Hey Arizona, wake the heck up. John can be any thing his changable little mind wants to be for five and one half years of his six year term and you will re elect him if he panders to you for the six months before the election. I'm not making this up he has pulled that same number over and over.
There are two things John likes, wars and lots of attention. No problem has ever arisen that John didn't want to solve with military power. If he can get on television and get his name in the papers sure he'll join the democrats. I'm not making that up either, You've seen him do it. John has even taught his little sofa buddy Lindsay to play it that way too. Look at Graham, he's up for re election and he's a completely different person. Rest assured that two weeks after you reelect John McCain and Lindsay Graham they will revert to their normal patterns of behavior and remain there for five and one half years.
Then six months before the election they will put on their makeup and entertain you and get your vote. You see they are much smarter than you. They fool you with the same trick time and time again. I get a laugh out of it because each time you are surprised like a small child when grandpa pulls a quarter out of his ear.
Arizona Republicans are seeking to pass a resolution censuring U.S. Sen. John McCain for a voting record they say is aligned with liberal Democrats. They introduced the resolution at the Arizona Republican Party’s state meeting Saturday Jan. 25, 2014 and it passed big time.
The Arizona Republican Party formally censured Sen. John McCain on Saturday, citing a voting record they say is too liberal.
The resolution to censure McCain was approved by a voice-vote during a meeting of state committee members in Tempe, state party spokesman Tim Sifert said. It needed signatures from at least 20 percent of state committee members to reach the floor for debate and it got triple that.
McCain spokesman declined to comment on the censure. But former three-term Sen. Jon Kyl called the members who censured McCain “wacky, dumb little republicans.”
“I’ve gone to dozens of these meetings Kyl said and every now and then some really strange people pass a wacky resolution. “But most people realize it does not represent the broad majority of the sensible Republicans who vote regularly.”
Kyl also said McCain’s voting record was “generally conservative the majority of the time.”
McCain isn’t up for re-election until 2016, when he will turn 80. McCain's goal for the rest of his time on earth are to start a couple more wars and to die on the senate floor. He announced in October that he was considering running for a sixth term so look for McCain to start walking tall and talking big about six months before the 2016 election. McCain correctly figures that your memory only extends back three months and twelve days.
According to the resolution, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee has campaigned as a conservative but has lent his support to issues “associated with liberal Democrats,” such as immigration reform and funding the federal health care law and had even said some nice things in support of Obama. When its a free bar McCain has been known to say lots of things.
Several Republican county committees in Arizona have recently censured McCain.
Timothy Schwartz, the Legislative District 30 Republican chairman who helped write the resolution, said the censure showed that McCain was losing support from his own party. It is feared that democrats will vote for McCain and keep him in office due to his helping hand that he extends to democratic efforts. There are some southern senators who are democratic but vote less with the party than McCain does.
My guess is that if McCain wants to run again he'll win and you will vote for him and then later complain about his loyalty. Could be its something in the air in Arizona?
“We would gladly consider embracing Sen. McCain if he says he will stand behind us and represented us,” Schwartz said. Closer to next election McCain will say those things and Schwartz will pose with and get his picture taken with John, both men smiling.
Fred DuVal, a Democrat who plans to run for Arizona governor, called the censure an “outrageous response to the good work Sen. McCain did crafting a reasonable solution to fix our broken immigration system.” I am so glad the democrat running for Governor came to John's defense. It shows the democrats appreciate all the work McCain has helped them with. To do less would be rude.
McCain has been dogged by conservatives objecting to his views on immigration and campaign finance, among other issues, since he first ran for Congress in 1982. But since 1982 John has used the six months prior to election day to pander to republicans and get their votes. Republican activists were also turned off by his moderate stances in the 2000 presidential race but they got over that and re elected him to his senate post. John put on a tremendous "Build the Dang Fence" campaign and waltzed into another term easily.
McCain was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982 and won his Senate seat in 1986. Come on guys, McCain gave you Sara Palin. How much more do you expect one little old war hawk to do for the folks in Arizona? Run for President again?
What's Mitt Up To These Days
What takes up Mitt's time now that the people have freed up his future?
“It’s always frustrating to get a building permit on the ocean,” Ann Romney said recently on a San Diego TV station, in a classic example of Ann Romneyisms that are true but probably wouldn’t attract much sympathy among voters were her husband still in politics.
Indeed, if Mitt Romney thought moving across the country would save him from the kinds of impassioned waterfront landowner disputes over public beach access you see all the time on Massachusetts waterfronts well, he was wrong.
In our Friday edition of “What’s Mitt Romney up to now that he doesn’t care what you think,” the Los Angeles Times reports that the California Coastal Commission must decide whether he can build that 11,000-square-foot mansion on his property in La Jolla California (you’ll remember it as the one with plans for a car elevator.) Though he already received approval from the San Diego Planning Commission, the Coastal Commission got involved because Romney attracted the ire of one local citizen “who is known in La Jolla for his commitment to preserving beach access,” as the Times diplomatically phrases it. He’s a man who has since moved away from Romney’s neighborhood but is still filing a complaint to say that the property was surveyed incorrectly in a way that allows for a bigger structure than should otherwise be there.
This story really does evoke the politics of the small, wealthier coastal towns of Massachusetts. One Romney supporter tells the L.A. Times that the neighbors who are complaining about his house “didn’t vote for Gov. Romney and in fact represent the radical left wing,” and hey, we, too, have lots of people who didn’t vote for Gov. Romney. He must feel right at home over there.
Update: An L.A. Times columnist reports that the Romneys have received the Commission’s approval. Bring on the car elevator!
What's Mitt Romney doing now that he's lost the presidential election?
Getting weird.
TMZ reports that Romney, who is 65, took his wife Ann on a romantic movie date to see the Twilight Saga's final chapter, Breaking Dawn: Part 2, in California this weekend, even though there were other movies playing in California, not to mention on FX and Netflix.
After the movie, the Mitt and Ann moved on to a pizza place across the street, where Mitt Romney probably ordered "a circle of your most classic pie, please" because he's so normal and chill now.
TMZ reports that the Romneys appeared to be traveling without body guards or Secret Service, which makes sense because, according to Slate, those guys hang around for a week or so after a non-incumbent loses an election, then step out one day "just on a coffee run, Mitt" and never, ever come back.
House GOPers’ New Plan to Take Down Obama: Sue Him
Texas attorney general Greg Abbott likes to joke that his job is simple: "I go into the office, I sue Barack Obama, and then I go home." But it’s not just Republicans attorneys general who are taking the president to court these days. Forget impeachment—increasingly, House Republicans are using personal lawsuits as a way to rein in what they view as unchecked presidential power on everything from the Affordable Care Act to immigration reform to nuclear weapons.
"It appears right now that we may have to do it, that I may have to do it, or somebody may have to do it, as an individual, outside of Congress, to litigate on one of these issues," Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) told a local radio station last week. Coffman, who got in trouble last May when he suggested that Obama was foreign born and not eligible for office, didn't elaborate on which executive overreach set him off, although he discussed the nuclear agreement with Iran and the 2012 decision on welfare as possible violations. By Monday, his office had walked back Coffman's litigation threat, but the congressman is in good company.
In November, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), a sponsor of 2004's Lawsuit Reduction Act, which was designed to curb the number of frivolous lawsuits, signaled that a large faction of House Republicans would be open to filing a lawsuit to block Obama’s perceived overreach on everything from Obamacare to immigration. "There's no question we should do that...yes…and that’s something that we talked about a lot," he told The Hill.
This wasn't Franks’ first legal threat: in 2009, he suggested at a town hall meeting that he'd be open to filing a lawsuit to force President Obama, who had already released a birth certificate, to release another type of birth certificate. (It was an empty threat, it turned out.) Note Franks is another nutjob from Arizona.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has also floated the idea of challenging Obama in court, specifically over the president's decision to allow insurance companies to continue offering 2013 health care plans for another year, despite the requirements of the ACA. And in September, Rep. Tom Marino (R-Penn.) said he was considering filing a lawsuit—or even pressing criminal charges—against the administration for postponement of several Affordable Care Provisions. Marino spokeswoman Sarah Wolf said the congressman hasn't taken any further steps toward a lawsuit, but pointed Mother Jones to a House Judiciary Committee hearing last week in which witnesses said President Obama's actions "could potentially rise to the level of an impeachable offence. We expect more to come as a result of this hearing in the near future."
Incensed by the administration’s decision to allow certain undocumented students to receive legal Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) promised in 2012 "to bring a suit and seek a court order to stop implementation of this policy." (He hasn't, but we suppose there's still time.) That August, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) sued the White House for more information on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives' Fast and Furious scandal.
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) told a town hall meeting in his district in August that he, too, was considering his personal legal options against the administration. (Amash hasn’t sued anyone yet.)
In 2011, a bipartisan group of 10 members of Congress filed suit over the administration’s decision to intervene in the Libyan civil war. (That suit was thrown out.)
Although some of the upper chamber's most conservative members, including Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), have sought to tone down legal threats, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said in September he was "laying the groundwork" for a lawsuit to challenge the Office of Personnel Management's decision to allow congressional staffers to receive employer contributions. Johnson hasn't filed any paperwork yet.
And In June, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced his intention to file a class-action lawsuit against the Obama administration in response to Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs. To date, no such lawsuit has materialized, but Paul didn't come away empty—the announcement doubled as a fundraising pitch. How dumb are republicans that they donate money to candidates who talk this utter foolishness?
For the most part, all that talk about suing the president has been just that—talk. But at least one congressional lawsuit against the president is going forward, and it could have a far-reaching impact.
In 2012, Senate Republicans joined a lawsuit against President Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, arguing that Obama had acted outside of his authority by circumventing the Senate when the chamber was still technically in session. That case is going to the Supreme Court. And if the hypothetical legal options don't work out, there's always impeachment. Dream on Mitch and Eric and John, Dream On.
Dear Red States:
We're ticked off at your Neanderthal attitudes and politics and we've decided we're leaving.
We in New York intend to form our own country and we're taking the other Blue States with us.
In case you aren't aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and the rest of the Northeast.
We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation and especially to the people of the new country of The Enlightened States of America (E.S.A).
To sum up briefly:
You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.
We get stem cell research and the best beaches.
We get Andrew Cuomo and Elizabeth Warren. You get Bobby Jindal and Todd Akin.
We get the Statue of Liberty. You get OpryLand.
We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ol' Miss.
We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs.
You get Alabama.
We get two-thirds of the tax revenue. You get to make the red states pay their fair share.
Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.
With the Blue States in hand we will have firm control of 80% of the country's fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92% of the nation's fresh fruit, 95% of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners) 90% of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the US low sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.
With the Red States you will have to cope with 88% of all obese Americans and their projected health care costs, 92% of all US mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99% of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.
We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.
38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory, 53% that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.
We're taking the good weed too. You can have that crap they grow in Mexico.
Sincerely,
Citizen of the Enlightened States of America
Amherst County Virginia Democratic News
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