Posted on 12/17/2013 6:09:56 PM PST by servo1969
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain excoriated his conservative Republican colleagues Tuesday on the Senate floor for planning to vote against the House-passed budget deal, claiming their opposition “lacks some intellectual integrity.”
The budget agreement cleared a key procedural block Tuesday morning, after the Senate voted 66-33 to end debate on the bill. Twelve Republican senators joined Democrats in supporting the move, but 33 others — mostly fiscal conservatives — voted against advancing the bill and are expected to reject the deal itself later this week. That didn’t sit well with Sen. McCain.
“I understand that there are many of my colleagues on this side of the aisle that are very unhappy with this deal and intend to vote against it,” he said. “My only response to that is I respect their vote, but I’d like to know what we do in order to avoid another shutdown of the government.”
“The American people steadfastly reject a shutdown of the government,” he declared, his voice rising. “So I have concerns about the budget deal. Everybody, I think, does because the nature of the way business is done. But to somehow vote against it without an alternative to keep the budget — keep the government from shutting down, then I think lacks some intellectual integrity.”
McCain noted that he would be supporting the budget deal because it is important to him that Congress both avert another government shutdown and prevent further defense spending cuts scheduled to hit under the sequester.
Despite Republican opposition, the agreement is now nearly certain to pass sometime this week.
I tried to get to Juan McCain’s facebook and it redirects to John McCain. Did McCain get it banned?
Where is the woman who was trying to get him recalled and stopped after 911?
If I was in the senate I’d bitch slap him then warn every little weasel in the senate, especially Reid, that if any action is taken against me they’ll get more than a bitch slap.
You mean the Keating fifth McCain?
During the 2010 campaign, he intimated this would be his last term. However, he has since indicated that he just might want to run again.
I'm of the mind that he actually hoped to retire around 2014...and arrange to have his daughter, Megan the Insufferable, appointed to serve the balance of his term -- jump-starting her own career in the Senate's "McCain seat".
This country is not safe until McCain is padlocked in his Sedona home, tended to by caregivers.
You lack intellect... you traitorous disaster of a Naval Aviator and communist senator from that liberal state of Arizona..
With the exception of two things, there’s no difference between him or his daughter.
LOL!
John McCain and his ilk lack intellectual integrity — in McCain’s case, integrity of any kind at all.
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