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McCain Calls Nuclear Option Proponents ‘Stupid Idiots’
GOPUSA.com ^ | 5 Apr 17 | GOPUSA.com

Posted on 04/05/2017 12:05:59 PM PDT by seanmerc

Perpetual GOP malcontent Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called lawmakers “stupid” who believed invoking the so-called “nuclear option” to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court would ultimately improve the Senate, during a gaggle with reporters Tuesday.

The Arizona senator was prompted Tuesday by an unidentified reporter to react to individuals who say “the Senate will be a better place” after the nuclear option is invoked.

“I would like to meet that idiot,” McCain fired back, “I would like to meet that numbskull that would say that, that after 200 years — at least 100 years — of this tradition where the Senate has functioned pretty well, they think it’d be a good idea to blow it up.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: confirmgorsuch; insane; juanmccain; mccain; nuclearoption; rino
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To: seanmerc

Relax. McCain himself said he he’ll vote for the Nuclear Option just yesterday. I’m certainly no fan of RINO McCain, but he never said those who want to use the Nuclear Option are stupid idiots (as the title states). He said those who say the Senate will be a better place once the Filibuster is gone are stupid idiots.


41 posted on 04/05/2017 12:34:40 PM PDT by apillar
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To: Mears

He is only where he is because his totally failed dad was a WWII officer.

His dad was a totally incompetent “officer”. He got thousands of US military personnel killed while ‘asleep at the switch’.

That’s what got McInsane into pilot training in the Navy where he IMMEDIATELY crashed and burned and was a singing parrot for the enemy.

LOOSER times 1000 is a kind way of characterizing him. He should do the entire civilized world a favor and DISAPPEAR


42 posted on 04/05/2017 12:34:48 PM PDT by Huebolt (The FBI used to be the untouchables.ous.)
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To: seanmerc

Why can’t you just FKN DIE!


43 posted on 04/05/2017 12:35:52 PM PDT by Renegade
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To: seanmerc

Why can’t you just FKN DIE!


44 posted on 04/05/2017 12:36:09 PM PDT by Renegade
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To: Little Ray
Might have a point. Democrats are going to be in charge some day in the near future and with this precedent they can ram through anyone they like.

The last time the democrats had control they set the precedent we are now operating under. When they wanted to ram through objectionable appointment, they didn't talk about doing away with the filibuster, they actually did it. The only reason they did not include the supreme court appointment under they new rule was that there were no appointments pending. They did say, however, that if an appointment came up they would eliminate the filibuster if necessary to get them through. For anyone to now advocate that republicans refraining from eliminating the filibuster for supreme court nominations would be some kind of protection when democrats regain control is, to say the very least, quite naive. My uncharitable side would describe it as idiotic.

45 posted on 04/05/2017 12:38:42 PM PDT by etcb
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To: seanmerc

What is the standard for removing a Senator for mental incompetence?

I know the Dems don’t have one, as they have Senators voting while unconscious from their deathbeds.


46 posted on 04/05/2017 12:42:31 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: seanmerc

Why does McCain ALWAYS find fault with his own party while rarely criticizing the demofilth?
Makes you wonder...


47 posted on 04/05/2017 12:44:06 PM PDT by glasseye
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To: Huebolt
I don't know where you get that crap. Admiral John Sidney McCain, Sr. was quite a decorated hero of WWII.
48 posted on 04/05/2017 12:45:38 PM PDT by TigersEye (Unmask the Democrats! It's legal now. Ask Susan Rice or 0bama.)
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To: seanmerc

McCain, you and all of your current suppoters are the ‘Stupid Idiots’!!!!


49 posted on 04/05/2017 12:45:59 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: TigersEye

Notice the wording...
“make the senate better”.
I would tend to agree going nuclear does not make the senate ‘better’.
Who cares, the democrats brought this on themselves.
Best election ever!!!


50 posted on 04/05/2017 12:47:25 PM PDT by glasseye
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To: seanmerc

No reason is good enough for McCain, unless the Democrats use it.


51 posted on 04/05/2017 12:47:39 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: G Larry

The Senate as a whole can eject one of their own members (by two-thirds vote) without any other input. Article I, Section 5, Clause 2.


52 posted on 04/05/2017 12:49:37 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: seanmerc

The Democrats leave us with no alternative. The seat has to be filled.


53 posted on 04/05/2017 12:53:32 PM PDT by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: jjotto

Rats!

The Dems would never go along!


54 posted on 04/05/2017 12:55:52 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Huebolt
My bad, that last link was about his grandfather.

His father, John S. McCain Jr., was also a decorated war hero. I don't see any reference to an incident such as you've described.

McCain is bad enough, there's no need to make crap up about his father or the Forrestal fire or anything else. His own screwups make a mile long list.

55 posted on 04/05/2017 12:55:54 PM PDT by TigersEye (Unmask the Democrats! It's legal now. Ask Susan Rice or 0bama.)
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To: seanmerc

This guy has no business calling someone else stupid.


56 posted on 04/05/2017 1:03:50 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: G Larry

So does the GOP. When was the last time anyone saw or heard from Thad Cochran?


57 posted on 04/05/2017 1:21:54 PM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: seanmerc

McCain rhymes so very well with InSane


58 posted on 04/05/2017 1:29:36 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: seanmerc

Guess he got his marching orders from the Clintons.


59 posted on 04/05/2017 1:31:38 PM PDT by RedWulf (#purge the nevertrumpers)
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To: Darksheare

>Thank you Arizona for returning the Forrestal Arsonist to office yet again, he is such a shining example of conscious thought that I don’t know what we’d do without him, truly.
/ Heavy sarc

Didn’t Soros dump a lot of money into his primary to keep him around?


60 posted on 04/05/2017 1:32:26 PM PDT by RedWulf (#purge the nevertrumpers)
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