Posted on 02/17/2013 11:51:36 AM PST by Nachum
Why on earth did John McCain just rescue Chuck Hagel’s nomination? Why did he go on Meet the Press this morning to say that Chuck Hagel was going to get confirmed as Secretary of Defense? McCain argued that Hagel had the votes to be confirmed and that he didn’t want the process to be delayed further. But if that is the case then why did Bob Woodward go on Fox News yesterday to say that Democratic Senators were calling the White House to ask when Hagel was withdrawing? Now I doubt Woodward would have dropped that tidbit if there wasn’t sufficient discord
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Because RINOs absolutely LOVE to sell out to liberals for a pat on the head.
Never trust McNasty,he has let us down time after time.
Totally predictable.
McCain is old school, where he would never defeat a fellow Senator. It is not about the issues or right or wrong decisions, but about the Senate brotherhood. Same reason he stabs his party in the back repeatedly. Good policy doesn’t matter, it is getting ‘something’ done.
And from McCain’s lapdog:
Lindsay Graham and Hagel Make Nice (For Now)
By Connor Simpson | The Atlantic Wire – 4 mins 56 secs ago
“Lindsay Graham and Chuck Hagel seem to have made nice for the time being. Graham said on Fox News Sunday this morning that Hagel wrote him a letter denying ever connecting the State Department to the Israeli Foreign Minister’s office. It was alleged that Hagel made the implication that the Department was merely an extension of the Israeli office while speaking at Rutgers University in 2007. It was a serious point of contention during Hagel’s marathon confirmation session with the Senate a few weeks ago. “He did not recall saying that,” Graham said on Sunday. “He disavows saying that. [...] If that’s true, that would end that matter.” Graham even implied he might be ready to let the confirmation go forward... unless something new comes up.” snip.......
http://news.yahoo.com/lindsay-graham-hagel-nice-now-194358219.html
I do not understand the premise.
Every single Republican that rattled cages and made noise, said they were going to confirm him regardless.
This is not new or unexpected.
McCain is a self-important moron. Always has been, always will be.
McCain is a self-important moron. Always has been, always will be.
When the rulers want something one can bet the money will flow. This is not my humble opinion, instead it is the nature of the beast.
Same reason McCain called Cruz a racist. He’s an idiot moderate.
McCain has for far too long fed at the teats of the tax payer.
John McCain like most politicians will keep the fires of hell very, very warm, that’s why he will confirm Hagel, politicians don’t give a damn about their constituents, it’s all about them, you don’t go to Washington D.C. for the salary, they’ve all sold their souls for the wealth and power of this world, not the next.
Because McCain sucks. He supports F-16s to Egypt.
Because McCain is a plant. Like all plants, it is required that sometimes he exhibit behavior that makes you think he actually is what he says he is, and isn’t a plant. This is calculated. But when the time comes for something important to take place, he is called upon to do what he is there to do - advance the agenda of the left.
OK, maybe this is tinfoil hat stuff, but his behavior too often makes this scenario plausible.
Because RINOs absolutely LOVE to sell out to liberals for a pat on the head.
McCain was one plane short of Becoming an Ace for the North Vietnamese.
If he hadn’t have become a Prisoner of War there is no telling how many planes he would have crashed.
Close to the bottom of his class in Annapolis and that probably because his dad was an Admiral.
McCain is almost as dangerous to America as Kerry and Obama.
Because McCain serves the same masters as Obama. I not making this up. If have seen this yet, you are blind.
Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
And people wondered why FR started the “Just say no to RINOs/No More RINOs” campaign.
Then they mocked it.
Some of these same people then shrieked in rage later when the RINOs sold us out.
It’s patently obvious to the rest of us.
And probably someone has dirt on him.
McCain is a country clubber that a bunch of FReepers supported on here when he ran
You just saw a puppet show with the ending already known with Obama getting his way. The show was just to make you think there was a fight. There is no fight. Congress is in the hands just a empty shell of corrupt men and women.
Tea party take notice and challenge that idiot GRAHAM.
You didn't really think Obama’s best friend would vote against an Obama nominee, did you?
If the voters in AZ are not seriously considering a recall, then the AZ Republicans can all be classified as RINOs and not to be confused with their greatest Republican, Barry Goldwater. Just my opinion.
McCain lives for these moments of personal power. He engineers the surrounding circumstances in his life for these moments. It’s not about right or wrong with McCain, it’s about these moments.
And, if it hurts conservatives, all the better because he (being a “conservative”) has made a grand personal sacrifice for the good of all. Ick.
Thanks Arizona - for returning this twisted little sack of betrayal and corruption to office again and again.
McCain already betrayed the POW-MIA’s and sucked up to North Vietnam many years ago. Nothing new about that, I’m afraid.
He is a McCain in the butt.
This is more about being a member of the Club. McCain feels himself a senior member of the Club and that members in good standing are deserving of the Club’s consent. Of course McCain doen’t care that this NEVER works in favor of a Republican. He feels that this identifies him as a truly bi partisan figure who rises way above the hacks. In his own way McCain is every bit as narcissistic as Barky.
Don’t EVER, EVER become deluded about the identity of John McCain.
He is an EVIL, LYING, DUPLICITOUS SNAKE. When I FIRST saw him go after Chuckie Crybaby Hagel, I was amazed. Amazed, but not deceived.
Like SO MANY people in the Republican Elite, McCain lacks the courage of conservative convictions. Just look at the witch he raised.
Unfortunate but not surprising.
And ONCE AGAIN, the enemy is NOT John McCain, as it is not Barrack Hussein Obama. Its the idiot moron voters who keep electing and re=electing this scum.
By the way, just watch McCain’s little pansy puppet tow the McCain line shortly. No more attack dog Gomer Pyle role for Lindsey Graham.
He will fold like a cheap deck of cards.
Unless conservatives can take over the GOP and eject dirtballs like this, AND Boehner AND McConnell, its all over for the Republican Party, America, the West and western civilization.
Buy your burnoose now while they are cheap.
...to show Cruz who's boss.
McCain supported the group which received
the MANPAD transfer from the beginning.
This “opposition” was for show.
Two words: Senile dementia
Meanwhile, the Senate Club Republicans say not a word about pedophile Menendez.
Way to go, Juan. Senate before Country.
I wonder if he would tell a rape victim to "just relax, and try to enjoy it?"
I think that McCain has done enough damage to the US and needs to retire from the Senate.
Mark
When is McLame up for “re-election”? We need to get a Tea Partier running against him and bringing all of these issues up to the conservative base.
I plan to retire to AZ at some point and don’t want bozos like this to soil my future home!
I think everyone pretty much knew that Hagel would be confirmed after this “break”
McCain sold out to the North Vietnamese so a sell out to the Rats is easy. Each is an extension of the other.
Answer: McCain is a shill for all things Democratic. It is his nature, his essence his very emptiness. McCain is a bad man.
Because he’s been in Soros’ hip pocket for more than a decade. He’s a controlled-opposition stooge.
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