Posted on 06/23/2006 7:28:48 PM PDT by wagglebee
I hope that you are correct.
I do know that Mc Cain is deeply disliked by me.
Rings kind of hollow doesn't it? I would go into his hypocrisy, but I don't have all night to sit here typing. He should do the world a favor and retire.
So how did Campaign Finance Reform make the government smaller?
Excellent tale!
It fits McCain to a T...chumming it with Chappaquiddick Teddy on amnesty for illegal aliens and then in the next moment 'angry' about the wild spending on Capitol Hill.
How very Hillary.
What a fraud this man is....
Yet again, there has been 2 weeks of debate on the defense spending bill...and I didn't hear one word from McCain, or see one amendment with his name on it...asking for a reduction in spending for anything!!
BUT, after the fact, as usual, he gets up and starts complaining....that is chicken "s"....
Why doesn't he stand there and FIGHT before it is too late???
I am sure he would do the same in war...
BTW...he probably NEVER even thought of Reagan before it was politically expedient to SAY he did.
McCain will not be the POTUS in 2008 (or 2009).
I had a thought today. I wonder if John McCain will run as a Dimocrat or a Republican when he goes for the Presidency.
That's PERFECT! LOL
Well...he did vote against the Medicare prescription drug bill...the most expensive piece of federal legislation in the last 40 years
How many congressional Republicans running in '08 can say that?
Winslow T. Wheeler (a.k.a. "Spartacus") in his article about the post 9/11 defense spending bill titled "Mr. Smith is dead" wrote these passages about McCain:-
"He insists that his staff ferret out much of the junk in Congress' defense bills. Without fail, he marches to the floor of the Senate to rail against it. What his staff finds never ceases to amaze even the most jaded in the congressional bureaucracy, and his speeches never fail to aggravate the perpetrators and their staff for being found out so early and so easily or to give a lift to an unknown number of staff—and perhaps even a Senator or two—who have grown disgusted with the new business as usual."
"But with Senator McCain, the buck does stop; unlike Harry Truman, it stops short of his desk. He gives the good speech, expresses his outrage, lectures his colleagues, and stirs up the place with an occasional, short delay. But then he walks away. When it comes to action—meaningful action—Senator McCain is only a paper press release tiger."
"In a constitutional system specifically designed to equip a minority—even of one—with the parliamentary weapons to bring the system to a halt unless and until the minority is given some level of satisfaction, Senator McCain has unilaterally disarmed himself. Of the dozens of tactics available to him to bring the Senate into legislative agony—tactics many others have used to achieve their own ends—Senator McCain has chosen to sit on his hands."
"His doing so is all the more remarkable because more than any other Senator, he has informed himself of the garbage packed into Congress' defense bills. Knowing at least as well as any other just what is going on, he finds it somehow going too far to put an end to it with the many tools at his disposal. By assuming this role—i.e. the self-anointed, but also self-disarmed, crusader against "pork"—Senator McCain has made himself not the Senate's "pork buster" but its "pork enabler." If the worst the Congress' most outspoken opponent of pork is going to do is give a speech, there is clearly no meaningful downside."
"In the absence of any real action, Senator McCain appears to be seeking the appearance of a reformer without the substance. In the final analysis he sinks to the level of the rest: he seeks to be accepted for something he is not. The others seek to be taken as patriots and statesmen while they snatch what they can for their self-advancement. In the Indochina War, Senator McCain proved his patriotism on a daily basis for many painful years, but these days he seeks, just like all the rest, to be seen as something that his actions—or rather inactions—belie. "
And what principles are those McCain? Stipping the American people of their 1st Admendment Constitutional rights? I guess he only wants out of control spending to occur when theres an election going on.
Historically, the Dem party has been a coalition of differing constituent groups that came together every four years to choose a national ticket candidate. This was largely because of their coming out of the Depression and through WW II as the party in power. The need to present a monolithic and singular purposed party didn't exist allowing each group having different interests to pursue them for three years and the coalesence necessary to present a national front in convention and election year the fourth.
And Red Rover, I'm well into my seventh decade. You're correct that the rule changes were impelled by the dust-up in Chicago in '68. I wasn't in the U.S. during that joust being otherwise occupied dealing with Uncle Ho.
Why not? Almost no one else up there seems to be.
The memory of Chicago in '68 and the Democrat's hippie covention in '72 is unfortunately vivid for me. I meant no offense, and sorry if I sounded like a twit. Thank you for your service.
Thank you ...I hadn't read that before...
And the author said, much better than I did, how John is...but, I have noticed him doing this with every single spending bill...
Well, perhaps all vets but one; me!
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