Kill the pork! Elect the guy with the knife (McCain)

Union Leader (N.H.) ^ | 12/23/07 | Editorial

[Norman Bates]

“Found NOT GUILTY of any wrongdoing”

LOL, M.O., that’s incidental! Merry Christmas!

[Norman Bates]

“How about McCain’s involvement with the Savings and Loan scandal??”

Not guilty.

[Norman Bates]

Consider the polling in post 35 as another point to consider.

[commonguymd]

Didn’t he have a problem with out of control spending in his campaign? Can’t manage his own money issues, why do I think he could manage more?

[Norman Bates]

Campaigns are normally divided between the financial arm and the actual campaign arm. Nevertheless, he fixed the problem. That ought to count for something. Merry Christmas!

[Lancey Howard]

First, it is by no means clear that Frist had the votes to "go nuclear", and if he had attempted it and failed the rats would have then controlled every judicial nomination from that point forward. Some "conservatives" may have felt smug in their adherence to "principle", but the nation would have been doomed. (I am not overstating the ramifications of a failed vote to "go nuclear".)

Second, "going nuclear" works both ways. A rat President would be able to appoint courts-full of Stephen Breyers and Ruth Bader-Ginsbergs on a bare majority vote and there would be nothing the Republicans could do about it. (Of course, the rats could still "go nuclear" on their own watch, but the chances of that are at least a little diminished. Once again it would be the rats breaking new ground in their efforts to take America down the sewer.)

The "Gang of Fourteen" scheme could not have worked out better.

McCain-Feingold was probably initialted w/ good intentions but turned out to have unforseen negatives

I totally disagree with your effort to dismiss McCain's responsibility for this abominable piece of crap. It's a killer, and it makes McCain look completely untrustworthy. Any legislator who promotes legislation based on the premise that politicians are crooks who are routinely bought and sold tells me more about the sponsoring legislator than anything else. It is the stone opposite of Reagan's philosophy which was, "People donate to my campaign because they like my positions, not because they are trying to influence my positions."

[TigersEye]

Thank you. I prefer to examine records than to listen to campaign slogans and soundbites. It’s a waste of the internet’s potential to regurgitate the pablum of candidate ads and MSM punditry.

[Just mythoughts]

I am really really fond of his hidden EAR-marks that I am NOW forced to pay without representation under his officially embossed government sanctioned welcome to lawbreakers mat.

McCain is a fake conservative and I will never vote for him, WELCOME back to PENNSYLVANIA AVE Hillry and Bill!!!!

[Popman]

I maintain that the “Gang of Fourteen” gambit was one of the most brilliant political schemes ever devised. The rats still don’t know what hit them.

Not hardly.

The dems agreed because they know the "nuclear option" would break them and push though Bush nominees who were vanquishing for years without the normal and decades old traditions of an up or down vote.

McCain helped backstab the GOP and Bush.

Nice try BTW, but pure Bullsh*t

[Lancey Howard]

Try reading the posts and then get a clue.

Here they are:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943728/posts?page=46#46

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943728/posts?page=20#20

[mossyoaks]

Any legislator who promotes legislation based on the premise that politicians are crooks who are routinely bought and sold tells me more about the sponsoring legislator than anything else. Is it possible that it tells more about the legislators with whom McCain has worked, prompting him to believe that something must be done to curtail the influence peddling in Washington?

[Lancey Howard]

Is it possible that it tells more about the legislators with whom McCain has worked, prompting him to believe that something must be done to curtail the influence peddling in Washington?

Point taken.

I have always believed that with his version of CFR, McCain was selfishly trying to atone for his 'Keating Five' involvement - - assuage his guilty conscience or something... Anyway, what McCain succeeded in enacting was a frontal assault on the Constitution (regardless of a reckless 5 - 4 Supreme Court ruling) and the law is little more than an "incumbent protection" law.

The proper CFR would have been a carefully crafted transparency law.

[mossyoaks]

I think what you said in the first paragraph is probably true... And I agree with your final assertion also. (Hey, re: McCain's "guilty conscience" over Keating 5 - at least that means he has a conscience - which is more than we can say about some politicians!) Merry Christmas!