John McCain's Economic Doozy of the Day - Chapter 2 Posted by Michael Cohen

In my ongoing effort to anthologize the gobsmackingly wondrous McCain economic plan, welcome to Chapter 2 - cutting spending!

Leadership, Courage And Choices: Reducing spending means making choices. John McCain will provide the courageous leadership necessary to control spending, including:

• Eliminate broken government programs. The federal government itself admits that one in five programs do not perform.

• Reform procurement programs and cut wasteful spending in defense and non-defense programs.

So here's what I'm sure you're thinking - clearly if John McCain thinks their are broken government programs he has identified a number of them that he believes should be eliminated. If one in five do not perform how hard could it be. Surely, John McCain would not propose to eliminate government programs and then not identify them in is plan, particularly since he has made this a signature campaign issue. But alas, dear reader, you are incorrect. In fact, McCain's plan does not name a single program they would get rid of.

This of course has always been the problem with cutting government spending - it sounds great in the abstract, but when you get down to the specific programs that are going to be eliminated, resistance always grows. The political costs of cutting government spending or what so often prevent real cuts from happening - a point that John McCain's economic plan proves once again.

Comments

[Dan Q. Public]

This sounds like less of a 'doozy' than sound political campaigning; as pointed out in the post itself, as soon as you actually name names of programs, you stir up increased political resistance. Why draw the ire when you're campaigning, rather than when you're safely ensconced in office?

(Compare McCain's 'Leadership, Courage, and Choices' line of branding to Obama's intentionally undefined rhetoric of 'hope.' Same thing, different mouth.)

I have no doubt that McCain has very specific programs he wants to eliminate or reduce, but it's disingenuous to suggest that he should be castigated for not revealing his hand when his opponent intentionally--and has based his campaign around to a much greater extent--kept everything vague and airy, trying to be everything to everyone.

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