RedHatBlueHat 4: All Your Monies Are Belong to Them

The fourth installment of RedHatBlueHat featured Tim Jones, Shawn Collins, Mike Allen, Sam Harrelson, and Todd Crawford getting worked up about money and war.

This week focused on a John McCain interview on the Today Show where he made comments about Iraq and “big oil” that got the Obama camp worked into a tizzy.

When asked if he has a better estimate for when U.S. troops could leave Iraq, McCain responded, “No, but that’s not too important. What’s important is casualties in Iraq.”

Former Democrat Presidential nominee, who pined for McCain as his Vice-President four years ago, isolated the first part of the comment and labeled McCain as “confused” (Democrat code for old).

Also discussed was a comment from John McCain where he said should oil companies should return some profits to consumers, “and they should be embarking on research and development that will pay off in reducing our dependence on foreign oil.”

The Red Hats on the show were unanimous in opposing a forced sharing of profits in our free market, and it was deemed a rather liberal perspective on business.

We also got into how Obama and McCain plan to deal with Iraq, and touched on Representative Paul Kanjorski (D – PA) candidly explaining that Democrats won many seats in 2006 on the platform of ending the war, even though they knew they couldn’t end the war.

Sam tried to dismiss this reference of flagrant and disturbing Democrat deception as local politics in Pennsylvania, even though it was a national platform for Democrats.

We wound things up with talk of the legacy of the Bush administration, and speculated what might have been if 9/11 didn’t happen.

At one point, I (Shawn) mentioned the middle class cut-off being set at $75k AGI – I briefly forgot the basis for that reference, but recalled after the show that it was with regards to the cutoff for single filers to receive economic stimulus payments.

Episode 4 runs 76 McCain soaked minutes.

Tagged as: 9/11, barack obama, Iraq, john mccain, Paul Kanjorski, Scott McClellan