Posted on 11/05/2014 5:43:09 AM PST by RummyChick
One of the president's chief critics could soon lead the Senate's main military committee.
With Republicans gaining the majority in the upper chamber in Tuesday's midterm elections, Sen. John McCain is widely expected to become the next Armed Services Committee chairman in January.
McCain, the Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2008, has decades of experience in foreign policy and defense issues in the Senate, where he was first elected in 1986. He also served in the Navy, and he spent more than five years as a prisoner of war after his plane was shot down during the Vietnam War.
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“For example, during the past year, McCain put a hold on Bob Work’s nomination to be deputy Defense secretary, called the administration “cowardly” for not providing arms to Ukraine’s military, and frequently criticized the strategy to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.”
McCain is one SERIOUSLY DELUSIONAL person...I almost wish there was a way to keep the Dems in charge of this committee. It’s just too important to trust with McCain.
>I have three words for folks who are blissful this AM.
McCain, Graham, and Snow...<
My very first thought this morning. It sure would be nice if we picked up at least one more seat from these yet-to-be decided races. Then, those three could be neutered.
And John McCain is the most tone deaf individual on the planet when it comes to the mess in the Middle East. He is going to be a disaster.
I call your three and raise twenty five (NINETEEN (minus 3) plus NINE) words of hope for Majority Leader Cruz.
I’d be happy if he could control his dentures.
Rule 1: Do not take advice from Democrats. That’s what usually puts them in keystone cop mode.
Well one person out there has mentioned a seat in Louisiana. We may wind up with 54 by the end of the day.
There are a few more RINOs in the Senate though. We won’t know how bad it is until an important issue comes up.
Then we can expect McCain et al to join some “Gang of Whatever” and screw with reaching our goals.
Thanks for the note.
I hope Cruz can pull that off.
If he does, I hope he relegates McCain to untouchable status.
The only upside to Obama winning in 2008 is we avoided becoming a smoldering nuclear crater.
Just what I was thinking.
He is totally incompetent. He sees war in every wind.
The GOPe ( esp. HAtch) are out to get Mike Lee in 2016.
Age may be Lee’s best ally here...
Hatch has looked like death warmed over for the last five years.
What about a generous golden parachute? It would be worth it.
New Senate Order of Battle:
MacCain, the Defender, finds trashcan, climbs in;
Orin, the Hatchling, collects the erasers;
Graham, the Adviser to Obama, dusts the erasers into the trashcan holding McCain;
Snow, the Whinny Woman, takes the trashcan, holding McCain and the easer dust, and empties it into the garbage bin.
Hearing a loud noise coming from inside the garbage bin, Snow calls Hatchling and Graham to help her find out what making the noise.
They all climb in to investigate the racket. They find McCain, but at the same moment hear another loud noise and feel the garbage bin being lifted.
Garbage truck empties garbage bin, compacts, and moves on ...
Insert, “Once upon a time...”
and
“...we all live happily ever after.”
There! Well, one can certain dream can’t they?
Good one. Works for me!
Once upon a time there was a Bad Senate where certain people of dubious pedigree reined.
Then, a new day dawned; there came to be a New and perhaps Better Senate with a new Order of Battle as follows:
MacCain, the Defender, finds trashcan, climbs in;
Orin, the Hatchling, collects the erasers;
Graham, the Adviser to Obama, dusts the erasers into the trashcan holding McCain;
Snow, the Whinny Woman, takes the trashcan, holding McCain and the easer dust, and empties it into the garbage bin.
Hearing a loud noise coming from inside the garbage bin, Snow calls Hatchling and Graham to help her find out what making the noise.
They all climb in to investigate the racket. They find McCain, but at the same moment hear another loud noise and feel the garbage bin being lifted.
Garbage truck empties garbage bin, compacts, and moves on ...
Afterward, we all lived happily ever after ...
McLame is still pimping for hussein.
Now you’re talkin...
Yeh, now we will be going to war agains’t Fiji. Bomb Moscow and Beijing. LOL!
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