Sen John McCain, R-Ariz., countering a stinging political attack by President Obama on Monday that Republicans, led by President George W. Bush, are to blame for the recession having driven America's economic car into the proverbial ditch, told reporters Tuesday, "George Bush looks like a piker compared to what has taken place since President Obama has come into the presidency. He can keep 'B.I.O.B.' no matter what it is, 'Blame it on Bush' - he can keep that up. The American people are going to hold him accountable this November, not an administration that went out of power more than a year ago."

Obama, at a political event in Atlanta, Georgia, said this fall's elections come down to a choice, to go back to the failed GOP policies that got the country into an economic jam, or to press forward with his own policies that he says have worked, given the signs of economic recovery. It is clearly the Democrats' answer to a potent GOP attack line that it's time to stop Democrats' wasteful, reckless spending and reduce the skyrocketing deficit.

"These are the folks who were behind the steering wheel and drove the car into the ditch," Obama chided, "So we've had to put on our galoshes, we went down there in the mud. We've been pushing. We've been shoving. They've been standing back, watching, saying, 'You're not moving fast enough. You ain't doing it right. Why are you doing it that way?'...We're about to start driving forward again. They say, hold on, we want the keys back. You can't have the keys back -- you don't know how to drive!"

At a Tuesday news conference, McCain was joined by fiscal hawk Sen Tom Coburn, R-Okla., where the two unveiled the results of their latest investigation into stimulus projects, outlining an additional 100 that they say amount to nearly $2 billion in wasteful or duplicative use of taxpayer dollars from the $862 billion stimulus bill.

The McCain-Coburn report points out examples like $554,763 for the Forest Service to replace windows in a closed visitor center at Mount St. Helens; $1.9 million for international ant research; and $89,298 to replace a new sidewalk that leads to a ditch in Boynton, Okla.

Coburn admitted, "There's plenty of blame for everybody in Washington about where we find ourselves," but the senator said the American people want to hear ideas on how to get out of the economic ditch, not blame. "When you have those kinds of statements coming from the president, first of all, it's not leadership. It's looking backward. It's partisanship and politics and people want policy and freedom and progress. They don't want the same old thing."

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs defended the stimulus bill Tuesday and pointed to a recent report by McCain's 2008 presidential campaign economic consultant Mark Zandi who touted the successes of the stimulus, saying millions more jobs would have been lost without it.

http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/08/03/mccain-obama-stop-blaming-it-bush

said this fall's elections come down to a choice, to go back to the failed GOP policies that got the country into an economic jam, or to press forward with his own policies that he says have worked, given the signs of economic recovery


..Id love to see if this is an actual QUOTE( which I wouldnt presume since there are no quotations) or a paraphrase of what the President actually said. Its always difficult to make a final decision with EDITED information or information out of context.

Obama could care less about what happens to the Democrats in November. As a malignant narcissist, it's all about HIM and what he's managed to destroy (with their help) in only nineteen short months. He convinced them to fall on their sword for him and his agenda. They did. Now they've served their 'useful idiot' function and are disposable. He'll even look forward to their defeat as a 'positive', since it lets him 'clean house' and get rid of the so-called 'blue dog' 'craps and replace them with 'ideologically pure' Socialists and Communists. This, for him, is a 'purge'without bullets. I can only wish that his last name were 'Romanov' ...

hooray for socialists and communists...

I second that,,,

I wonder if they'll look into McCain's own shady past.

Economic recovery? I wen't in to apply for a part time job at a Kohl's here in Carson to make some extra money in addition to the job I was just hired for. They had 2,500 applications for 130 positions. That is bad for here in Carson City.

Things are getting worse not better.

Actually it will send a message that America is mad as hell with this Liberal Commie crap and his BS agenda.

You wouldn't be saying that if you lived in North Korea or Cuba.

Being a decorated war hero? Yup really shady.

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Please let me hit powerball so I can buy an island and make it own country.......dont have to hear this bitching and moaning about dems vs. rep because the both suck balls.........and the only thing they care about is lining their pockets and the only thing they can agree on is voting themselves a raise (the only vote most seem to show for).......sipping margaritas on the beach and not bothering to read the next policy that comes up for vote.......government, hoo ha good god what is good for absolutely nothing

the most dominant characteristic of the political game is the hypocrisy,,,,,ya know how they impeach someone for lying about adultery even though at least half of them are doing the same thing daily

or how they run a family values campaign although they had an affair and served their wife papers in a hospital bed,,,,lol


whats new,,,none of them are perfect, but too many voters expect or believe them to be,,,, I just want them to be doing their job

That Oblowme sure says some funny things when he's trying to take the heat off himself!! LOL.

Of course, anything coming from McCain is just BS too, he's another traitor to this country just like Oblowme is.

They arn't lying about it under oath. Not to mention he also got his a$$ disbarred.

He's a traitor? Seriously? You'r going to ****ing say that about a man who spent almost 6 years of his life(that he will never get back, ever) being tortured on a daily basis and left him with lifelong medical conditions and problems.

Senator McCain is a hero.

lol, uhuh, the old its less of a lie if its not under oath rationale,,,

they lie to their WIVES and their FAMILIES, but thats not nearly as bad as lying to a grand jury of strangers,,lol

liars impeaching liars for lying,, Id say , whomever they are lying to, that pretty much makes them a bit hypocritical

well, we werent there, there are 'stories' on both sides of that equation,,,some that he was tortured into giving up information, some that he was treated mush less harshly than those without 'connections'

none of us were there, I give him the benefit of the doubt, but I dont know whether he was a hero or just survived