Posted on 01/18/2015 9:35:05 AM PST by Olog-hai
Sen. John McCain is waging another national campaign—this time, to define his legacy.
After two unsuccessful presidential bids, the 78-year-old former Navy pilot and Vietnam prisoner of war has rebounded as the chairman of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee. The post gives the Arizona Republican a significant say on national security—and a chance to ensure that his loss to Barack Obama in the 2008 White House race isn’t the final word in the colorful McCain chronicles.
McCain wants to prod the Obama administration, which he derides as feckless, to adopt a tougher policy against worldwide threats. He wants budget and spending changes at the Pentagon.
A defense hawk in a party with a growing number of noninterventionists—he once dismissed a few as “wacko birds”—McCain wants to help educate new senators. …
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His legacy is a confused Republican brand and Obama’s entry into the oval office. Spit.
Congress has surrendered all power to the Executive Branch. There are no "powerful Senate Committees."
Committing seppuku to atone for his innumerable idiocies would be an ideal legacy.
Burning and flushing the putrid remains would be an great topper.
And,leaving money for removing all mention of his life would also be nice.
McCain can do whatever he wants to,to try to reshape his public image.The sad fact is,no matter what he does now-people are going to be lined up around the block to piss on his grave.
Benedict McCain.
And to the courts.
For years, I’ve referred to him as John Judas McCain.
That works, too.
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