Thursday, March 13, 2008

McCain one-year earmark ban bill fails

For taxpayers, in the short term the resounding defeat of Senator John McCain's bill to ban earmark spending is bad news. But on the campaign stump, it'll be a rallying cry for the Arizonan this fall--he can run against Congress, even though he's a senator.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama voted for the McCain bill, but it won't make a difference in the eyes of the voters--McCain can label them "band wagon hoppers" becaue he's been a longtime foe of earmark spending. Obama and Hillary have had their palms open for their pet earmarks during the years in the Senate.

Earlier today, McCain voted today in a largely symbolic vote to extend the Bush tax cuts, Obama and Clinton voted the other way. McCain once opposed the Bush tax cuts, leading Obama to call McCain a flip-flopper. Sorry, Barack, but when you are in the Senate more than three years, positions sometimes evolve. More importantly, McCain was wrong then, but he's right now, and he'll be the Republican nominee in November.

A vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama means higher taxes.

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