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McCain regains his maverick reputation by bucking Trump
washingtontimes.com ^ | 2/8/17 | S.A. Miller

Posted on 02/09/2017 9:43:03 AM PST by ColdOne

The maverick is back.

Sen. John McCain once again is basking in the media spotlight as the go-to Republican on Capitol Hill for voicing opposition to the Republican in the White House. This time, he’s bucking President Trump and doing it with newfound vim.

In Mr. Trump’s first two weeks in office, Mr. McCain broke with him over the decision to scrap the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, said his proposed import tax on U.S. businesses relocated to Mexico was “insane” and took the lead in raising alarm about the reorganization of the National Security Council.

He also found a reason to blast Rep. Mick Mulvaney, Mr. Trump’s nominee for the key post running the Office of Management and Budget. He said the longtime deficit hawk had spent his career pushing cuts to defense spending.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: juanmccain; mclame; rino; tpp
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To: ColdOne

Meaning he’s now popular with the press again since he’s not running for prez and a repub is in the white house.


41 posted on 02/09/2017 10:28:41 AM PST by fruser1
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To: G Larry
McCain is 80, so there's that. Tick tock.
42 posted on 02/09/2017 10:32:22 AM PST by Rebelrage ("To crush your enemies -- See them driven, and to hear the lamentation of their women")
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To: ColdOne

How in the world is McCain considered a “Maverick”? His entire philosophy of life is, “Hell no, we won’t grow! Must maintain the Status quo!” Yes, he’s fighting Trump, but only to keep things right on the same disastrous track that we’ve elected Trump to fix. Maverick my left hind foot!


43 posted on 02/09/2017 10:37:41 AM PST by 75thOVI ("The crews of all submarines captured should be treated as pirates and hanged". Sir Arthur Wilson)
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To: 75thOVI

Soros in Yiddish is Troubles

McCain is Trouble or GOP Presidents, Bush had McCain and Graham on his back for years, Obama not at all, McCain only behaves when the enemy is in the White House


44 posted on 02/09/2017 10:40:49 AM PST by Zenjitsuman (Y)
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To: ColdOne

Why can’t evil people like McCain (or Ted Kennedy) just die in their sleep?


45 posted on 02/09/2017 10:42:09 AM PST by montag813
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To: ColdOne

No! McCain was always an idiot Rino even during the Obama years. Still fuming J.D. Hayworth and Kelli Ward could not taken down. What are they smoking in Arizona with McCain and Flake? Still angry he was our nominee in 2008.


46 posted on 02/09/2017 10:42:34 AM PST by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.)
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To: ColdOne

Main is a Bucking idiot.


47 posted on 02/09/2017 10:42:39 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: ColdOne

https://youtu.be/ITdexO82iiI


48 posted on 02/09/2017 10:46:25 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: ColdOne

McDemocRat blows Grahamnesty ...no new news aka faker news...


49 posted on 02/09/2017 10:47:38 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (FU Shmuckie Shoomer (Rat-NY) and Prick Durbin(Rat-IL))
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To: ColdOne

McShame is a total POS and not even worth a look at what he has to say.


50 posted on 02/09/2017 10:48:35 AM PST by New Jersey Realist (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: ColdOne

McRINO. AZ should be ashamed of themselves.


51 posted on 02/09/2017 10:49:19 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: ColdOne

Crazy McCain is no maverick, he’s just a liberal Democrat who lobbies for war while pretending to be, and not to well at that, a Republican.


52 posted on 02/09/2017 10:49:50 AM PST by apocalypto
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To: ColdOne
McCain regains reinforces his maverick Soros sellout reputation by bucking Trump

Fixed it!

53 posted on 02/09/2017 10:53:03 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: DoughtyOne

Someone needs to bring some of Songbirds colleagues out of retirements and let them talk about his helpfulness with the Vietnamese.

McIsane talks about a the cost of the SEALS’s training and compares it to a plane, how many planes, some through pilot error, did you crash and burn Songbird???


54 posted on 02/09/2017 11:07:02 AM PST by sarge83
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To: ColdOne

Being Senile is not the same as being a maverick.

He needs placing in a nursing home.


55 posted on 02/09/2017 11:13:38 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: sarge83

Believe me, we’re on the same page on that.


56 posted on 02/09/2017 11:14:49 AM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: ColdOne

57 posted on 02/09/2017 11:39:10 AM PST by Wayne07
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To: ColdOne

I’m sick of this vile man.


58 posted on 02/09/2017 11:40:27 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: ColdOne

McCain is jealous. He is a vindictive person and not to be trusted. He wantsthe fancy title of Maverick but he does little to earn same. He is just Anti-”ANYTHING” to obtain publicity and money.


59 posted on 02/09/2017 11:41:50 AM PST by DrDude (To the Victor go the spoils! Kick A$$ Trump.)
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To: Zenjitsuman
Tsores or tsuris are yiddish for troubles.

Origin and Etymology of tsuris

Yiddish tsures, tsores, plural of tsure, tsore trouble, distress, from Hebrew ṣārāh

First Known Use: 1901

60 posted on 02/09/2017 11:47:40 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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