Posted on 09/02/2017 2:17:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. John McCain issued a plea for bipartisan cooperation as Congress returns from its extended summer recess, saying pragmatism, compromise and mutual respect are more critical than ever given what he considers the lack of experience emanating from the White House.
"That has never been truer than today, when Congress must govern with a president who has no experience of public office, is often poorly informed and can be impulsive in his speech and conduct," McCain wrote Thursday in a Washington Post op-ed.
"We must respect his authority and constitutional responsibilities," the Arizona Republican said of President Donald Trump. "We must, where we can, cooperate with him. But we are not his subordinates. We don't answer to him. We answer to the American people. We must be diligent in discharging our responsibility to serve as a check on his power. And we should value our identity as members of Congress more than our partisan affiliation."
The plea comes as Congress reconvenes from the August recess to a packed agenda that includes keeping the government funded, raising the debt ceiling and possibly working on legislation to address the federal budget, border security and immigration, tax reform and infrastructure spending....
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Lincoln only had one two-year term in Congress and Grant & Eisenhower never held public office. Would McCain have railed against them had he been in congress at the time?
Apparently McCain forgot that people wanted Obamacare overturned....his brain thingy must really be bad. But hey, he’s a man of hon,,,,,never mind, he’s a self absorbed guy who loves the limelight and is a jerk
Hell, he was always one brain cell away from talking monkey anyway; and now that it's gone why would anybody listen to a word he says?
Come on cancer get past the goalie! You have a clean breakaway.
“Congress must govern with a president who has no experience of public office,”
McLame is FOS, Congress doesn’t “Govern,” the President does. When he gets to Hell, he will find out that Satan does the ‘”governing!”
>>But we are not his subordinates. We don’t answer to him. We answer to the American people.
In a Representative Democracy, you answer to those who elected you to represent them. In the case of Republicans, those people are the same ones who voted for Trump, who is the Chief Executive of all the Americans.
But McCain and Ryan answer to the Cheap Labor Express and the Progressive media and ignore “the ones who brung em.”
Trump hate is really eating his brain. The guy is miserable. Hopefully for his sake it will end soon.
FOAD McCain.
Hey mc cain STFU AND RETIRE YOU USLESS POS !
McCain is the Hanoi candidate. He needs to shut his friggin Lie Hole.
What a small man you are, John McCain. And a loser to boot.
Is this POS McCain so disrespectful towards our President because:
1. He can’t be out of the news more than 24 hour or his ego goes limp.
2. That wasn’t a tumor they removed. It was most of his brain.
3. He’s still upset because Trump questioned his status as a war “hero.”
4. He hates Republican voters because they elected Trump and not him.
5. He’s just a complete asshole.
6. All of the above.
Please go away!
He signs the bill a-hole. You are the people’s subordinate.
Dear Senator McCain,
out here in voter-land,
the issue is NOT whether you or DJT is boss
the issue is that you’re blocking, undermining the things we voted for
yes, DJT is not your boss ... but we are.....got it?
What a loathsome creature!
Good Lord the Stench of all the experience emanating from Washington DC is why Donald Trump was elected president.
A very sad little man.
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