THEIR REGRESSIVE AND SELFISH ECONOMIC POLICIES ARE CATCHING UP WITH THE REPUBLICANS-- AND BOEING SUPPORTERS KNOW WHO TO BLAME: McCAIN

McBush: poster boys for shipping American jobs overseas

Yesterday McBush came up snake eyes in the Republican heartland. The GOP's presumptive heir to the George Bush political legacy took a big gamble with his high profile support of a much-disliked extremist in a solidly Republican special election-- and lost. It was a race that pitted McCain against Obama, who had campaigned for the Democrat. In 2004 Kerry had only managed 44% of the vote in IL-14. Obama helped Foster win with almost 53%.

The victory shows superdelegates, especially ones who are running for re-election in November what Obama-- celebrating his own impressive victory in Wyoming-- can do for them. It also shows Republicans who campaign with McBush what's in store for them. And this is nothing compared to what is likely to happen as the Bush Recession kicks in over the next few months.

As more and more Americans start putting the pieces of the puzzle together and realize that the high gas prices, the unacceptable inflation rate, the increasing unemployment figures, the housing market catastrophe are all an outgrowth of the Bush Regime's policies and agenda-- policies rubber stamped by McCain again and again... as well as by virtually all the Republican senators and congressmembers running for re-election in November, what happened yesterday in IL-14 will be a model for the Republicans' well-deserved undoing. Boeing workers, for example, have already figured it out and they're vowing revenge against "McCain over Chicago-based Boeing's loss of a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract to the parent company of European plane maker Airbus." Shipping American jobs overseas may be someone's idea of "Free Trade," but it doesn't go over outside of the Board rooms. When McCain bragged about having been instrumental in denying an immense new contract to Boeing for refueling planes and helping the European Aeronautics Defense and Space Co. get it instead, there was "outrage from union halls to the halls of Congress over the impact on U.S. jobs, prestige and national security."

Boeing supporters in Congress are directing their wrath at McCain, the Arizona senator and nominee in waiting, for scuttling an earlier deal that would have let Boeing build the next generation of Air Force refueling tankers. Boeing now will miss out on a deal that it says would have supported 44,000 new and existing jobs at the company and suppliers in 40 states.

"I hope the voters of this state remember what John McCain has done to them and their jobs," said Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., whose state would have been home to the tanker program and gained about 9,000 jobs.

Another Democratic member of Congress, himself a big hypocrite for his support of the Iraq occupation and discredited "free" trade policies was bleating to the media: "Having made sure that Iraq gets new schools, roads, bridges and dams that we deny America, now we are making sure that France gets the jobs that Americans used to have," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill. "We are sending the jobs overseas, all because John McCain demanded it."

Even Republican hacks scared of losing their own seats are attacking McCain for his role in this. One of the most notorious rubber stamps in Congress, Bush's little pet Dave Reichert whined ineffectually:

"John McCain will be the nominee and I will support him, but if John McCain believes that Airbus or EADS is the company for our Air Force tanker program he's flat-out wrong — and I'll tell him that to his face," said Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash.

Rep. Todd Tiahrt, a Kansas Republican whose district includes a Boeing plant that could have gained hundreds of new jobs from the tanker program, said McCain's role in killing the earlier deal is likely to become an election issue. Both of the leading Democratic candidates for president, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, have criticized the Air Force decision.

"I think we absolutely will hear more about it," Tiahrt said. "We'll hear it mostly from the Democrats and they have every right to be concerned."