As far as I am concerned the only explanation for this man's conduct is that he is, in fact, a real life
notice the face of the Sinatra character is blank ~ that's cause I'm still waiting for someone to finally fill that role!
Posted on 03/04/2005 2:57:34 PM PST by watchdog_writer
Senator McCain – tear down this wall
The good senator from Arizona, the Honorable John McCain who co-sponsored the Campaign Finance Reform bill still doesn’t get it. Senators McCain and Feingold now want to regulate the Internet, bloggers and e-mail. McCain started all this. I can’t say if he was misled or pressured to sponsor the bill. Anything is possible, but didn’t everyone know at the outset that finance reform only favors the democrats, and quite frankly, McCain should have known that as well. So the real question is why did he do it? We might also ask why he stated he had no confidence in Rumsfeld, or why he defended Kofi Annan, or why he criticized the White House on environmental issues. Come to think of it maybe he would make a good running mate for Hillary; after all she did support McCain for VP alongside Kerry? Some say McCain might run as an independent. They’re a little late. He’s already independent.
They call it campaign finance reform, but it’s just another clever way to control the voting public so that they remain ignorant liberal automatons. Programmed by liberal talking heads, liberal spin-doctors, and the MSM, voters pull the democrat lever like garbles pulling a lever for more feed.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly a Clinton appointee gave McCain what he asked for, and her decision has the potential to silence bloggers. "The commission's exclusion of Internet communications from the coordinated communications regulation severely undermines" the campaign finance law's purposes, Kollar-Kotelly wrote.[1] The “purpose” is to keep important information from the voting public so that they can be brainwashed by liberal news and television? They say it’s not a democratic plot to silence conservatives? Then why is it that three republican commissioners wanted to appeal the decision to keep the Internet free, but the three Democrats would not go along?
Actually Judge Kollar-Kotelly is only the most recent culprit. The finance bill actually exempted the Internet. I haven’t read her decision, but somehow she came up with some legal theory to invalidate the exemption. I’m quite sure she wasn’t’ thinking of “moveon” when she rendered her decision. The fact is that only under-financed websites need the protection, and moveon has plenty of money to do whatever they want, and they don’t need to function on a hope and a prayer. Not that anyone at moveon believes in prayer anyway.
Why do you suppose this liberal judge allowed the exemption for news organizations to remain? What if every time the NY Times published an editorial favorable to a democrat it would amount to a political contribution? Since the ratio of liberal outlets to conservative outlets is probably 100 to 1, or even more, naturally the democrats don’t want to shut down their operatives. And since the democrats, and I blame the republicans for this, control most of the judgeships, the democrats control the country, and it’s about time that everyone besides freepers understands it.
The campaign finance law limits the press exemption to a "broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine or other periodical publication”. What about a newspaper or periodical that has an online website, like the NY Times? I’m not so sure how the army of liberal judges will get around it, but you can bet the NY Times website will be able to say whatever it wants. I’m not as confident however that the Weekly Standard will enjoy the same exception?
By the time the liberals finish with McCain he will have been responsible for the most incomprehensible, anti-conservative legislation since the internal revenue code. I’m looking for McCain to step up to the plate and correct his error, but I’m not holding my breath.
The issue is not that the Internet favors republicans and therefore the democrats are against it. They have the same, and even greater access to the Internet than do republicans. The issue is that the DEMOCRATS DON’T NEED THE INTERNET. Get it, general public? They have everything else.
Democrats may be the minority party at the moment, but they are still running the country through the media and judiciary, so get used to it friends.
As for walling up the bloggers, I say: Senator McCain, “tear down this wall.”
McCain is like al Dumocrats, no program or policy is wrong. It just needs to be expanded.
I respect Sen. McCain for what he went through and all that, but he is damaged, he needs to retire, go home and enjoy his life, quit tormenting us.
Agreed. You would think he would be embarrassed to even mention this piece of trash Legislation after what happened in the last election. I don't hear him complaining about foreigners bankrolling 527's. so who does he want to shut up. the Internet.
He did it becaues it favors INCUMBENTS. McCain is part of the permanent political class, and has all the false sense of entitlement that goes with it.
He does not want any opponent of John McCain to have the right to say bad things about John McCain.
Lord Acton famously stated, "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." (29) The great thing about a Republic is that almost all power is concentrated at the local or individual level, thus limiting corruption. This is why it has always been perplexing to see the attempts to unconstitutionally restrict the actions of free individuals with all of these campaign finance reform laws that never ever end up working. The simple solution is to reduce the power of the Federal government! If government doesn't have the power to do anything, then why should private industry give money to political candidates? The more power the Federal government has, the more money and corruption will flow in and out of the system. In the Federal government today even non-partisan boards, panels, commissions, and agencies with power become corrupted; members leave and take high paying jobs in the industries they are supposed to regulate; cronyism and political favoritism run rife. The corruption and special interest benefit is derived from the power itself. The power needs to be returned to the individual.
from the link in my tag line.
"What.. Im from a state whose borders are being overrun and I dont even ackowledge it???"
Right on. Kudos to you. Major truth: the Democrats are still running the country. With friends like McCain, who needs an enemy? I'm madder than H-.
I hadn't thought of it that way but you make a good point
Fair and honest reporting and elections would hurt liberal Democrats somewhat, but it would hurt RINOs more. After all, the liberal Democrats could move to the right if they had to do so to recapture votes they could no longer get through fraud or deception. But if the populace moves right (or is revealed to be further to the right than is claimed), where can RINOs go? The only reason anyone gives them the time of day is that "conservatives can't get elected". If that stopped being true, RINOs would lose their whole raison d'être.
I think his behavior over the years has used up all his 'Get out of Jail Free' cards from being a vet. And just to have some fun with Godwin's Law, Hitler was also a veteran.
Right you are but it's hardly false, the permanent political class enjoys things us common people never dream of.
Were he Martha Stewart or any other non-pol he'd certainly still be in jail for his actions in the 80s with Charles Keating.
As far as I am concerned the only explanation for this man's conduct is that he is, in fact, a real life
notice the face of the Sinatra character is blank ~ that's cause I'm still waiting for someone to finally fill that role!
And his politics are definitely socialist/statist/elitist.
Actually I always thought that the credit for saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely was Machiavelli's.
-Machiavelli, The Prince, chapter XXV, circa 1516 AD.
Lord Acton lived between 1834 and 1902.
I have read 'the Prince' and looked in that Chapter but couldn't find it. Was that the right Chapter?
I checked and couldn't find the phrase in The Prince. Thank you setting me straight. I appreciate it.
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