Posted on 03/16/2014 7:42:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
By Thursday afternoon, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had had enough of posturing by fellow Republicans and their opposition to urgently needed Ukraine aid and Russian sanctions. The bill will now be delayed 10 days during a Senate recess, leaving Ukraine hanging as Russian troops mass on its border. “What has happened? Where are our priorities? . . . You can call yourself Republicans, that’s fine, because that’s your voter registration. Don’t call yourself Reagan Republicans,” he declared. He was channeling disgust among conservative foreign policy experts over the GOP’s hang-up over International Monetary Fund rules. (“Is the IMF whether it is fixed or not more important than the lives of thousands of people?”)
A conservative foreign policy think tanker disputed even the rationale for opposing the IMF funding. He told me, “There is no reason to oppose the IMF reform. It merely rationalizes voting percentages based on size of economy. This gives Brazil, China, India, et al, a slight rise, at the expense mostly of Europe. The U.S. share falls from something like 17.4 to 17. It doubles the amount of everyone’s contributions. I have yet to see anyone explain why this is bad. And our friends around the world are dumbfounded that we would oppose [it].” McCain echoed this argument on the floor.
Republicans who stalled the bill did not even have intellectual consistency going for them. If their complaint was about adding extraneous material to the bill, they shouldn’t have larded it up with a provision to block the Internal Revenue Service from going after political nonprofits. And even if one had a complaint, was it worth keeping funds from flowing to Ukraine? As for the House bill, McCain pointed out that it lacked sanctions language to punish Russia.
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Well the U.S. Navy was glad to see he could not fly any more as they only get so many aircraft a year. He was known as “Jonny Crash” a poor officer and a poor pilot and not even a very good person.
” He was known as “Jonny Crash” a poor officer and a poor pilot and not even a very good person.”
The count was five:
“During his relative short stunt on flight status, McCain III lost five U.S. Navy aircraft, four in accidents and one in combat. “
And you should read what he did to his first wife! He’s always been a POS who capitalized on being a POW.
FU McDemocRAT!
Priority is flushing turds like McCain, Graham, Boehner, and McConnell
down the bowl.
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