Posted on 04/07/2013 1:05:12 PM PDT by opentalk
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday expressed opposition to possible GOP efforts to filibuster a Senate gun-control measure, saying he did not “understand” the move to block debate.
“I don’t understand it,” said McCain on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.”
“What are we afraid of? Why would we not want… if this issue is as important as all of us think it is, why not take it to one of the world’s greatest deliberative bodies
… A number of GOP lawmakers, including Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Mike Lee (Utah), Marco Rubio (Fla.), and Ted Cruz (Texas) wrote to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) vowing that they would “oppose the motion to proceed to any legislation that will serve as a vehicle for any additional gun restrictions.”
Reid is planning to bring to the Senate floor this month legislation that would expand background checks, toughen penalties on straw purchasers of firearms and provide funding for school safety.
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I’ve lost all respect to McCain.
I don’t care if he is a Vietnam Vet.
If he wants to throw American gun owners under the bus, then I have no use for him.
Just another shell of a politician that doesn’t care about looking after the American people or doing his job.
McCain is such a putz. How could the voters of AZ saddled America with this moron? It is impossible to pickup a turd by the clean end.
He hates being called “moss back”
Agreed!
Senile, or liberal BOTH
We were totally screwed no matter what in ‘08, weren’t we?
How did the North Vietnamese put up with him for so long?
It’s amazing that John McCain lived for so many years in the US, but never once got around to reading the US constitution, all or in part. Perhaps he has such severe dyslexia that his megalomania has free reign over what shards exist of his reason or common sense.
Were it not for his beer heiress wife, he would have long ago been put in a nursing home as too deficient to function.
Ask that of Harry Reid & Nevada. Of course the answer is 13 pieces of silver.
Time for Useless McVain to resign.
Ya’ll be sure to leave him a message on his Facebook page.
I like the Mr. Magoo label. Fits the old turd well.
I don’t understand why McCain is still in the GOP.
His only concern is to maximize the attention paid to HIM! Sound and fury, signifying nothing..
Yeah I’m a troll, better call in the zot brigade to get rid of me you pathetic coward.
This prostitute sells out pretty cheaply. At least Judas got 30 pieces of silver — and then he had the good grace to hang himself. Harry Reid or John McCain have none.
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