Posted on 12/23/2007 10:57:43 PM PST by Norman Bates
“Found NOT GUILTY of any wrongdoing”
LOL, M.O., that’s incidental! Merry Christmas!
“How about McCains involvement with the Savings and Loan scandal??”
Not guilty.
Consider the polling in post 35 as another point to consider.
Didn’t he have a problem with out of control spending in his campaign? Can’t manage his own money issues, why do I think he could manage more?
Campaigns are normally divided between the financial arm and the actual campaign arm. Nevertheless, he fixed the problem. That ought to count for something. Merry Christmas!
Second, "going nuclear" works both ways. A rat President would be able to appoint courts-full of Stephen Breyers and Ruth Bader-Ginsbergs on a bare majority vote and there would be nothing the Republicans could do about it. (Of course, the rats could still "go nuclear" on their own watch, but the chances of that are at least a little diminished. Once again it would be the rats breaking new ground in their efforts to take America down the sewer.)
The "Gang of Fourteen" scheme could not have worked out better.
McCain-Feingold was probably initialted w/ good intentions but turned out to have unforseen negatives
I totally disagree with your effort to dismiss McCain's responsibility for this abominable piece of crap. It's a killer, and it makes McCain look completely untrustworthy. Any legislator who promotes legislation based on the premise that politicians are crooks who are routinely bought and sold tells me more about the sponsoring legislator than anything else. It is the stone opposite of Reagan's philosophy which was, "People donate to my campaign because they like my positions, not because they are trying to influence my positions."
Thank you. I prefer to examine records than to listen to campaign slogans and soundbites. It’s a waste of the internet’s potential to regurgitate the pablum of candidate ads and MSM punditry.
McCain is a fake conservative and I will never vote for him, WELCOME back to PENNSYLVANIA AVE Hillry and Bill!!!!
Not hardly.
The dems agreed because they know the "nuclear option" would break them and push though Bush nominees who were vanquishing for years without the normal and decades old traditions of an up or down vote.
McCain helped backstab the GOP and Bush.
Nice try BTW, but pure Bullsh*t
Try reading the posts and then get a clue.
Here they are:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943728/posts?page=46#46
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943728/posts?page=20#20
Point taken.
I have always believed that with his version of CFR, McCain was selfishly trying to atone for his 'Keating Five' involvement - - assuage his guilty conscience or something... Anyway, what McCain succeeded in enacting was a frontal assault on the Constitution (regardless of a reckless 5 - 4 Supreme Court ruling) and the law is little more than an "incumbent protection" law.
The proper CFR would have been a carefully crafted transparency law.
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