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John McCain Poised to Control Senate's Defense Policy
national journal ^ | 11/5 | carney

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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To: RummyChick

“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.


21 posted on 11/05/2014 6:13:15 AM PST by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

22 posted on 11/05/2014 6:13:53 AM PST by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: DoughtyOne

>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.


23 posted on 11/05/2014 6:15:01 AM PST by Darnright (To reach something good, it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.)
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To: DoughtyOne
I have three words for folks who are blissful this AM. McCain, Graham, and Snow...

I call your three and raise twenty five (NINETEEN (minus 3) plus NINE) words of hope for Majority Leader Cruz.

24 posted on 11/05/2014 6:16:47 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: RummyChick

I’d be happy if he could control his dentures.


25 posted on 11/05/2014 6:17:36 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: RummyChick

Rule 1: Do not take advice from Democrats. That’s what usually puts them in keystone cop mode.


26 posted on 11/05/2014 6:22:01 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Darnright

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.


27 posted on 11/05/2014 6:23:06 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

I hope Cruz can pull that off.

If he does, I hope he relegates McCain to untouchable status.


28 posted on 11/05/2014 6:24:00 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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To: RummyChick
This guy is so unbalanced, I don't want him near any bombs, guns, missiles or bullets.

The only upside to Obama winning in 2008 is we avoided becoming a smoldering nuclear crater.

29 posted on 11/05/2014 6:24:59 AM PST by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. We have no 'news media', only a Soviet Pravda.)
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To: 11th_VA

Just what I was thinking.


30 posted on 11/05/2014 6:26:28 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: RummyChick

He is totally incompetent. He sees war in every wind.


31 posted on 11/05/2014 6:33:29 AM PST by Ramonne
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To: DoughtyOne

The GOPe ( esp. HAtch) are out to get Mike Lee in 2016.


32 posted on 11/05/2014 6:33:52 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Age may be Lee’s best ally here...

Hatch has looked like death warmed over for the last five years.


33 posted on 11/05/2014 6:41:52 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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To: RummyChick
Can't somebody just give him a gold watch and convince him that it's way past time to retire?

What about a generous golden parachute? It would be worth it.

34 posted on 11/05/2014 6:43:11 AM PST by Savage Beast (Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
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To: DoughtyOne

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 ...


35 posted on 11/05/2014 6:56:03 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

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!


36 posted on 11/05/2014 6:57:51 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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To: DoughtyOne

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 ...


37 posted on 11/05/2014 7:06:29 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: RummyChick

McLame is still pimping for hussein.


38 posted on 11/05/2014 7:16:43 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: PIF

Now you’re talkin...


39 posted on 11/05/2014 7:23:07 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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To: RummyChick

Yeh, now we will be going to war agains’t Fiji. Bomb Moscow and Beijing. LOL!


40 posted on 11/05/2014 7:56:17 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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