Posted on 05/05/2018 8:25:15 PM PDT by huckfillary
On June 20, Arizona Senator John McCain was diagnosed with a type of brain tumor known as a primary glioblastoma. The next day, he underwent brain surgery to remove a blood clot.
Now, there was a part of me – an admittedly foolish, naive part – that wondered: could this be what it takes to wake John McCain from his murderous, warmongering haze? After decades of supporting violent regime change, could this close encounter with death lead to a change of heart?
The answer, of course, is a resounding no.
John McCain is still a stooge for the elite. His interests are wholly establishment; any concern for the wellbeing of the American people – or any people outside of his family and, of course, suspected lover, Lindsay Graham – remains as elusive as Hillary's missing emails.
If anything, McCain's behavior has only grown more despicable since the dawn of his recent health problems.
First, McCain, in an act of remarkable (read: irritating) perseverance, flew to Washington less than a week after his aforementioned surgery to vote – in support, mind you – for the Better Care Reconciliation Act, a laughable piece of legislation introduced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Amusingly, the Arizona senator originally said that he wouldn't vote for the BCRA. However, six hours after making such a proclamation, he voted for it.
Next, on Wednesday, McCain – along with five other Republicans – voted against Senator Rand Paul's clean Obamacare repeal bill, the Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act of 2017. While this bill certainly wasn't perfect, repealing Obamacare has been a major Republican goal – or so they claim – for years.
In fact, in 2015 McCain promised to support the repeal of Obamacare, stating, “It is clear that any serious attempt to improve our health care system must begin with a full repeal and replacement of Obamacare, and I will continue fighting on behalf of the people of Arizona to achieve it.”
Finally, to make things worse, McCain publicly denounced Donald Trump's recent announcement that transgenders would no longer be allowed to serve in the American military.
So not only is this supposedly conservative senator opposed to repealing Obamacare, but he's also in support of “social justice” policies in the military.
Brilliant.
With the shadow of death drawing ever nearer, I find it quite odd that John McCain remains committed to being such a terrible human being. Were I in his situation, I'd be thumbing a rosary with sweaty hands, worried about the prospects of eternal damnation.
But given McCain's earthly obedience to the malicious forces that rule from the shadows, it wouldn't be too far-fetched to presume that McCain has a swanky condo awaiting him in the underworld.
Sarah WAS the ticket. McCain was just a doddering old fool then.
Like now.
John McCain: “I don’t think I need to tell you that there are jobs that Americans will not do. I don’t think I have to tell you that there are ... the backbone of our economy...
Audience members: “Pay them the right wages.”
20 seconds...
https://youtu.be/EOvSer4udtM
John McCain: “You know I’ve heard that statement before. Now, my friends, I’ll offer anybody here fifty dollars an hour if you’ll go pick lettuce in Yuma this season and pick for the whole season. So, ok, sign up! Ok, when you sign up, you sign up, and you’ll be there for the whole season, the whole season, ok, not just one day. Because you can’t do it, my friend.”
20 seconds...
https://youtu.be/EOvSer4udtM
That’s right my friends. You can’t work for $100,000 American dollars...
Heh. Love the tag. I want to see him dragged out in chains first. Sigh.
WHY? To replace the one he crashed?
(with taxpayer money)
McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/mccain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five-6431838
McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five
You’re John McCain, a fallen hero who wanted to become president so desperately that you sold yourself to Charlie Keating, the wealthy con man who bears such an incredible resemblance to The Joker.
Obviously, Keating thought you could make it to the White House, too.
He poured $112,000 into your political campaigns. He became your friend. He threw fund raisers in your honor. He even made a sweet shopping-center investment deal for your wife, Cindy. Your father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was cut in on the deal, too.
Nothing was too good for you. Why not? Keating saw you as a prime investment that would pay off in the future.
So he flew you and your family around the country in his private jets. Time after time, he put you up for serene, private vacations at his vast, palatial spa in the Bahamas. All of this was so grand. You were protected from what Thomas Hardy refers to as “the madding crowd.” It was almost as though you were already staying at a presidential retreat.
Like the old song, that now seems “Long ago and far away.”
Since Keating’s collapse, you find yourself doing obscene things to save yourself from the Senate Ethics Committee’s investigation. As a matter of course, you engage in backbiting behavior that will turn you into an outcast in the Senate if you do survive.
They say that if you put five lobsters into a pot and give them a chance to escape, none will be able to do so before you light the fire. Each time a lobster tries to climb over the top, his fellow lobsters will pull him back down. It is the way of lobsters and threatened United States senators.
And, of course, that’s the way it is with the Keating Five. You are all battling to save your own hides. So you, McCain, leak to reporters about who did Keating’s bidding in pressuring federal regulators to change the rules for Lincoln Savings and Loan.
When the reporters fail to print your tips quickly enough—as in the case of your tip on Michigan Senator Donald Riegle—you call them back and remind them how important it is to get that information in the newspapers.
The story of “the Keating Five” has become a scandal rivaling Teapot Dome and Watergate. The outcome will be decided, not in a courtroom, but probably on national television.
Those who survive will be the sociopaths who can tell a lie with the most sincere, straight face. You are especially adept at this.
Last Friday night, on The John McLaughlin Show, which features well-known Washington journalists, the subject of the Keating Five was discussed. Panelist Jack Germond suggested that three of the Keating Five were probably already through in politics.
So you spend your days desperately trying to make sure you will be one of the survivors. You keep volunteering to go on radio and television stations to protest your innocence. Last week you made ABC’s Nightline.
Not long before that you somehow managed to get James Kilpatrick, the national columnist, to write a favorable paragraph about you. Last Sunday morning, you made it to national television again; this time on ABC’s This Week With David Brinkley. You smiled at the panel with your usual studied insouciance. Sitting next to you was Senator John Glenn of Ohio.
Brinkley, Sam Donaldson, and George Will were the interrogators.
It was a sobering scene. There you sat with Glenn, both sweating before the cameras, waiting to answer questions: two badly tarnished American icons.
No one forgets that Glenn was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. You won’t let anyone forget that you were a prisoner of war. But you have played that tune too long. By now your constant reminders about your war record make you seem like a modern version of Arthur Miller’s tragic failure Willy Loman.
Clearly, both you and Glenn sold your fame for Charles Keating’s money.
It was a Faustian bargain. It was also a bad joke on the rest of us and a disaster for many old people who lost their life’s savings to Keating.
The money was never really Keating’s to give. But he never would have got his hands on it if you and the rest of the Keating Five didn’t halt the government takeover for two long years while Keating’s people continued their looting.
And now, the tab for the Savings and Loan heist must be paid from taxpayer pockets.
On Sunday, Senators Dennis DeConcini, Alan Cranston, and Riegle refused offers to appear on the Brinkley show. What must we make of that?
You, the closest of them to Keating and the deepest in his debt, have chosen the path of the hard sell. You may even make it out of the pot, but to many, your protestations of innocence taste like gall.
You are determined to bluff your way. You will stick to your story that you were acting to help a constituent and intended to do nothing improper. The very fact you attended the meeting makes you guilty, just as every man who entered the Brinks vault went to prison.
You insist that an accounting firm Keating hired told you Lincoln was sound. Alan Greenspan, who Keating also hired, wrote a report saying it was sound. Why shouldn’t you believe the people Keating hired? You were, after all, fellow employees.
Perhaps you might silence your own conscience about all this someday.
Just keep telling everyone that it was your wife’s money invested in that shopping center with Keating and that you knew nothing about it.
Keep saying that cynical newspaper people don’t understand that every move you make has always been for the enrichment of Arizona . . . the education of our Native Americans on the reservations . . . for the love of the elderly in Sun City and Green Valley.
Keep telling them that it wasn’t that you were bought off but that Charlie Keating got special help only because he was one of the biggest employers in the state.
Just keep sitting there and staring into the camera and denying that Keating bought you for money and jet plane trips and vacations.
So what if he gave you $112,000? Just keep smiling at the cameras and saying you did nothing wrong.
Maybe the voters will understand you took those tiring trips to Charlie’s place in the Bahamas in their behalf. Certainly, they can understand you wanted to take your family along. A senator deserves to travel on private jets, removed from the awful crush of public transportation.
You sought out a master criminal like Keating and became his friend. Now you’ve discarded him. It shouldn’t be surprising that you are now in the process of selling out your senatorial accomplices.
You’re John McCain, clearly the guiltiest, most culpable and reprehensible of the Keating Five. But you know the power of television and you realize this is the only way you can possibly save your political career.
And, at that moment there were thousands of Laborers Local 78 Union Members standing in ditches, in sewerage in NYC (one of the highest paying locals) shovel at work at $20/hr.
LOL Do you remember when Freepers sent resumes to McCain for that lettuce comment? That was years ago and I’m still waiting to hear from him.
In truth, you or I couldn’t do that kind of job because the illegals would either make it very unpleasant for you, you would meet with an unfortunate accident, or you simply would never be seen again. They aren’t going to let gringos in on their action. They do it on a smaller scale at places like McDonald’s, where they can’t afford to let white teenagers have the jobs they used to routinely have in high school. McCain not only doesn’t care about any of that, he helped make it possible.
I sure do.
$100k to pick frickin lettuce?
Moron thinks it’s hot sweaty work in the desert.
grows best with moderate daytime temperatures (73oF) and cool nights (45oF).
In fact, most lettuce (more than 70%) is grown in the Salinas Valley of California.
The weather is cool and if you look at the pictures of the linked article, you will see the pickers in long sleeve shirts and jeans.
The Salinas area rarely sees temps above 75 degrees.
My kind of weather and I should know.
I’m in Gilroy to the north and frequently travel to Salinas and the area surrounding.
I love cold weather and for $100k picking lettuce would be a fine job and no sweat...
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6796398
Forgot to link the article
McCain is Obama with a better resume who calls himself a "maverick" implying he's a conservative who sometimes votes the other way but really meaning he just says he's a conservative to get elected but always votes the other way. I suppose defense spending might be a difference. Name another.
John McCain is a man who does his job. In 2008 his job was to run a bumbling, weak ass campaign to snore rather than lure voters.
Later he helped on various initiatives with “Syrian Rebels” and took a lead role in overturning an election.
Great man of the Establishment. Hell I almost forgot the Maverick Campaign Finance stuff. What a great piece of shit.
He is filled with self-hate for all the despicable things he has done to his fellow Americans.
It is about time someone wrote it down. RINOs are just liberals in conservative clothing and thus are horrible people.
JoMa
Level 9 - Cocytus
This is the deepest level of hell, where the fallen angel Satan himself resides. His wings flap eternally, producing chilling cold winds that freeze the thick ice found in Cocytus.
The three faces of Satan, black, red, and yellow, can be seen with mouths gushing bloody foam and eyes forever weeping, as they chew on the three traitors, Judas, Brutus, and Cassius.
This place is furthest removed from the source of all light and warmth. Sinners here are frozen deep in the ice, faces out, eyes and mouths frozen shut. Traitors against God, country, family, and benefactors lament their sins in this frigid pit of despair.
Term limits will rid DC of horrible people like this.
Where you live reminds me of “Of Mice And Men.”
Thank you for the link on Yuma. I’ve never been there.
I did go to Phoenix for a couple of protests. JD Hayworth and 2nd. A., also made it to protest a DNC event.
My how time flies.
He made a mistake when Sarah Palin was his running mate. Most of us voted for her hoping JMcC would keel over.
Like fat head ted they all think with their pockets, they could care less about America and American values
He is, and he had better repent. Right now, he is lost and headed for a Christless grave if he continues standing for all that is sin and treachery.
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