Thread: John McCain Attacks Conservatives

John McCain Attacks Conservatives

By Onan Coca / 11 October 2013


John McCain (R-AZ) is a hero of the Vietnam War. From everything we’ve been told about his harrowing experiences during his time as a Prisoner of War, he acted bravely -- heroically even -- and he should be given respect for that service to his country. Any man who is willing to lay his life on the line for his fellow citizen is worthy of our respect and admiration.
All of that being said… it’s time for John McCain to ride off into the sunset.

John McCain is becoming the Democrat’s best weapon in their war on the Republican Party.

For the last few weeks, Republicans and Democrats have been battling over who will be perceived as being most to blame for the government shutdown. As an Eagle Rising reader, you know that while we don’t fear the shutdown as much as some, we are thoroughly in the Republican corner when it comes to who should be blamed.
The Democrat Party is fully to blame for what is happening. The Democrats, led by Harry Reid and President Obama, have refused to negotiate even a jot or tittle of the budget in an attempt to end the impasse.
You wouldn’t know it by listening to John McCain.


Published on Oct 8, 2013
John McCain: We Should Be 'Embarrassed' About Shutdown, GOP Pushed 'False Premise' on Obamacare. John McCain has been one of the strongest Republican voices in Congress opposing the conservative efforts to repeal, defund, or delay Obamacare. He took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to continue pressing that point, as well as scolding Congress and saying they should all be "ashamed" for allowing the government shutdown to keep going.

McCain was set off by the news that during the shutdown, military benefits are being held up. He said Congress is so unpopular that "we're down to blood relatives and paid staffers" at this point, asking his colleagues, "Shouldn't we be embarrassed about this? Shouldn't we be ashamed?"

McCain called for both sides to "sit down and talk like grown-ups," and proceeded to revisit exactly why he hasn't been going along with the conservative fight on Obamacare. "Somehow, to think that we are going to repeal Obamacare, which would have required 67 Republican votes, of course, was a false premise, and I think did the American people a great disservice by convincing them that somehow we could."

He also addressed much of the cross-party and intra-party fighting going on in Washington, saying, "Stop attacking each other and impugning people's integrity and honor!"

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Leave it to John McCain to step onto the Senate floor and begin reciting the Democrats talking points over the politics of the shutdown. Obviously still annoyed at the tactic used by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) a couple of weeks ago, McCain continued to attack the repeal Obamacare effort.

“Somehow, to think that we are going to repeal Obamacare, which would have required 67 Republican votes, of course, was a false premise, and I think did the American people a great disservice by convincing them that somehow we could.”


Again, McCain exposes his shortsightedness in his belief that because repeal of Obamacare would be nigh impossible… it wasn’t worth fighting.
McCain truly believes that we didn’t realize that Obamacare would not be repealed. Of course, President Obama would veto the effort, if it made it that far. We all were aware of what was happening, Senator. The point wasn’t about repeal. The point was proving to the legislature, the media, and the world that Obamacare is unpopular and unwanted in the United States of America. The point was showing that the people, especially conservative Republicans, supported Republican efforts to defund Obamacare.
Now McCain continues to compound his failures with his disgusting attacks on conservative members of his own party. Please Senator McCain, don’t wait until 2016, retire now and let Arizonans elect a new Senator through a special election. You are no longer a useful member of the Republican Party, and you could serve your constituents and your party best by walking away.


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Hey Johnny Boy if anyone is an embarrassment it is you!! We also don't have a problem paying our bills, all our bills. Now hear this you delusional traitor you all have a spending problem, talk about dead ends!!!!! You think it is okay to hurt as many people as you can to get your way you for control of us, you and your Repugnant RINO'S and Demonic, Democ - rats. And hey Johnny Boy, if you think OBAMACARE is so good why did you all exempt yourselves from it.....

McCain's only job in Senate is selling weapons for the military complex, IMO and buddying with the Democrats.

http://www.alipac.us/f9/mark-levin-c...-obama-289964/

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EDITOR OF REDSTATE

Sequestration Is the Bipartisan Law of the Land. Fight on Obamacare.

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 13th, 2013 at 11:45 AM | 154

I was very disappointed to see Robert Costa of National Review use of the dollar sign in this tweet:

Robert Costa ✔ @robertcostaNRO

in short, growing # of Rs could care less about a con$ervative group's threats about not being Cruz-esque/CR warrior when BCA '11 at risk
12:02 AM - 13 Oct 2013


Praised recently by a lot of liberals in the press, invited to the White House to sit with Barack Obama, and now subtly suggesting the McConnell – Boehner – K Street GOP attack on Heritage Action for America, Senate Conservatives Fund, Club for Growth, and Madison Project is legit, i.e. they’re in it for the money.
That’s disappointing, but unsurprising.
In fact, the groups mentioned above, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Mark Meadows, Tom Graves, etc. are under withering fire from the media and their Republican colleagues. It’d be far easier to be in it for the money than principle. Then they’d get a fat check from K Street, pass a medical device tax repeal, and go on their merry way.
There’s a whole lot of projection in Washington these days. The crowd so used to collecting checks and letting those checks guide their policy are unused to people in it for principle.
Nonetheless, the rest of Robert Costa’s feed and others has boiled down to a fight over sequestration. The Democrats say that Obamacare is the law of the land so it cannot change. But Democrats want sequestration spending changed. It too is the law of the land.
There is, however, a fundamental difference between the two. Sequestration was agreed to in a bipartisan manner. Obamacare was forced through by Democrats using reconciliation as a means of getting around Republican opposition.
Democrats and Republicans both had a seat at the table for reconciliation. Democrats ensured the GOP had no seat at the table for Obamacare.
So the GOP should hold on sequestration and offer nothing. That was previously negotiated between the Democrats and the Republicans in a bipartisan manner. It’s time now to revisit Obamacare and either defund it or delay it.
They are both the law of the land, but of those two laws only one was forced through by bending congressional rules to ensure the other party could be ignored. To paraphrase the President’s preacher, the chickens are coming home to roost now.

Tags: obamacare, reconciliation, Robert Costa, sequestration

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