“I’m freer than colleagues who will face the voters again. I can speak my mind without fearing the consequences much. And I can vote my conscience without worry.”
So, John… How about that Net Neutrality vote coming up?
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This is my last term.
No shit?
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Terribly OT, but this is just weird.
Trump doc says Trump bodyguard, lawyer ‘raided’ his office, took medical files
Dr. Harold Bornstein said he felt “raped” after White House aide Keith Schiller and lawyer Alan Garten showed up unannounced and took Trump’s files.
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You mean like the Nazis argued at Nuremberg?
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I take exception to only a few details here…
So far, so good…
This is where you are mistaken (IMHO).
I would say it was decades of GOP overt and dig whistle racism that led to the xenophobic atmosphere where Trumps Candidacy and nomination were possible.
Though I concede it proved to the GOP that they can still exploit racism in their base and they won’t have a problem with open racism.
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Thank you. A glioblastoma is a terrible way to pass from this earth. I saw it take out a close friend in about seven months, and he received the best of care. Nicely worded view.
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That’s a prerequisite for being in the GOP these days
Right…
because bombing targets provided to him with some level of assurance that he was either bombing enemies or bombing to assist fellow Americans(with little way of knowing differently) is the same as taking emaciated civilians in a death camp and working and or gassing them to death.
Well done, you told me… /s
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He will check Cindy’s Stock Holdings and get back to you…
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I think we all knew that is what a lot of these politicians do on both sides
“I’m freer than colleagues who will face the voters again. I can speak my mind without fearing the consequences much. And I can vote my conscience without worry.”
It is a sad statement that McCain thinks admitting this is a good thing.
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Not so sure how his legacy will be white-washed on his passing, but there are more than a few darker moments in his career that I’m sure will be glossed over during the eulogies.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
I’m afraid the opposite will be true with McCain.
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Republicans like McCain need to read—and understand—this op-ed.
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McCain can speak truth no matter if he is in the Senate or at home after a resignation. If he does not resign this month in order to let AZ democratically elect a new Senator, then he is putting party before country (again).
My dark opinion is that (1) his family gets a financial and PR benefit from his dying in office and (2) he wants Cindy to be appointed in his place. Ego over all.
ETA: phone spelling
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well, he did trash the obamacare vote. then, again, there is the palin thingy.
Dying doesn’t give you any excuse whatsoever for not having put your fellow Human Beings before yourself as you live your life, and even while you’re dying. And NO I don’t mean solely based on Military service.
Mc Cain’s book reads like a hot mess of largely self-serving HOGWASH about how he wishes things could be in his version of American Government. You don’t get to be a Senator and remain a Senator unless you become a part of the “system” in which you believe. John Mc Cain now rails against a Beast which he helped to create and perpetuate over his entire political career.
Instead of having a long, maudlin “pity party” filled with soaking wet crying towels for the “long-suffering” “Public Servant” fighting to the end of some sort of “noble” life, ask yourself things like this:
-How many times over his “public service” career did John McCain’s votes in the Senate do things like:
-Take Food from Hungry people?
-Take away Health Care and other benefits that as a Senator, he could afford for himself, but would not give to people more in need than himself?
He was and is a Republican. And in case you missed it over the last nearly 40 YEARS or so, His “Brand” has been taking from the “Have-not’s” to give more to the “Have’s.” Because Republicans preach a “zero-sum game” remember?
The only way for them to get more is to be sure that someone with less has to lose something.
That is what they are going to try to do with their next budget. Balance it on the backs of the poor because their Frickin’ “tax cuts” have created massive deficits that they are going to use as weapons against the poor… and the social safety net.
If you can prove to me in all Honesty that if John Mc Cain were not dying, and he was on the Senate Floor again that he would not vote for a budget like the one we know is coming, I’ll take back every word I’ve written here.
I’m sorry, but I just don’t believe in the “Road to Damascus” “conversion” of this particular “Saint John.”
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Based on AZ gop’s frenzied attempt to change the election laws,my guess is that McCain will be gone before the 30th.
Some Maverick
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Given the choice, I guess I’d probably prefer being gassed to being burned alive with flaming jellied gasoline, like Americans did to so many human beings in Vietnam.
There were many people who refused to fight in Vietnam because they recognized it for what it was: an unjust racist war. They had the courage to refuse to follow orders, and went to jail for it. Excuses such as “bombing enemies or bombing to assist fellow Americans” don’t cut it. McCain knew what he was doing.
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Precisely. The morality of his voting record depends on the reasonableness of his perception that those votes he recognizes as regrettable would have lead to his replacement by somebody who would have voted worse.