McCain Ego Out of Joint: Anti-Republican / Pro-Filibuster

Magic City Morning Star ^ | 4/17/05 | J. Grant Swank

[Valin]

I wonder sometimes if Senator John McCain is salivating for presidential power just a bit too much. It’s shown before; it’s showing again. Then again, when McCain gets out of the press limelight for a short time, he hankers for media center stage once more. Therefore, he goes off half-bent. It’s that time for bend-out time this week for the Arizona Senator.

Filibuster.

That’s the latest issue in the Senate. It’s hot time in the Congressional house tonight. Therefore, McCain sees his chance to stir the pot a bit. So he’s angering Republicans by saying he’s just not going to support anti-filibuster Republicans. And with that, Dems are running to McCain’s Amen corner.

Come on, McCain. America just doesn’t need your confusing mode. In fact, America really doesn’t need you, particularly with all the preening you’ve got in recent times for prospectus Presidential candidate come 2008.

According to The Washington Times’ Charles Hurt, “McCain irks Republicans over anti-filibuster option.

“Sen. John McCain has once again enraged Republicans by publicly opposing Majority Leader Bill Frist's plan to employ the so-called nuclear option for ending the filibusters against President Bush's judicial nominees.

“Conservatives responded yesterday by coordinating a three-pronged attack on the Arizona Republican aiming to either flip him or kill any hope he may have of running for president again in 2008.”

Good.

Let the Arizona fellow know that he can’t push the entire Republican Party around and get by with it. He’s as accountable for his egocentric antics as anyone else. Give it to him, loyal Republicans. And never let him forget it. In other words, it’s time to humble McCain and make it stick.

"’He will have no presidential hopes if he pursues this course,’ said Manuel Miranda, a former Frist staffer who now chairs the National Coalition to End Judicial Filibusters. ‘This very well may be the first primary campaign between Bill Frist and John McCain.’"

I for one vote for that!

"’If Senator McCain refuses to stand up for fairness, it will damage his carefully crafted image and whatever aspirations he might have,’ said Marshall Manson with the Center for Individual Freedom, one of the groups in Mr. Miranda's coalition. ‘The people who care about this issue are watching carefully, and they have long memories.’"

Stay tuned.

Joseph Grant Swank, Jr., Pastor, New Hope Church

Graduate of accredited college (BA) and seminary (M Div) with graduate work at Harvard Divinity School.

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[Valin]

Either the GOP embraces the option and gets things done, or it wastes this golden opportunity (control of the Presidency and the Senate).


I believe it's called hardball politics. And it's time the GOP started playing it.
I have no problem with partisanship (in theory), and nothing wrong with "reaching across the aisle", BUT the Democrats need to understand they are the MINORITY party. They need to be smacked up side the head until they really understand this.

[JoeGar]

McCain is also against stopping the flow of illegal immigrants into Arizona.

[yoe]

Methinks senator McCain is showing more and more of something called Little Man’s Disease; he surely isn’t showing any leadership for his party or his state. John McCain, the Arizona Banty Rooster, has lost his crow – what we are hearing is gurgling from a sinking boat.

[Tanniker Smith]

Mr. McCain,

I will support you in supporting the fillibuster IF you can come up with another avenue -- a successful avenue -- around the judicial roadblock. If you have a solution, we would like to hear it. If you do NOT have a solution, do NOT come looking for my vote in 2008.

Only folks with solutions to problems need to apply in 2008.

TS

[jackbenimble]

McCain is also against stopping the flow of illegal immigrants into Arizona.

If you call teaming up with Teddy Kennedy to write a massive amnesty and allow them all to come legally stopping them then I suppose you are right.

Personally I think McCain is awful on the illegal immigration issue.

[Ol' Sparky]

It's time conservatives start targeting McCain as we would target a Democrat. He is one of the prime reasons Republicans have been winning elections, but very little progress has been made toward implementing conservativism in law.

It's mindboggling how prominent talk show hosts like Sean Hannity can continue to give this guy a free ride while he is trying destroy the conservative movement from within the Republican party.

[mwl1]

nuclear option = shortsighted. if we do it, it will come back to haunt us. you want everything shoved down our throats the minute they get 51 senators?

Nonsense. We might someday not have the majority again, that is certainly true; but we never have, and never would, stoop to this level of unconstitutional obstruction that the RATS are employing.

Further, the media would crucify the GOP if it acted this way in the minority.

Get this done, and soon, with the Janice Rogers Brown nomination. I want to see the RATS and media try to deny a qualified black woman a promotion.

[Libertarian4Bush]

Nonsense.

no, just a different opinion.

[JoeGar]

McCain was well-aware that the Arizona border fence was installed backwards, with the barbed wire on the US side. He felt that installing it correctly would offend Mexico.