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Fun Fact About John McCain #12: He Wants to Tax Your Health Care Benefits

McCain wants to tax my heath care benefits!

Actually true. But wait, there’s more. As people won’t be able to afford individual health insurance plans…

McCain wants to open “up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking…”

An actual quote [PDF]. So – McCain wants to tax my health care benefits provided by my employer – so that my employer will eventually force me to get health care on my own – which will be easier to get because he will be deregulating the health insurance market and removing consumer protections that exist on the state-level – just like we did with banking in the past 10 years. This sounds like a brilliant idea!

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“You were wrong.”

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Fun Fact About John McCain #11: Fiscal Irresponsibility

[digg-reddit-me]John McCain will balance the budget by cutting earmark spending.

Not even close . Ever heard of the “starve-the-beast” strategy? It’s about the only thing that explains either this history or why McCain’s tax cuts (estimated to cost as much as $700 billion a year [PDF]) far exceed the cost of earmarks (total pork spending since 1991 has totaled about $271 billion).

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Fun Fact About John McCain #10: A Third Bush Term

A McCain presidency would be Bush III.

On all of the “important” issues, yes – as McCain himself explains:

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Fun Facts About John McCain #9: Phil Gramm

One of McCain’s closest friends and advisers, Phil Gramm, who wrote McCain’s economic plan and who McCain said he relies on to understand the economy, didn’t believe the current crisis was possible.

Actually True. Gramm said that “This is [only] a mental recession…We sort of become a nation of whiners,” just a few months ago. But though McCain distanced himself from the comments, but he kept Gramm’s plans in place. Gramm was, in fact, one of the authors of the bill that deregulated the banking industry, which many economists say led to this crisis.

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Fun Fact About John McCain #8: Not About Issues

John McCain doesn’t think this election is about issues.

Actually true according to one of McCain’s top advisers which helps explains this.

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Like a Ricky Gervais sketch

This is a perfect description of how the Palin candidacy – and increasingly the McCain campaign overall – feels to me – “like a Ricky Gervais sketch” – where you want to look away, it’s so embarrassing and almost painful, but you keep watching. If only this weren’t so serious, it would be seriously funny.

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David Letterman takes on McCain

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Off the Deep End

[digg-reddit-me]Over in crazy land, also known as the National Review, Kathryn Jean Lopez says that many readers are suggesting that as Obama is saying the debates will go on…

they’d like McCain to just offer Palin step in for him.

I’d like to go on record as being in favor of that.

What are these people thinking? Either I’m crazy, or they are – and I’m hoping it’s them.

(H/t Andrew Sullivan.)

My guess is that the McCain campaign is (1) seeing a rapid change in the polls and trying to take some momentum back; and (2) wants to postpone the Vice Presidential debate because Palin isn’t ready (as Republicans have acknowledged recently). The Vice Presidential debate is scheduled for next Thursday.