Friday McBush Bashing (“I Hate the Bloggers” Edition)

During this past week: McCain called the most import entitlement program in the U.S. a disgrace, his top economic adviser called the American people whiners, McCain released an economic plan that no one thought was serious, he flip flopped on Iraq, joked about the deaths of Iranian citizens, and denied making comments that he clearly made – TWICE. All this and it is not even Friday! Yet watching and reading the mainstream press you would think McCain was having a pretty decent political week, I mean at least Jesse Jackson didn't say anything about him.

And here we are, just four months from Election Day, and McCain is presenting a bizarre economic plan, which doesn’t make any sense on its face, and which also lacks any and all support from the campaign itself. Knowing we might look at the numbers to see if they add up, the McCain campaign decided not to include any numbers.

There’s a $410 billion budget deficit, which McCain will eliminate in his first term. How? He just will. He wants to cut taxes by about a trillion dollars. How can we afford it? We just can. McCain realizes the value of the dollar is down, and he’s committed to reversing this. How? He just will.

I’ve seen more details from candidates running for student government.”)

See also DeLong, John McCain Leaves Budget Reality Far Behind… & DeLong's esprit d'escalier at John McCain: The Budget Policy of an Underpants Gnome!. And for cleanup, the Carpetbagger Report again, On 'saving' Social Security, Obama and McCain do more than just ‘diverge’, which explains who McCain's non-math can't possibly add up unless you do terrible things.