John McCain to seek higher-profile role [so much betrayal, so little time] [BARF!]

CNN - Political Ticker ^ | 2009-01-19

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WASHINGTON (CNN) – Bump into John McCain in a Capitol hallway these days, and you’re lucky if you get anything beyond a polite hello. Ask him a question on any policy or political issue, and he will almost always decline comment, and keep moving.

But the former Republican presidential nominee is not planning to keep a low profile for long.

CNN has learned that McCain may get seats on an unusually high number of key Senate committees, so that he can engage on a wide range of high-profile issues before Congress, and his formal rival in the White House.

“He wants to be a player,” McCain’s good friend, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, told CNN in a phone conversation.

“He feels an obligation to the people of Arizona and the rest of the country to use his time in the Senate to be productive.”

For example, three sources close to McCain say he is hoping to secure a seat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in order to work with its Democratic chairman, Ted Kennedy, on health care reform.

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Amnesty, climate change, Socialist health care barf alert!

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[wac3rd]

John McCain and Lindsay Graham are joint third-bases coaches waving millions of illegals across the border.

Maggots.

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“He wants to be a player,” McCain’s good friend, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, told CNN in a phone conversation.

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[wastedyears]

Just go home, John.

[GeronL]

hey why not?

[GeronL]

fade to the strawberries

[ASOC]

Why does the term “Judas GOat” keeep coming to mind?

[Names Ash Housewares]

The republican party will not be truly reformed until the king of RINOs no longer holds office. We all need to support conservatives that will challenge his seat and oust him.

[libh8er]

We already lost the election when McCain won the primary.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

[machogirl]

john, do all of us a big favor in arizona, decline to run again, and let a republican take the seat.

[Kakaze]

I heard, Wolf Blitzer say today that "days before the election, John Mccain, told me he would help Obama, get his agenda done"

So damn s.o.b. knew the election was a done deal and my vote consequentially, was a waste.

This has to stop now or this country will balkanize.

[Will88]

However the GOP source insists “the more things McCain wants to be involved in, the better for us.”

I'm hoping and praying it was Lindsey Graham who said that. If we've got other 'Republicans' thinking like that, then we are really in for a rough time.

Just like Juan, after losing the election, to start maneuvering so he can grab all the attention possible now that he's back in the Senate. Same immature, show-off jet jockey he admitted to being before his POW experience. He was just totally mistaken when his said that experience cured of his habit of doing things to draw attention to himself.

He's not maverick and he has no basic principles. He's just a show-off drawing attention to himself, just as he tried to do during that ridiculous stunt of running back to DC and threatening to cancel the first debate when the financial crisis broke. That might have cost him the election.

[Mr. Mojo]

“He feels an obligation to the people of Arizona and the rest of the country to use his time in the Senate to be productive.”

We'd all be better off if (most) elected officials were as unproductive as possible.

[blackbart.223]

"We'd all be better off if (most) elected officials were as unproductive as possible."

Amen to that.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I know hindsight is 20/20, and unfortunately I was one of the fools caught up in McCain-Palin fever. But I do wish Palin would have politely declined to be McNut's running mate. McCain would have chosen Lieberman or Ridge and got his clock cleaned, and the RINOs would have nobody to blame but themselves.

John McCain, arguably, has got to be the most compromising Republican since Warren Rudman.

[mrsmel]

Things like this are why I have written off the Republican party. They haven’t learned, they never will learn. They just lost Congress and the White House with these exact tactics and agenda, and they’re still going on with them. I don’t think the ones who held on to their seats even much care that they’re in the minority and will have little chance of holding back the socialist deluge, as long as they get their perks and privileges. Heck, I don’t expect to see much, if any, opposition to Zero and the ‘rats from them. Conservatives are on their own.

[PistolPaknMama]

“He wants to be a player,” McCain’s good friend, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, told CNN in a phone conversation.

And exactly what does Pansy Graham (RINO-SC) have to do with this any longer? The campaign is over. Pansy needs to go back to doing what he's paid to do, hoodwinking the people back home.

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Grahamnesty ping!