Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) officially decided he will vote no on the Graham-Cassidy bill, which is the latest attempt the GOP has taken to repeal and replace Obamacare. From CNN:
“I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal,” the Arizona Republican said in a statement. “I believe we could do...
John McCain gets lots of criticism from both sides and some of it is fair. Calling him a war criminal however, is out of bounds.
Red Alert Politics reports:
Professor ‘annoyed’ by support for ‘war criminal’ John McCain
A San Diego State University professor is facing a lot of criticism after...
Overnight the Senate failed to pass a so-called “skinny” repeal of Obamacare, when three Republican Senators (Collins, Murkowski and McCain) voted against the measure.
Whether the “skinny” repeal was an actual repeal was doubtful. As unveiled late last night, it removed the mandate, the medical device tax, and defunded Planned Parenthood, but...
The entire country needs a lesson in parliamentary procedure.
As I blogged yesterday, Senate Republicans, with the assist of Vice President Pence finally cobbled together enough votes to pass a motion to proceed (MTP), which simply allowed for debate on proposed Republican health care reform.
To watch Democrats, progressives, and everyone under the...
The Senate GOP’s latest effort to fix Obamacare failed to garner support from the conservative wing of the party.
The fractured caucus led Sen. Sasse (R-NE) to call for the complete repeal of Obamacare followed by a completely separate replacement. Sasse suggested leaving Obamacare intact as is for one year to protect...
President Trump has scored significant successes undoing the toxic eco-activist legacy of his predecessor, including the executive orders moving the signing of Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines forward.
However, it seems that he cannot rely on certain establishment Republicans to continue his efforts. Before reading this piece further, pause for a moment...
Payback is a . . . Rand Paul. After John McCain, speaking on the Senate floor yesterday, accused Paul of “working for Vladimir Putin,” Paul had a crushing comeback on today’s Morning Joe.
Said Paul of McCain, “he makes a really, really strong case for term limits. I think maybe he’s past...
What in the actual…
Yes, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) claimed on the Senate floor that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) now works for Russian President Vladimir Putin because Paul voted against allowing Montenegro into NATO:
McCain tried to call up the treaty and warned that anyone blocking it would be helping Russia maintain its influence...
U.S. senators have traveled to NATO nations to perform their typical lip service, promising America stands behind the organization and the nations involved. NATO nations have grown concerned over America’s role since Donald Trump won the election in November:
“I am convinced and certain that our relations, and the American relationship with...
As DNC chair Donna Brazile contradicts Obama on Russian hacking and John McCain asserts that Obama has no idea what to do about the serious problem of Russian hacking that could “undermine our democracy,” Henry Kissinger offers some much-needed perspective.
ABC News reports on Brazile undercutting Obama’s public statements:
Democratic National Committee Chair...
I know, I know.
You just were being patriotic. You just were honoring the fallen and the surviving heroes of the World Trade Center.
You had good intentions. You didn’t profit from it.
Country first!
That’s what Sarah Palin or whoever runs her Facebook page likely was thinking when, on September 11, 2013, the following image...
While I had hoped Dr. Kelli Ward would be the Republican candidate for Arizona’s U.S. Senate seat, it looks like Senator John McCain is immune from “anti-incumbent fever” and handily won Tuesday’s primary battle.
U.S. Sen. John McCain beat back a primary challenge Tuesday from a Republican tea party activist to win...
Florida and Arizona held their down-ballot primary elections yesterday.
Lots of races, but here are the highlights:
Both Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Governor Mike Pence and Trump advisor Newt Gingrich broke ranks with Trump and announced they’d be endorsing Senator John McCain and Senator Kelly Ayotte in their re-election bids.
Earlier reports suggested Pence was mirroring Trump’s decision to withhold endorsing the Republican Senators, but his aids...
While Americans are justifiably focused on the fascinating presidential campaign, there is a U.S. Senate primary in Arizona coming up on August 30th that could use a bit of attention.
Republican Senate primary voters are currently split between several candidates. One of the better positioned hopefuls, Alex Meluskey, has just dropped out...
Numerous news reports have covered the Navy’s report on the capture of ten U.S. sailors in January by Iran, notably the Navy’s decision to discipline nine officers and sailors over the incident. But the media buried a bigger part of the incident in the Navy’s report. Here’s Politico, quoting from Chief of...
Tone deaf? How does it work?
This. This is how it works.
Monday, the RNC sent a round of fundraising emails addressed from failed Presidential Candidate, Senator McCain.
