn't have skipped to the bottom.
Guess McCain's thugs are really busy pulling stuff that is damaging. Video no longer available.
"Seems to me Obama hasn’t had an opportunity to vote on a Bush energy bill"
I thought invading Iraq was Bush's energy bill.
And a heckuva bill it is...
I know what Romney is. He's a real slick Willy, or should I say "Mitty," with real greasy, slicked back hair. I can't stand that guy.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147&hl=en This video may piss you off a bit, we are full of shit when it comes to oil, what dicks...............
John McCain: 26 years in the Senate DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
What's next?
I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer.
I'm a doctor, not a psychiatrist.
I'm a doctor, not a mechanic.
I'm a doctor, not an escalator
I'm a doctor, not an engineer.
I'm a doctor, not a coal miner.
I'm a surgeon, not a moon shuttle conductor.
I'm not a magician, just an old country doctor.
Oh yeah, I'm not a doctor either.
E Pleb Neesta
GODISNOWHERE
Blessed are the cheese makers.
Romney doesn't know (or care) about the law either - after all, he violated the state constitution's residency requirements by running for governor of Mass.
Well, like George Bush, Romney is an authority on animal cruelty. That should qualify him for a slot as VP and president thereafter, when McOldman kicks the bucket (of natural causes) midway through his first term.
um, the appropriate response is:
and here are the 579 times that John McCain voted with Bush, many of which include massive tax breaks for his friends in the oil business...
i'm working on assumptions here. this is the exception for McCain, right? there are many counter-examples?
if so, learn 'em (i'm lazy and useless) and have 'em ready and use them over, and over, and over, and over, and call up Mitt again, and list them off for Mitt.
is it not this easy, folks? am i just missing something?
http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/08/dont_ask_mitt_h.php
Look this website is one good reason on why Romney shouldnt be in politics, all he has to say is "Im not a blah blah blah." and skips the question. Do we really want somebody in our government if the best thing he can do is argue about how he isn't anything besides a governor. About McCain's energy accomplishment, I believe he is one of those folks who is a global warming non-believer even though the signs are very clear. I can't blame Romney for not having an answer but he should not use his "Im not a blah blah blah." on everything he has no answer for, I mean seriously is this why these guys go to school? Oh where oh where have our "good" polititians gone?
Login or Register to post comments.