Posted on 04/08/2013 4:34:05 AM PDT by servo1969
Sen. John McCain (R-Sunday Shows) expressed bewilderment on CBS' "Face the Nation" that GOP Sens. Cruz, Lee and Paul would filibuster gun control legislation. “I don’t understand it,” McCain said. “The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” With all due respect to Sen. McCain, that is almost completely backward.
The purpose of the US Senate is not to be some federal debating society. It is not tasked with taking the great issues of the day and giving its "august" members a platform for their musings on policy. The public does not look to the Senate for guidance in its deliberations on the issues.
The Senate's first, and only, task is to uphold the Constitution. Originally, the Senate was designed to act as the states' check on an encroaching federal government. Senators were appointed by state legislatures to be their voice in Washington. The House was designed to be the voice of the people. Sadly, those days are long gone.
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Mc Cain lacks “core values”..
and has no backbone !!
Enough already John .. change your affiliation to Demorat !
McCain was falling all over himself praising Schumer his amnesty partner.
In your advanced age and adled state I suspect there ia a great deal you no longer u understand or comprehend .
You are why a fat azz daughter seeks relevancy where gone exists
servo1969 ~:(from the article)” McCain said. “The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.”
No John , it isn’t for people to see how you voted ..
you are supposed to reperesent your constituants
NOT your own placating IDEOLOGY,.. like the Libtards !!
McCain thinks the US Senate is the House of Lords. He doesn’t seem to care his ass keeps getting run over by the Democrats who are playing hardball.
If he can’t understand a fundamental procedure in government being initiated by his own party members he ought to resign immediately and get the hell out of the country.
If he doesn't understand Cruz, Paul, Rubio and Lee, he's getting pretty close to the point where he forgets what his name is, where he is, what the year is, and starts walking out of the Senate bathroom with his trousers undone. Can't Arizona do any better than that?
How does a man who was a POW not understand that Americans want to keep our civil liberities?
I said it yesterday- I will say it again: GO HOME JOHN- and stay there and never show your face again.
What a disgraceful American. Freedom is good for HIM, but not for my son?
Go to hell John. I am so sick of you stoopid politicians playing with our lives and liberty.
Good people of Arizona, please open your eyes.
Oh wait...we Mighiganders have Stabenow and Levin in the Senate. Never mind.
John McCain is a collaborator.
Mighiganders s/b Michiganders. Proofreading is my friend.
Thank You! I read that vomit-inducing drivel and thought, “we’ll, there’s a BIG problem with nearly 99% of elected officials; they have no idea they work for us!”
McNuts just can’t be gone soon enough! He’s a friggin’ idiot!
John McCain has ridden the pity train farther than anyone else, ever.
He understands it. The cowardly little pissant wants to be part of the socialist wave and not swim against it. This is what Boris Yeltsin did. He didn’t believe in socialism but jumped on board to save his own skin.
He won his primary challenge in 2010 and that gave him six more years to side with Dems on key votes.
Juan, if you can’t see bad legislation and doing something about it, you are the problem.
It would appear that some of those indoctrination beatings by the North VietNamese have had some lasting effect.
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