Tuesday Night liveblog: McCain is More of the Same

by: Scott Weingart

Tue Aug 26, 2008 at 07:57:39 PM EDT

[Senator McCain] doesn't understand how the policies he has supported and wants to perpetuate have so terribly misfired.

We cannot afford four more years of failing economics and a failing economy.

Our children can't afford more of the same.

Our seniors can't afford more of the same.

Our working families can't afford more of the same.

John McCain's good friend Phil Gramm says we're in a "mental recession," and that the middle-class folks worried about their futures are just "whiners." Barack Obama knows that pursuing the failed policies of the past is no way to build America's future.

Rep. Rahm Emanuel (IL):

This election comes down to a simple question: do we want four more years of Bush-McCain or do we want the change we need?

George Bush has put the middle class in a hole and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

The Walshes and families like them can't afford four more years of playing second fiddle to the well-connected and the powerful. And our country can't afford four more years of Bush-McCain economics.

Gov. Ed Rendell (PA):

[G]uess who voted with President Bush 90 percent of the time? Senator John McCain.

Now, as another Republican convention approaches, we are hearing more of the same

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (MD):

This November, we can't afford four more years of the same.

Gov. Joe Manchin (WV):

[The people of West Virginia] can't afford four more years like the last eight.

Gov. Jim Doyle (WI):

We are ready to reject John McCain's campaign that offers nothing but four more years of the same.

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When the people of our great nation feel the American dream slipping out of their reach, we can't afford four more years of the same.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (MD):

Today, because of the policies of George Bush, John McCain, and their Republican allies in Congress, that beacon has dimmed, not only for the world, but for many Americans. ...The American people cannot afford more of the same

Sen. Patrick Leahy (VT):

Rural America can't afford four more years of the same.

As much as John McCain would like us to believe he is different, his economic plan offers not a single new idea, just more of the same.

[T]he...oil companies that have called the shots in the Bush White House are doubling down on John McCain.

John McCain offers four more years of the same Bush-Cheney policies that have failed us.