Tag: John McCain
McCain Takes Firm Stand on Waterboarding
I don’t give a damn what the president of the United States wants to do. We will not waterboard. We will not torture people… It doesn’t work.
— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), issuing a fiery warning to President-elect Donald Trump on the subject of torture, Politico reports. Anyone who tries to resume torture, McCain said would find themselves in court “in a New York minute.”
McCain Paints Himself Into a Corner on SCOTUS
I promise you that we will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put up.
— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), quoted by CNN, saying Republicans will block any Supreme Court picks she might make.
Let’s Just Say He’s Pro-Gun
$7,740,221
The amount the NRA has given Sen. John McCain (R-Az) over the years, more than anyone else in Congress. McCain recently voted against a ban that would keep people on the federal No-Fly list from buying guns.
Palin’s Trump Endorsement Is Her Ultimate Betrayal of John McCain
Political news this week has been dominated by Donald Trump’s latest spotlight-grabbing stunt — his endorsement by Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain’s 2008 vice-presidential nominee, whose ineptitude and stubborn ignorance were major factors in the GOP’s loss to Barack Obama that year.
“He’s a war hero ’cause he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured, OK?”
– Donald Trump, smearing John McCain’s military service in July
– Donald Trump, smearing John McCain’s military service in July
In rescuing Palin from well-earned obscurity and thrusting her onto the national stage again, Trump got what he wanted, at least in the short term. Coverage of Palin’s word-salad-y endorsement speech led the nightly news broadcasts on ABC, CBS and NBC Monday night. Both legit cable news networks, MSNBC and CNN covered the event live, as did Fox.
But in her MSNBC show that night Rachel Maddow made a point that everyone else overlooked.
