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affrayer Donating Member (261 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 10:08 AM
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Another Spectacular ACE McCain Screw Up!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/14/AR2011011406893.html">Administration giving up on full 'virtual fence' on border

The Obama administration canceled Friday the troubled, billion-dollar "virtual fence" project along the U.S. border with Mexico and said it will turn to other security measures to better guard the desert region.

If you remember, this virtual fence was one of McCain's major platform planks in the 2008 election.



But now what does skippy say?

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0303mccain-fence0303-ON.html">McCain calls virtual border fence in Arizona a 'disgrace'

Isn't this classic? A right winger neat idea proven to be a complete and utter failure...

Boy are we lucky McCain didn't win...
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 10:09 AM
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1. 2008
Associated Press
Mar. 3, 2008 02:59 PM

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affrayer Donating Member (261 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 10:21 AM
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3. The Virtual Fense
Was a bad idea to begin with and this should have been clear even back in 2008. It showed two things, ACE McCain didn't understand what caused the immigration problem and it showed he didn't have a clue on how to fix it. It clearly demonstrated he was unfit to be a Senator let alone a president.

Too bad we wasted billions of dollars on it chasing ACE McCain's stupidity.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 10:20 AM
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2. Privatization of the project created the disgrace. But I bet McCain still
votes to privatize government projects. Its outrageous how the GOP continues to allow private companies to rip off the taxpayers.
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affrayer Donating Member (261 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 10:27 AM
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5. Privitization Is Another Example
Of Right wing tomfoolery...it didn't work in Iraq and Afghanistan and it certainly would not have worked on our southern border.

BTW: Republicans do not look at it as "ripping" off the taxpayers. They look at it as an opportunity to make profits where there was none before...

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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 10:26 AM
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4. McGramps should have fenced himself
and Palin away from sane human beings. McGramps's desperation which led to Palin crawling out of her hole from hell has done nothing but harm to civility.
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affrayer Donating Member (261 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 10:37 AM
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6. That's Callled Republican "Neat Ideas."
They are ideas that "sound" neat but invariably fail.

The virtual fence, tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation of banks, privatization and so on are all examples of "neat ideas."

Palin herself was a neat idea...and she is indeed a world class failure.

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