Posted on 03/05/2010 11:10:20 AM PST by COBOL2Java
Back to Sedona John....PLEASE!
JD--John sat there at the HC summit and let Obama address everybody by their first name, and taunted McCain in a way that even offended those who heartily detest JM. He just sat and took it.
I enjoy hearing JM whine--Hayworth, make him do it again.
Why does JD hate Smurfs so much?
(/sarc)
“Fictional”? John! Have you watched Meghan on “The View” yet? Alien. Definitely alien.
Having an Instant Reaction Team? Great. Having an Instant Reaction Team with the I.Q. of lettuce? Ungreat.
This is true, not humor? mccain, you’re an idiot.
For the McCAin camp to even bring up ‘native Americans’ is just ironic. McCain operates on huge tribal donations, gambles at their casinos, and makes policy as head of senate Indian affairs. NO ONE has used the Indians like McCain has!
Indians, Lobbyists and Arizona Politics...OH MY!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2440173/posts
J.D. is clean on this, but McCain is dirty as dirty can be.
Buried in McCain/Feingold was a special exemption for Indian tribes, who just happen to line McCain’s pockets.
Mc/Feingold was never about campaign finance reform. It was about getting what McCain thought he needed.
The McCain-Feingold Indian Giving Loophole
by Michelle Malkin (April 11, 2001)
[snip] deep-pocketed special interest group remains curiously silent amid the furor over campaign finance “reform”: Indian tribes. Why?
You might think tribal leaders would be swarming Capitol Hill, joining other business groups and trade associations that are rightly worried about the McCain-Feingold bill’s deleterious effect on their ability to participate in the political process. Under McCain-Feingold, so-called “soft money” donations (which are currently unregulated and unlimited) would be banned. That would presumably be a big blow to Indian tribes, particularly those who run casinos, whose soft-money giving has exploded in the last few years.
Final tallies are not in yet, but analysts say the top individual recipient of Indian gaming money during election 2000 was none other than anti-soft money crusader Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who sits on the Senate Committee of Indian Affairs.
Shouldn’t this be a moot point anyway since, if Indian tribes donated, it should be “foreign money” under the tribes’ “soveriegn immunity” self-governing reservation system?
Okay; I’ll climb back up the rabbit hole to the real world now.
I’ll let you read McCAin’s words to explain that.
McCain’s Law Preserved Loophole for Tribal Contributions
Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.), chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, says the campaign finance reform law he sponsored in 2002 intentionally left open a loophole that allows Indian tribes to make campaign contributions to an unlimited number of candidates for federal office.
Before McCain’s law passed, most Americans were allowed to give an aggregate of only $25,000 to party committees and candidates for federal office in any two-year election cycle. Indian tribes were not subject to that cap. McCain’s law lifted the aggregate-contribution cap to $95,000 for ordinary American contributors, but declined to impose any cap at all on Indian tribes.
When I asked McCain last week why this was the case, he said, “Because tribes are ‘sovereign entities.’ They are treated on a government-to-government relationship, and we’re looking at that whole issue.”
I asked, “But it was an intentional thing?” McCain replied, “Oh yeah. … Because they are ‘sovereign nations’ unquote. We sign treaties with them.”
When I pointed out that the U.S. does not allow contributions from foreign governments, McCain said, “No, we don’t. But they’re American citizens. So, it’s a unique kind of a status.”
Evidently, Mr. McCain also believes he deserves ‘a unique kind of status’. And why not be the ‘anti-earmark’ champion when there is a ready source of campaign income flowing from lobbyists controlling Indian money?
Very ‘Maverick’ of you, Senator McCain.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=11961
What an idiot.
Like every OTHER lib, Juan hates it when he’s exposed.
Lord McCain is an idiot.
McCain must have skipped his meds.
lol....it was worth saying twice
LMAO!!
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