Posted on 05/06/2015 4:57:36 AM PDT by cotton1706
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain on Tuesday shot down a proposal that would move toward allowing some illegal immigrants to serve in the military.
The Arizona Republican, who is up for reelection in 2016, said there is no way he will accept provisions like those being pushed in the House related to President Obama’s deferred deportation program.
“We’re not doing anything on immigration on the NDAA,” McCain told The Hill, referring to legislation that authorizes spending levels for the military.
McCain’s opposition could be a death knell for two provisions in the House’s draft of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and could be a sign he will tack to the right on immigration ahead of his reelection race. The senator, who was the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2008, was given reason to worry on Tuesday after the liberal-leaning Public Policy Polling found that only 21 percent of Arizonans approve of the job McCain is doing, while 71 percent disapprove.
The pollster concluded that McCain is vulnerable to a primary challenge from the right, emboldening conservative groups who are already working to take him down.
Some of the right’s disdain for McCain dates back to his work on the immigration reform bill that passed the Senate in 2013, which he helped negotiate as a member of the so-called Gang of Eight.
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And time to secure the border first for the third time, or is it the fourth or fifth?
He’s The Juan we’ve been waiting for....
Arizona... please surprise us. DON’T ELECT THIS PUTZ AGAIN!!!
The 2-FACED RINO
I can see John McPain winning still another term in 2022. People in AZ are slow to catch on.
I hate seeing the U.S. military being used to create more lowlife, America-hating Xeno-RAT voters.
Come on, AZ, don’t be played for suckers by this buffoon again.
McCainiac doing his conservative impression before reelection....
Well, if he is doing the right thing for the wrong reason, it is still a plus.
I remember six years ago he pulled the same `conservative basketball’ stunt: Juan-on-Juan.
From the noises and moves he was making, you woulda thunk he wasn’t a moderate Democrat.
Remember his last campaign ad “build the dang fence” but he forgot to mention he only wanted it 1 foot high and 4 feet long.Hopefully his next election campaign will wind up 6 feet under.
The 2-FACED RINO
Thank goodness for the election cycle. LOL!
I’ll vote for McCain right after he completes that danged fence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0lwusMxiHc
Instead, McCain has been making Arizona safe for home invasions.
McCain’s opponents are going to showing this McCain 2000 campaign commercial for their 2016 campaign ads against McCain
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