McCain Sides With Democrats, Says Rand Paul Is Bolstering Case For Filibuster Reform By Blocking The NDAA
Submitted by AnAppealToHeavenWash on Tue, 12/04/2012 - 01:18Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) said Tuesday on the Senate floor that Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) efforts to block the National Defense Authorization Act validates Democrats’ arguments for reforming the filibuster.
“I find it disappointing that one member of the United States Senate feels that his particular agenda is so important that it affects the lives and the readiness and the capabilities of the men and women who are serving in the military and our ability to defend this nation,” McCain said. “I think it’s hard to answer to the men and women in the military with this kind of behavior, but I will leave that up to the senator from Kentucky to do so.”
Paul said he would filibuster the NDAA unless an amendment guaranteeing the right to a trial for Americans accused of terrorism went up for a vote in the Senate.
McCain said the hold “lends some credence to the argument that maybe we ought not to do business the way that we are doing it here in the United States Senate,” McCain said.
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Im not going to vote down or
Im not going to vote down or up... but just because he serves in the military, gives him the right to pass unconstitutional bills that remove and individuals right to a trial? Military personnel serve to PROTECT the Constitution, I dont give two shits if he was in the military... he's a dangerous individual who has no place in our government.
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Lives up to his nickname.
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Wow
I'm holding back what I really want to say about McCain. Atrocious.
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Bump
At least he is trying to protect liberty. We don't have Ron Paul there anymore. I'm grateful for Rands help up on the hill.
So McCain views the Bill of
So McCain views the Bill of Rights as a particular agenda for one US Senator? Most would say that the men and women he is using in his argument are serving our country under the belief that they are fighting to protect that particular agenda.
"Where liberty is, there is my country." -Benjamin Franklin
Yes! Thank you for saying that.
McShame is disloyal to the Constitution and along with his like minded colleagues, is unfit to serve the people of the U.S.A. He is just another status quo example of a politician who deems himself a public master and in no way reflects the character a public servant.
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Mr. McCain said ...
Mr. McCain said :
“I find it disappointing that one member of the United States Senate feels that his particular agenda is so important that it affects the lives and the readiness and the capabilities of the men and women who are serving in the military and our ability to defend this nation[...]”
FAIR ENOUGH, Mr McCain.
How about :
asking the U.S. military, AND ONLY ALL OF THE U.S. MILITARY, NOBODY ELSE - not even YOU or I - to vote for or against NDAA ?
Here is MY PROMISE, McCain : after just a one-week national poll post-announcement ... you'll find yourself IN THE DIRE NEED TO RIG THE VOTE.
With My Sincere Contempt,
P.S.
Feel absolutely free to choke on this, Mr. McCain :
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment
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I thought Randalready got that
in the Feinstein amendment. What is mad John talking about?
That tumor
has metastasized into McCain's conscience. The country was better off before he retired from crashing airplanes.
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