Poor McCain trying to have a nice dinner with Obama while Rand Paul is causing a commotion in the Senate. How rude! It must have been such an embarrassment for the champagne sipping establishment.
Rand Paul is in a very, very powerful position. If he plays his cards wisely, 2016 is his.
In a fit of anger John McCain got shot down and then captured.
He should learn to control his temper
I just sent this article to McCain and Graham via Twitter. I want them to know how unpopular they are with the base.
Thanks for the posting. I don’t know where Townhall is going with this. Seems like the Townhall editors asked John Hawkins to do a 1000 words on it and so he did. When Limbaugh noted McCain and Lindsey’s reaction to this he suggested that both were hissyfitted because they were upstaged from their collaboration photo op with Obama by Rand Paul.
Why Rand’s rant occured at the time of the Vichy dinner as Rand Paul explained was because of the machinations of Reid and senate rules which allowed for it to happen. Personally I’m glad Rand did because the collaboration dinner was giving credulace to the idea that Obama was and had been seeking bipartisan solutions to the problems he created
and would play well with the LIV’s as Limbaugh calls them as the moderating socialist media ground it out. Because Obama is not interested in bipartisan approaches he wants to destroy opposition to his policies.
This has yet to sink into the heads of the GOPES(GOP Elite Snobs)in the senate.
I disagree with the Senator.
If anyone wages war on Americans on American soil, perhaps via an attack such as Beslan or Mumbai, then it is entirely appropriate and necessary for the President to reply with military force using the laws of war as the ROE.
It makes not one particle of difference whether those attacking are Americans or Guyanese.
Just as it would have been proper and necessary, given the opportunity, for GWB to authorize the shooting down of Flight 93 on 9/11 before it killed more people on the ground. Even if the hijackers as well as the hostages were Americans.
Snipers routinely and properly take out hostage takers. Nobody asks to see proof of citizenship before firing. Nor should they. It's not relevant.
The attorney general should not have answered, "No." He should have answered with a calm and reasoned explanation of the circumstances under which it is appropriate for the President to authorize use of lethal force, even by the military, against American citizens on American soil. And of course the limitations of that authority.
What is disturbing is that he doesn't seem to recognize there are limitations other than his own whim.
Do I trust our present Leader to use this power wisely? Nope. But elections have consequences. I hope those freepers who insisted we should all stay home on Election Day because the alternative was insufficiently conservative are proud.
What is truly weird is the present obsession over drone strikes, with the implication that using the same weapon in the same way to kill the same people would be perfectly fine if the weapon were mounted on a helicopter, a piloted plane or a ground vehicle.
Two words-
Primary
McCain
Each day that goes by, I regret voting for McCain in 2008 more and more. I understand that he lost but that doesn’t negate the fact that I voted for him. I really voted for Sarah Palin becuse before he picked her I was going to sit the election out. But never the less, the fact is that I did vote for McCain. And he has caused me to regret it ever since.
Did Senator McCain call his fellow Republican Senators wackos?
Name one time he has ever called any democrat a wacko.
What a disgrace!
John Hawkins nails it and it's good to see others on all sides of the political spectrum respond to a strong Constitutional stand.
I have to admit, these days I've come to hate the GOPe with a white hot passion for what they have done and allowed to happen.
Watching their governors cave to obamacare one by one is just more proof of what they are and I am not.
McCain is the like the family patriarch of a rich family who has been hoarding the family’s riches from generations of accumulations, keeping them from going to the rightful inheritors, and reserving them for his favorite child (Graham), the spoiled, little brat, who’s never done anything meaningful other than follow daddy’s orders. The rest of the Republican Party represent the rest of the family, expected to toe the line and not make waves if they want to continue to get their piddly monthly subsistence, or they’ll be kicked out of the family.
I’m not leaving before I put a burning paper bag of dog poop on his front porch!!!
Hehehe, I’ll show him!!!
Who’s going to ring the doorbell???
Much ado about nothing... the Progressives have not suitcase-NUKED an America City ...
((( YET! )))... i.e. by foreign or domestic operatives.. or both..
They are not ready YET, but may be soon..
Stampeding Sheep is WHAT THEY DO..
Couldn't have planned it better! Perfect storm.
BTW, nobody cares what McCain and Graham think! They have had a hand in the mess we're in...a heavy hand!
My reply to John Hawkins : John, go fornicate with yourself.
As a result of this whole fiasco, the Obama Administration is now admitting that it doesn’t have the right to use a drone to kill American citizens on American soil.
Knowing this administration as we do, we understand
that is NOT what they said.
Holders reply stated they wouldn’t kill American
non-combatants on American soil. The ones they
declare combatants might well be fair game.