Robert Bluey
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I Wonder What Tom Cole Thinks of This?
16 May2007
Sen. John McCain got it right at the presidential debate when he said: “Spending is out of control. We didn’t lose the 2006 election because the war in Iraq. We lost it because we in the Republican Party came to Washington to change government and government changed us. We let spending go out of control. We spent money like a drunken sailor, although I never knew a sailor drunk or sober with the imagination of my colleagues.”
Contrast McCain’s comments to remarks made by Rep. Tom Cole, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, who cites Iraq as the No. 1 reason Republicans lost in 2006: “Oh, I don’t think the problem was spending. People who argue that we lost because we weren’t true to our base, that’s just wrong.”
- In: Politics
