Stop it John McCain! We've Got to Fix the Budget Now, Not Later

McCain is upset because there are still countries in the middle east that we haven't invaded, how dare they cut the military budget? The nut case won't lift a finger to stop the illegal invasion of his own state but he will do his best to get us involved in more wars half way around the world. The only question is his motive. Is it he is owned by the military industrial complex, is it for the oil, or is he such a complete whack job that he is still trying to make up for our loss in Vietnam? No matter what he is the worst possible person to have on our armed forces committee and certainly shouldn't be allowed to make military commitments to other countries. If McCain hadn't been the alternative I would be embarrassed to admit I voted for Obama, but given the same choice again I would still go with Obama.

Retire McCain you are an embarrassment as a politician!

John McCain is the biggest idiot republican i have ever heard speak. He is a war monger,, a UFC hater (tried to ban UFC unless they made it safer) why is the UFC a concern of McCain? the UFC should do as they please (free country). He doesn't want to actually cut spending, he wanted to stay in Iraq, bomb Iran and he was a supporter of SOPA & PIPA.
This guy is a looney old idiot who has no idea of what freedom and the constitution stand for. And this is coming from me a conservative.

This was a statement by the 34th President of the United States, April 16, 1953:
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" Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientist, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953.

The old fool is obviously blind to the debt "abyss" our nation finds itself in. He should be asked to retire for the good of the nation.

Excellent commentary. Budget cuts/reduction of spending needs to occur in whole budget intelligently. Congress has proved it can't talk intelligently so flat cuts are necessary. Re mililtary cuts, Congress has insisted on including and paying for major projects in the Pentagon's budget with taxpayer money that the military said it didn't want or need. Why don't we start with cutting those?

The people of Arizona should start a petition to recall McCain. The US military budget is higher than all the other nations of the world combined. Only interventionists, nation builders and Zionist warmongers want the budget that high so they can continue and expand their wars. Come home America, come home.

congress is so spineless across the board cuts are the only way they can cut anything, no matter how rediculously high or defense budget is. Heavy forbid a millionare be asked to pay 3% higher tax rate on his income over 250,000.00 while the country has to pay so much just to service our national debt. Greed was never so prevolent in our nation before this era.

Those who claim that Republicans are deficit hawks who aren't hypocrites can shut up now.

I have a few words on the subject of "vital programs". Let's just start with the fact that every program that gets cuts, there are people that will say "save my program" or "please not my program". Every program is vital to someone but the defense department has spent way more than you want to know on projects like the F-35 with all it's problems and the finally functional Osprey program. As a retired military member, I would say that the cuts to the military to streamline them with today's fights makes sense. McCain doesn't need to defend them now. I understand his passion, but let these things run their course. We will be able to #$%$ the viability of the military after a few yrs and make changes to funding after a more stable economic picture emerges. Enough of the "Not in my backyard campaigns". Please let it go John!

cut the overall budget....then decide priorities. use metrics to decide where to spend and where to cut. oh...wait...that makes too much sense. never mind. i'll shut up, now.

Old Grumpy McCain has never seen a war he didn't like.

Once again, the Republican Nut Jobs have been exposed for what they are! Make a deal and when it doesn't work out to your liking, change the rules! More blackmailing, right wing politics! Vote these nuts jobs out! Never, never, never, never, never trust a Republican!

John McCain. Do us all a favor and take your old tired arse away

Well which is it, do you want the deficit and budget reduced or not? If Congress and the House had done their jobs and worked together, instead of trying to advance their agendas then the automatic cuts wouldn't have went into effect. So don't blame it on the President.

I live in AZ. McLAME and his buddy Kyle are do nothings for this state and serve only powerful interests, NOT THE MIDDLE CLASS. Thank GOD Kyle stated this is his last term. McLame is the party guest who never realizes the party is over and the embarrassed host/hostess is stuck with long after the other guests have gone home. Self absorbed and living in the past that is Mr McLame

Yeah like they are doing for womens rights and jobs.while they have the votes to do some real down home union busting.

Once again, an agreement is made but when it comes time when it must be implemented - it becomes "Oh no, we can't enforce the part that affects MY interests." Of course we cannot get anything done when politicians cannot be trusted to keep their words (snicker, snicker, snicker...) And public trust in Congress continues to drop.

McCain is an obama lover. he lost all credit just like obama has in my opinion. afterall he is one of those that backs taking away our rights.

Reuters reported that the two Arizona senators and four other members want to reshape the first installment of budget cuts so that the Pentagon is not affected...They also reported that Israel is planning a preemptive strike on Iran's Nuclear facilities in April, May or June...You know who will be dragged into that conflict...Bad, bad, bad idea to cut the budget right now....Better wake up and smell the roses (or gunpowder)......