Posted on 09/26/2013 7:06:54 AM PDT by servo1969
He's a Democrat. I don't mind that he's a Democrat, but he's going around the country claiming to be part of the opposition party.
This is, essentially, the Democratic response: ObamaCare was duly passed, it was an issue in a presidential campaign that the GOP lost, end of story — whether or not there are 51 or even 60 votes in the Senate to defund this thing. He actually used the phrase “elections have consequences,” which must be the first time a member of the *minority* party has ever tossed that into a debate. Like Ramesh Ponnuru says, weren’t Ted Cruz and Mike Lee elected too?
UPDATE: (Jack M.)
Here's a blast from the past. 2002 to be exact. McCain's been a Democrat for at least 11 years, or so his one-time "chief strategist" seems to imply in this 2002 interview. In 2013, Weaver, apparently, is a Republican consultant again.
John Weaver hunches his angular frame over a Styrofoam cup of coffee in the basement cafeteria of the United States Senate and tries to explain what might seem--to an outsider--his peculiar political loyalties. Once a loyal Republican strategist who directed the presidential aspirations of uber-conservative Phil Gramm and helped plot John McCain's maverick primary run in 2000, he has since re-registered as a Democrat and severed consulting ties to all Republicans except McCain, for whom he still serves as chief strategist. "I only work for Democrats now," he tells me. Noticing that he has overlooked the party affiliation of his most prominent advisee, I helpfully add: "And John McCain." Weaver shrugs his shoulders and grins, "Oh, right."
Update 2: Moar Context!1!
Here's some more relatively contemporaneous context. Granted it's from the New York Times in 2008, so grain of salt...but the players remain the same.
Mr. McCain had begun to ally himself with the Democrats on a number of issues, and had told Mr. Daschle that he planned to vote against the Bush tax cuts, a centerpiece of the new president’s domestic agenda. Mr. McCain often made “disparaging comments” about Mr. Bush on the floor of the Senate, Mr. Daschle recalled.Still, Democrats were stunned one Saturday in late March when, by their account, John Weaver, Mr. McCain’s longtime political strategist, reached out to Thomas J. Downey, a former Democratic congressman from Long Island who had become a lobbyist with powerful connections on Capitol Hill. In Mr. Downey’s telling, Mr. Weaver posed a question to him over lunch that left him stunned.
“He says, ‘John McCain is wondering why nobody’s ever approached him about switching parties, or becoming an independent and allying himself with the Democrats,’ ” Mr. Downey said in a recent interview. “My reaction was, ‘When I leave this lunch, your boss will be called by anybody you want him to be called by in the United States Senate.’ ”
Mr. Weaver recalls the conversation differently. He said that Mr. Downey had told him that Democrats, eager to find a Republican who would switch sides and give them control of the evenly divided Senate, had approached some Republican senators about making the jump. “I stated they couldn’t be so desperate as they hadn’t reached out to McCain,” Mr. Weaver said in an e-mail message last week.
Whatever transpired, Mr. Downey raced home and immediately called Mr. Daschle. It was the first step in what became weeks of conversations that April between Mr. McCain and the leading Democrats, among them Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and John Edwards, then a senator from North Carolina, about the possibility of Mr. McCain’s leaving his party. One factor driving Mr. McCain, Mr. Downey said, was his bad relations with the Republican caucus.
So, yeah. As they use to say in the old NFL commercials: "You make the call!"
Proven Federal Fact: The only way to balance the US Federal Spending and Income within the next two years is to execute this two step process:
1.) DEFUND Obamacare in 2013; and
2.) ABOLISH Obamacare, Democratcare, and Republicancare in the first month of 2014.
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BTW US Congress men and women, failure to do BOTH of these timely steps will insure that your replacements will gladly do it for you.
It is all about the money, stupid - - - OUR taxpayer money!
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick ———
Did he actually say, “Endeavor to persevere”?
That is surrender-speak for ‘bend over and do what we tell you’.
Yeah, like Stepin Fetchit.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AQl2GoEbPys
That’s McPain and Graham Cracker right there - the Stepin Fetchit Republican lackeys of the DemoFascists.
Yeah to all of this article. I did not think much of Romney but I voted for him, mainly because of his executive experience and his anti-illegal immigration policies. But I could not vote McCain in 2008, just no way, no how could I bring myself to vote McCain. Even with Sarah who I really like on the ticket, McCain is just that bad for this conservative. Oh I would not have voted Bush in 2004 if it had not been for John Kerry, yeah Bush was that bad too.
Like North Korea?
Like PolPot’s Cambodia?
Like Ceausescu's Romania?
Like 1930’s Germany?
Socialism leads to the opposite of Civilization.
Can somebody please send Juan to a Jr. High school history class? preferably one from the 1960’s when public schools still taught mostly facts. Better yet a modern private school.
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M'kay.....John McCain--------->You go first!
So - basically what Juan McLame is saying is - for the Republican party to survive, they must become Democrats...
Then what is the point of a two-party system? Not that we REALLY have such right now...
We have something that looks more like this:
Liberal Democrats and Republicans vs. Conservatives (who really have no party at all).
Resign, McAmnesty.
He should retire to Atlantis
from the outlaw josie wales..
and they told us to endeavor to persevere..
we went home, thought about it, and then declared war on the union...
McCain is a traitor, that is all he has ever been.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator
- Casino
- Good Fellas
- Jeramia Jonson
oh man I almost spit out my drink, that was a good one!
mclame disgraces any history of being a patriot he may have had...what a putz!
He’s such a “maverick” while Cruz is an anarchist....
I hate the state controlled media.
McCain lied about being a Republican. He stole the Republican primary race away from some real Republicans. Then he basically gave up the contest when he said Obama would make a good President, days before votes were cast. He basically helped steal the election for a Marxist. Then he helped the Marxist get reelected by covering Obama’s massive abuse of power and dereliction of duty. Prison is too good for this scumbag.
McQueeg - a RAT in RINO clothing
The good old boy club is not amused.
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