Posted on 07/25/2012 6:27:19 AM PDT by TexasCajun
A prominent Phoenix tea party leader who believes Muslims cannot be trusted to be loyal to the United States and should not be working for the federal government is incensed with U.S. Sen. John McCain’s defense of a top State Department official and is eying a recall drive against Arizona’s senior senator.
Wes Harris, the founder and chairman of the Original North Phoenix Tea Party, said he plans to take out a recall petition against McCain. While Harris has many problems with McCain, a mass email he sent out focused solely on the senator’s recent defense of Huma Abedin, a top aide to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Harris accused Abedin of having ties to an Islamic extremist group, and he objected to the fact that a Muslim was working for the State Department in the first place.
McCain is against America. Recall him.
“Can ANYONE here (or anywhere) tell me exactly WHAT John McCain has EVER done right in his PATHETIC life?”
One thing comes to mind (and so far, one thing only).....
McCain launched Sarah Palin to national prominence four years ago.
Other than that.....crickets.
"No federal elected official in Arizona has ever faced a recall election. McCain critics on both sides of the aisle have pursued several unsuccessful recalls against him in recent years." -- AZCapitolTimes.com
The Constitution enumerates the powers given to the government. If the Constitution does not specifically prohibit a state from recalling a senator then it is left to the state. Some states allow for recall of senators although it has never been done and would be extremely difficult and be drawn out (the jackass in question would be timed out on his term). The Constitution only addresses how long the term shall be, a term is no longer than 6 years before requiring the senator to run again, but does not specify anything about that term being inviolate. If a senator commits murder and is sent to prison is the state stuck with his name on the ballot even though he cannot serve? If a senator is appointed as an ambassador does he/she retain the seat for the rest of the six years? If a senator dies, do they prop the corpse in the seat until the six years is up? Arizona should press to test and go forward with recalling midget-mind mclame.
The voters of Arizona are not about to recall Mc Cain. If anything, they will elect him for another term.
The Tea Party needs good people, good people who do their home work.
Shot down a few bad guys during VN????
Not much else that I’ve ever heard about.
When he was nominated for POTUS, I was more embarrassed then the cycle they put Bob the Bore Dole up.
I mentioned this before, but as early as the early 80s, when a friend in the CA Air National Guard was going through War College programs for advancement, he told me that ALL the conflict scenarios being studied then - EVEN THIRTY YEARS AGO NOW - were based on threats originating in the sands of the Middle East, raghead/muslim nations.
ALL OF THE SCENARIOS - EVERY POTENTIAL MAJOR CONFLICT.
Think about that for just a few seconds ..... Arab Spring, Muslim BroHood, the infection of US Gubmint and Educational Institutions and Society in general was well known THIRTY YEARS AGO and was ALLOWED TO CONTINUE ......
Many "Christians" hold beliefs directly contradictory to the Bible. Yes, religiously tolerant "Muslims" are heretics - but it's a good heresy and I see no value in rubbing their noses in it.
The history of Islam's practitioners speaks for itself. Islam, by the very nature of its own doctrine, history and by the actions of its followers has shown itself to be the existential enemy of Western civilization. Dr. Andrew Bostom's The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims provides insight into the Islamic mindset and what its ascendancy might mean for the rest of us:
Lee Harris' outstanding work, The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West explains why and how the West's days may be numbered. We are our own worst enemy unless we face up to the hard choices necessary to remain a free and prosperous people.
If anyone is still having trouble wrapping their minds around the fact that Western civilization does in fact have mortal and existential enemies, take a quick turn through Lee Harris' Civilization and Its Enemies
Let us also dispense with the idea that Islam is a religion. Islam is not so much a religion as it is a supremacist, totalitarian political ideology, a destructive and murderous meme impervious to moderation or change, and with a narrowly circumscribed set of rituals that define every aspect of its followers’ lives. As for 'tolerance', here's a quote from the Muslim Brotherhood and their mission in the U.S, calling for...
"...a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions."
Speaking to the “Islam is a religion of peace," assertion that we hear from Muslims and ignorant (yes, ignorant) Westerners, when Muslims assert that Islam is a “religion of peace” they are not engaging in al taqqiya, they are actually making an assertion in good faith.
The problem lies in the fact that Islam has, from the Western point of view, a defective concept of peace. In semitic languages like Arabic, the consonants are the “root” of the word: islam = submission, and salam = peace have the same root, slm.
The only concept of peace in Islamic jurisprudence is the peace between the conqueror and the conquered, between master and slave. There is no concept of a negotiated peace between nations in Islamic law (note that law is the defining property of Islam—their clerics are jurists, schools of Qu’ranic interpretation are called fiqh, a legalistic term)—Muslims may negotiate a “hudna” or armistice of limited duration with non-Muslim, but not a definitive enduring peace.
In that regard, Islam was, is and will continue to be a serial murderer of entire cultures and peoples. This is precisely what Islam has done throughout its entire 1400 year history. This is what it has done whenever it has finally gotten the upper hand in whatever culture it has infiltrated. This is what has been inextricably interwoven into the DNA of its operating system. Those whom Islam does not destroy, it enslaves, diminishes and impoverishes. Islam strives for the conversion, enslavement or death of all who do not conform to its cruel and sadistic vision of Mankind. Advocates of Islamic ‘reform’ are sadly mistaken and deluded. Islam cannot be ‘reformed’ in the light of our Western values of humanity and freedom. Were that so, it would no longer be Islam. For its psychopathic and brutal misogyny alone, Islam is an abomination and worthy only of extinction.
The best and most concise description of the Islamic mindset was laid out almost as an aside by noted historian and philosopher, Carroll Quigley in his landmark Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time. Here, he describes what he characterized as The Pakistani-Peruvian axis. An excerpt from that work is shown below:
Another aspect of Arabic society is the scorn of honest, steady manual work, especially agricultural work. This is a consequence of the fusion of at least three ancient influences. First, the archaic bureaucratic structure of Asiatic despotism, in which the peasants supported the warriors and scribes, regarded manual workers, especially tillers of the soil, as the lowest layer of society, and regarded the acquisition of literacy and military prowess as the chief roads to escape from physical drudgery. Second, the fact that Classical Antiquity, whose influence on the subsequent Islamic civilization was very great, was based on slavery, and came to regard agricultural (or other manual) work as fit for slaves, also contributed to this idea. Third, the Bedouin tradition of pastoral, warlike nomads scorned tillers of the soil as weak and routine persons of no real spirit or character, fit to be conquered or walked on but not to be respected. The combination of these three formed the lack of respect of manual work that is so characteristic of the Pakistani-Peruvian axis.Somewhat similar to this lack of respect for manual work are a number of other aspects of traditional Arab life that have spread the length of the Pakistani-Peruvian axis. The chief source of many of these is the Bedouin outlook, which originally reflected the attitudes of relatively small group of the Islamic culture but which, because they were a superior, conquering group, came to be copied by others in the society, even by the despised agricultural workers. These attitudes include lack of respect for the soil, for vegetation, for most animals, and for outsiders. These attitudes, which are singularly ill-fitted for the geographic and climatic conditions of the whole Pakistani-Peruvian area, are to be seen constantly in the everyday life of that area as erosion, destruction of vegetation and wild life, personal cruelty and callousness to most living things, including one’s fellow men, and a general harshness and indifference to God’s creation. This final attitude, which well reflects the geographic conditions of the area, which seem as harsh and indifferent as man himself, is met by those men who must face it in their daily life as a resigned submission to fate and to the inhumanity of man to man.
Interestingly enough, these attitudes have successfully survived the efforts of the three great religions of ethical monotheism, native to the area, to change these attitudes. The ethical sides of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam sought to counteract harshness, egocentricity, tribalism, cruelty, scorn of work and of one’s fellow creatures, but these efforts, on the whole, have met with little success throughout the length of the Pakistani-Peruvian axis. Of the three, Christianity, possibly because it set the highest standards of the three, has fallen furthest from achieving its aims. Love, humility, brotherhood, cooperation, the sanctity of work, the fellowship of community, the image of man as a fellow creature made in the image of God, respect for women as personalities and partners of men, mutual helpmates on the road to spiritual salvation, and the vision of our universe, with all of its diversity, complexity, and multitude of creatures, as a reflection of the power and goodness of God – these basic aspects of Christ’s teachings are almost totally lacking throughout the Pakistani-Peruvian axis and most notably absent on the “Christian” portion of that axis from Sicily, or even the Aegean Sea, westward to Baja California and Tierra del Fuego.
Throughout the whole axis, human actions are not motivated by these “Christian virtues,” but by the more ancient Arabic personality traits, which become vices and sins in the Christian outlook: harshness, envy, lust, greed, selfishness, cruelty, and hatred.
Quigley believed that Islam possessed an “ethical” aspect. However that may be, it is overshadowed and essentially silenced by the actions of its adherents. As I have previously stated, Islam is an abomination and worthy only of extinction.
He was a “Light” Attack Naval “Aviator” He didn;t “Shoot” down CRAP!
GOOD!
Yep. Though if he doesn't resign, the Senate can remove him.
If a senator is appointed as an ambassador does he/she retain the seat for the rest of the six years?
The traditional approach has been for senators to resign, but if he didn't, I'm not sure there's any mechanism other than the Senate itself by which he can be removed. Unless being out of the country qualifies as a "vacancy" under the 17th.
If a senator dies, do they prop the corpse in the seat until the six years is up?
17th Amendment again: "When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of each State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct."
You will, however,note that while the 17th contains provisions delegating filling of vacancies to the state executive and legislative entities, there is no such provision for recall.
IMO recalling a senator might not be a bad idea, but would require a (federal) constitutional amendment.
Congressional Research Service report on whether sitting members of Congress can be recalled.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL30016.pdf
Answer: No.
Better yet, recall (repeal) the 17th Amendment.
The House was formed to represent the people. The Senate was formed to serve the interests of the states, hence the (original) selection of senators by their respective state legislatures. Senators are now nothing more than higher-profile representatives, no different than Congresscritters.
But doing away with the 17th, we would gives the states back their voices and (I believe) slash the amount of money “contributed” but out-of-state people and organizations. And we all know how “contributions” seem a lot like investments.
So, just keep laughing at McLame. He isn’t running for another term anyway, is he?
Anyone who calls a threat a ‘threat’ could be a threat.
I think the word you were looking for is SENILE!
THX for the heads up, I’m victim of the Myth. And please clarify what “Light” Attack Naval “Aviator” specifically was/is.
;-}
“Light” Attack Naval “Aviator” is any US Navy or Marine Corps “Aviator(they don’t like being called “Pilots”)” that flys/flew A-4s(1960s-mid 1980s), A-7s(Late 1960s-early 1990s) or F/A-18s(1980s-now).
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