John McCain said that, if he were President, he would fire Chris Cox, the SEC Chief.

The only problem is:

No President is able to do this.

http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/18/mccain-confused-says-he%E2%80%99d-%E2%80%9Cfire%E2%80%9D-sec-chief-even-though-by-law-he-couldn%E2%80%99t/

Oops!

At least we know we'll have an intelligent leader if he gets Elected

He can't and won't do any ANY of the things he promises, for one because his promises change from day to day but after that, any man who believes that the middle class income is 5,000,000 a year is not even in reality. So how can he do anything real?

Intelligence doesn't always translate into common sense, or what's right for the American people as a whole.

Plus, he's a notorious flip-flopper.

He nose is so firmly implanted into Bush's ass, it would take a surgeon to extract it!

true.

BTW

The Fed Chairman is Bernanke.

McCain said he would fire Chris Cox, the SEC Chief.

Not the Fed Chairman.

The title might be wrong, but the initial post is correct.

'Fed Chairman' came up in my Google search.

nice edit there.



kinda covers your tracks when commenting on intelligence, huh?


just saying.......

the title of your thread might just give people the wrong impression.

we wouldn't want that.


From now on I know to quote you.


love that edit.

That doesn't excuse the fact that McCain didn't know that a President can't fire an SEC Chief.

Which means he should think before opening his big yap.

So should you.

He nose is so firmly implanted into Bush's ass, it would take a surgeon to extract it!
Edited by mnhiker on Mon 09/22/08 09:59 PM


hey braniac, this makes you believeable, huh?


by the way, it's 'his', not 'he'.






I want him fired too, but not nobama, as he can stay where he is in the Congress.

Let him fire the SEC chief.

send him an e-mail.


I bet he won't listen unless you send him a check for $25,000.

oh, yeah, I forgot! the free lunch crowd doesn't support nobama : the guys at freddie and fannie do..

good thing they got bailed out before the election, huh? They are flush with cash now.



nobama 2008.

Obama's plan makes a lot more sense:

"Now that this disaster has hit, John McCain is calling for the firing of the SEC commissioner. Well, here's what I say," Mr. Obama told the cheering crowd. "In 47 days, you can fire the whole trickle-down, on-your-own, look-the-other-way crowd in Washington who have led us down this disastrous path."

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08263/913377-176.stm

The Bush Administration has almost destroyed the economy,so why give the Republicans another 4 years?

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

so your saying obama would fire himself? cause he's done nothing but look out for himself since he's been in congress

He was talking about the Bush Administration.

Here's something interesting on the Cox and McCain relationship. It's by George F. Will a conservative commentator. This guy understands what real conservatism is about.

McCain Loses His Head
By George F. Will
Tuesday, September 23, 2008; Page A21

"The queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she said without even looking around."

-- "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama.

Channeling his inner Queen of Hearts, John McCain furiously, and apparently without even looking around at facts, said Chris Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, should be decapitated. This childish reflex provoked the Wall Street Journal to editorialize that "McCain untethered" -- disconnected from knowledge and principle -- had made a "false and deeply unfair" attack on Cox that was "unpresidential" and demonstrated that McCain "doesn't understand what's happening on Wall Street any better than Barack Obama does."

To read the Journal's details about the depths of McCain's shallowness on the subject of Cox's chairmanship, see "McCain's Scapegoat" (Sept. 19, Page A22). Then consider McCain's characteristic accusation that Cox "has betrayed the public's trust."

Perhaps an old antagonism is involved in McCain's fact-free slander. His most conspicuous economic adviser is Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who previously headed the Congressional Budget Office. There he was an impediment to conservatives, including then-Rep. Cox, who, as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, persistently tried and generally failed to enlist CBO support for "dynamic scoring" that would estimate the economic growth effects of proposed tax cuts.

In any case, McCain's smear -- that Cox "betrayed the public's trust" -- is a harbinger of a McCain presidency. For McCain, politics is always operatic, pitting people who agree with him against those who are "corrupt" or "betray the public's trust," two categories that seem to be exhaustive -- there are no other people. McCain's Manichaean worldview drove him to his signature legislative achievement, the McCain-Feingold law's restrictions on campaigning. Today, his campaign is creatively finding interstices in laws intended to restrict campaign giving and spending. (For details, see The Post of Sept. 17, Page A4; and the New York Times of Sept. 20, Page One.)

By a Gresham's Law of political discourse, McCain's Queen of Hearts intervention in the opaque financial crisis overshadowed a solid conservative complaint from the Republican Study Committee, chaired by Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, the RSC decried the improvised torrent of bailouts as a "dangerous and unmistakable precedent for the federal government both to be looked to and indeed relied upon to save private sector companies from the consequences of their poor economic decisions." This letter, listing just $650 billion of the perhaps more than $1 trillion in new federal exposures to risk, was sent while McCain's campaign, characteristically substituting vehemence for coherence, was airing an ad warning that Obama favors "massive government, billions in spending increases."

The political left always aims to expand the permeation of economic life by politics. Today, the efficient means to that end is government control of capital. So, is not McCain's party now conducting the most leftist administration in American history? The New Deal never acted so precipitously on such a scale. Treasury Secretary Paulson, asked about conservative complaints that his rescue program amounts to socialism, said, essentially: This is not socialism, this is necessary. That non sequitur might be politically necessary, but remember that government control of capital is government control of capitalism. Does McCain have qualms about this, or only quarrels?

On "60 Minutes" Sunday evening, McCain, saying "this may sound a little unusual," said that he would like to replace Cox with Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic attorney general of New York who is the son of former governor Mario Cuomo. McCain explained that Cuomo has "respect" and "prestige" and could "lend some bipartisanship." Conservatives have been warned.

Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial selections. But the more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either.

It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?

it is Congress that can fire the SEC Chair.

nobama can do that where he is now.

So could McCain.

think they will?

not with the broken Reid and comrade peloshky paralyzed like deer in the headlights of clintonomics run away train of regurgitated free lunch programs like the eased restrictions on mortgage lending requirements, which the libtard losrt Congress has yet to fix on their watch.

It's your baby.


get to work.


call your congresspersn and Senator and get it done.


or sit back and add the 700 billion bailout package and pork it up for more free lunches.


Instead, you all sit there like mondday morning quarterbacks whining about bush.


It is clear to America that the looney left likes to whib=ne and point fingers instead of working on fixing anything that the right might remotely benefit from as a coincidence.


just saying as I look at the snared predator floundering in a pit.

Firing Cox wouldn't accomplish a damned thing.

No one can work effectively without tools. Without the ability to regulate and exercise over-sight how was he suppose to keep things in check. The republican congress took away those tools. Now to appease idiots and create a scapegoat they say "Fire Cox" loudly but quietly out of the other side of their mouths they say "keep doing business as usual" oh and let's reward those that ran business into the ground by assuming their debt.

Are the American people really that stupid?

yup.

proof is that our elected officials are doing squat about anything until the game breaks, and even now, they are blaming themselves by blaming the other side of the aisle.

tell them to get busy right now.

or did they all quit their jobs and join the media talking heads in bloviating the days away?


Both mc cain and obama are in Congress.

You libs have the chair in both houses.

have for almost t2wo years.

In these last two year the mess showed up, huh?


while your socialist buddies sit back paralyzed, the market continues to tank.


yup. put a libtard in the White House.

Smoke this... It is a matter of public record that the man you love to hate... Yes the bush himself... warned this democratic congress that clouds were on the horizon...

Yet they continued to raid the till and ignore the comming storm.

It is also a matter of public record that McCain also attempted to make a change in this system but when he extended his hand to Obama for bi-partisian support it might as well of been invisible... (guess it didn't have that green color so many politicians like.)