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Sen. John McCain today called the government shutdown and debt limit showdown “an agonizing odyssey” and “one of the more shameful chapters of the years I have spent in the Senate.” He added that he hoped it laid the groundwork for more bipartisan negotiations in the future.

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4 replies on “McCain: Shutdown Was “One of the More Shameful Chapters of the Years I Have Spent in the Senate””

  1. Yet Sen McCain has no problem bashing the presidet on foreign policy/procedure matters no matter how delicate or fluid the situation may be. He hasbeen part of the relentless, remorseless chorus of GOP opposition. If he will change, let it be now.

  2. It is hard to have negotiations when one side has “my way or the highway”attitudes and gets up in front of everyone and say they will not negotiate.

  3. If the president had agreed to negotiate with the hostage takers this time we would be doing this every couple of months. By calling their bluff he insured that they will think twice before they follow their lunatic fringe over the cliff again. He is to be commended for his resolute stance. BTW, in case the Republicans ever won the presidency again they would have been on the receiving end of the same tactic. The TEA Party extremists aren’t smart enough to remember how badly the previous shutdown worked out for them but hopefully they have been taught a lesson that they won’t soon forget.

    If the had picked off the ACA this time they would have been going after Medicare in January and Social Security the next time until they had rolled back the entire New Deal which is what their corporate sponsors on Wall Street want.

    The estimate from S&P is that this shutdown cost us $24 billion. How is that fiscally responsible? Anyone who believes that Republicans care about the deficit is just ignoring the facts. They are only using their feigned concern about the national debt to attack programs that they call “entitlements”.

    The only winner in this is Ted Cruz who now has a list of 2 million potential donors and has firmly established himself as the head of the wingnut faction of the Republican Party.

  4. What was shameful was McCain not supporting the folks who were trying to save America from Obamacare.

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