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John McCain follies
Wash Post ^ | 5/15/10 | Ezra Klein

Posted on 05/16/2010 11:47:16 AM PDT by pissant

I was readying to write about an immigration article I found interesting and then a TARP article I found depressing, but then I realized that both articles were actually about John McCain and I could cover them in one post.

The first is by Joanna Lydgate, and it examines the border-security bill McCain is pushing now that he's decided to stop supporting the comprehensive approach to immigration reform that he once understood to be necessary. It includes an expansion of Project Streamline, a policy aimed at criminally prosecuting and imprisoning every illegal immigrant picked up by authorities. Lydgate, who's studied Operation Streamline, has found the program to be a mess: It forces the legal system to spend its time on nonviolent offenders and erodes its capacity to focus on violent offenses.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; arizona; itsstillamnesty; jdhayworth; mccain; mcliar
The MSM misses the REAL (liberal) McCain. The fake one is not fooling them, or anybody else, though.
1 posted on 05/16/2010 11:47:16 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Either Arizona is overloaded with RINOS or Juan is fooling someone. I’m still pulling for J.D. Hayworth to kick his ass, however. If he is re-elected there is only one thing I know for sure: He will screw us again.


2 posted on 05/16/2010 11:52:40 AM PDT by Nucluside (ready)
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To: Nucluside; All

Clever and Accurate! Great tune!

Flush the John! McCain’s Got to Go!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJobkdeho88


3 posted on 05/16/2010 11:56:32 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: pissant

GO JD!!


4 posted on 05/16/2010 12:20:24 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Obamunism: You have two cows. The regime redistributes them and shoots you dead)
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To: Nucluside

Amen to that!


5 posted on 05/16/2010 12:47:23 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: pissant

Juan will be right back in there pitching amnesty as soon as he’s been re-elected. As if THAT should shock anyone.


6 posted on 05/16/2010 12:57:38 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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WHERE IS THE MEDIA OR JD ASKING WHAT IS MCCAIN’S CURRENT STANCE ON AMNESTY AND MAKE HIM CLARIFY HIS “ITS NOT AMNESTY” BS? HOLD HIS FEET TO THE FIRE AND MAKE HIM COMMIT NOW!


7 posted on 05/16/2010 12:59:30 PM PDT by rolling_stone (no more bailouts, the taxpayers are out of money!)
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To: Nucluside; Arthur Wildfire! March
Either Arizona is overloaded with RINOS or Juan is fooling someone. I’m still pulling for J.D. Hayworth to kick his ass, however. If he is re-elected there is only one thing I know for sure: He will screw us again.

The problem is that our primaries (except Libertarians, who sued to stop it) are open. Anyone can vote in them, and McCain may draw enough aisle crossers to defeat JD. The state party was working a lawsuit to change the policy in time for the primary August 24, but they've put that on hold, no doubt due to back room sleaze and payoffs from the master, Juan "Lettuce" McShame.

8 posted on 05/16/2010 1:29:45 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

Right. Hayworth might win, but if he doesn’t, it would very likely be due to crossover mischief, just like the 08 prez primary.


9 posted on 05/16/2010 1:56:10 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (We knew deep down it was this bad. Devour ugly truths with glee -- truth is our weapon.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Exactly. And you’ll notice how the aisle-crossing ankle-grabbing Constitution-shredding mendacious asshat McShame is always the “Republican” beneficiary of it.


10 posted on 05/16/2010 1:59:28 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

Yeah, but Hayworth has the issues on his side. AZ is 70% in agreement. If he can expose McStain as Johnny-come-lately, he has an excellent chance.


11 posted on 05/16/2010 2:36:58 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (We knew deep down it was this bad. Devour ugly truths with glee -- truth is our weapon.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
AZ is 70% in agreement. If he can expose McStain as Johnny-come-lately, he has an excellent chance.

And that's Arizona as a whole. Registered Republicans are probably 95-5 on that issue. And even with the open primary, voters should be more Republican than the state at large. Some of those libs want to vote in their own primary. You've given me a glimmer of hope, Art. Thanks.

12 posted on 05/16/2010 2:40:35 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

Yeah, glimmer. I have no clue what the primary for rats is like right now.


13 posted on 05/18/2010 3:16:51 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (We knew deep down it was this bad. Devour ugly truths with glee -- truth is our weapon.)
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