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Home Front: Politix
John McCain Said He Was Against Obama's #DACA Executive Order, But Attacks Trump's For Ending It
[Right Wing News] We all know John McCain is a Democrat in a Republican hat, but the more he opens his unimaginably moronic pie hole, the more people want to punch him in his Mr. Potato Head-looking face.

Despite his claims that he didn’t support President Obama’s Executive Order (DACA,) he is now criticizing Trump for putting an end to it. He has either forgotten what side of the aisle he is supporting this week, or he’s been so confused by why his liberal puppet masters are trying to get him to do that he is just throwing things at the wall to see if they’ll stick.

Either way, the fact that he has a permanent spot on the fence doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence in the people who elected Republicans to get things done.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 07:31 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He was for the Constitution and law, before he was against them. Envious Casca.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/06/2017 8:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Isn't it time to start thinking about yourself senator? Such things as your Advance Decision Form for example.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 8:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Poster boy for Term Limits.

Too bad we can't make it retroactive...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/06/2017 8:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Arizonians need to retire this guy for his sake and for the good of the country.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/06/2017 8:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Senator, here's your DNR form.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/06/2017 9:45 Comments || Top||

#6  If only I could do as well in figuring out how to have my cake and eat it too.
Posted by: gorb || 09/06/2017 10:10 Comments || Top||

#7  If I understood the news yesterday Trump was saying DACA was unconstitutional and that he wanted Congress to basically fix immigration law to make it legal or Trump will revisit the issue and send them a bill to vote on.

So Trump killed the unconstitutional law and then is forcing the Congress to put their names on the dotted line which is their job but also something they prefer not to do because jawing and moaning is more fun.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/06/2017 10:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Go away McStain. You are such a fraud and a hypocrite.

The faster you leave this earth the happier I'll be.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/06/2017 10:32 Comments || Top||

#9  Send Obama the fookin bill for this mess.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/06/2017 10:37 Comments || Top||

#10  "I was against it before I was for it".

D*mn, sounds like the wording structure of someone else we knew....
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/06/2017 10:41 Comments || Top||

#11  He's just a bitter old man fulminating about successful people to distract himself from his own failures but it's far too late for him to do anything about it. It's pathetic. Why anybody even listens to him anymore is beyond me.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/06/2017 10:55 Comments || Top||

#12  I doubt he's buying any green bananas.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 12:21 Comments || Top||

#13  Then he needs to do his job and make it a law. Congress is there to pass laws, not suck pork...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 09/06/2017 12:27 Comments || Top||

#14  Our 2008 nominee for president...

Why do I keep bringing that up? Because 1) it's now completely obvious to every sentient being that it was a mistake, and 2) the primary process that nominated ... this man ... remains unrepaired.
Posted by: Iblis || 09/06/2017 15:18 Comments || Top||

#15  We had much better candidates during the Republican primary in 2008 but all the money went to McCain. Tells you something about the people who contribute big money to presidential candidates...the same people who put up the money for ¡Jeb! and the same people who are now doing everything in their power to undermine Trump. But it's too late for McCain.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/06/2017 15:27 Comments || Top||

#16  Did they build "the dang fence" yet?


#4  Arizonians need to retire this guy for his sake and for the good of the country.


As long as Senate seniority is so boodlelicious, this isn't likely to happen.

Even a "conservative" state like AZ can't resist.
Posted by: charger || 09/06/2017 18:36 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/06/2017 20:04 Comments || Top||


Hillary Clinton ready to pick up big bucks for explaining why she's a big loser
[FoxNews] What happened?! Hillary Clinton obviously left off the question and exclamation marks from her book title, but no worries. If anyone has been confused about what happened last November, things were just cleared up by a simple meme on Twitter.

The photo shows a copy of Hillary's upcoming campaign memoir, "What Happened," next to another book – titled "I Happened." The second book cover shows a picture of a grinning President Donald Trump.

Simple, funny and most of all, true.

But if that answer isn't enough for Hillary supporters, they have a chance to have Hillary personally tell them a fairy tale, but only if they cough up $150 to nearly $2,400 for tickets and the privilege of seeing her in the flesh.

Hillary abandoned her supporters on election night, but hey, why go down to speak for free when you can wait until your book is finished and then charge everyone an arm and leg to hear your excuses for losing?

The promotional material for the book tour wants to make sure you know how much of a victim Hillary really is: "She speaks about the challenges of being a strong woman in the public eye, the criticism over her voice, age, and appearance, and the double standard confronting women in politics."

The book tour promo material goes on to talk about the Russians. "She lays out how the 2016 election was marked by an unprecedented assault on our democracy by a foreign adversary. By analyzing the evidence and connecting the dots, Hillary shows just how dangerous the forces were that shaped the outcome."

Oh, so the Russians told Hillary to call half the electorate "deplorable" and "irredeemable?" Got it.

The truth is, in fact, boring and predictable. Hillary lost because of Hillary, including the conspiracy nonsense she peddles promoting "dangerous forces" as an excuse for her desperate inability to be honest and face reality.

During the election, Hillary took supporters – and the American people in general – for granted. And now she's taking them for a ride. Just ask Democrats in Wisconsin, a state she couldn't be bothered to visit during the campaign because, as the Borg know full well, resistance is futile.

Until it's not.

So don't fret Milwaukee! You are now on the list as Hillary is deigning to pay you a visit on the book tour. Yes, a year late, but she's confident in her contempt, and she's sure you'll pay her to lecture you.

On this day, as Houston is only really beginning to assess the damage of Hurricane Harvey, one wonders who could really use that $150 to nearly $2,400 that Hillary is pocketing for the pleasure of her company. People, their pets, and other animals who need rescuing from a hurricane's bacteria-laden flood waters? Families who need shelter and food to survive the aftermath? Or a twice-failed multimillionaire politician looking to cash in on her latest fiasco?
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 09/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At some point, Hillary, you've made enough money.
Posted by: Raj || 09/06/2017 2:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Another book advance scam. Legal bribery "just in case" she rises from the dead.

Hitting the bookstore clearance piles in 5, 4, 3, ...
Posted by: PBMcL || 09/06/2017 2:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Ready to pick up big bucks?

She and Bill stay 'ready' to keep from having to get 'ready.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 5:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Some things are self-explanatory. They just are.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/06/2017 7:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Carrying the "there's a sucker born every minute" game onward.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/06/2017 8:05 Comments || Top||

#6  She's old news. She's almost as pathetic as McCain. Why on earth would anybody buy her book much less shell out $2400 to see her in person?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/06/2017 10:59 Comments || Top||

#7  I understand we've dropped waterboarding for a far more effective interrogation technique: listening to her reading in her audiobook
Posted by: Frank G || 09/06/2017 11:03 Comments || Top||

#8  She's old news. She's almost as pathetic as McCain. Why on earth would anybody buy her book much less shell out $2400 to see her in person?

If airfare and per diem were included, I'd give $2400. for a 'viewing'.... some serious consideration.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 12:16 Comments || Top||

#9  It will be interesting and telling to see how the book performs sales-wise once released to the public.
Posted by: Eltoroverde || 09/06/2017 12:25 Comments || Top||

#10  It'd be like going to a carnival freak show. Ten cents is about all I'd pay and only if it was on my way to something else.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/06/2017 12:45 Comments || Top||

#11  Hillary has been the best thing to happen to Republicans in a long time. She scooped up hundreds of millions (maybe a billion) of leftist dollars for her campaigns in 08 and 16, ticked off the bernie faction and continues to embarrass the Dem party.

Yes it is annoying to read about her, but it has been a blessing to have her in politics.
Posted by: lord garth || 09/06/2017 12:46 Comments || Top||


Obama makes rare re-entry into politics for 'Dreamers'
This isn't the second or third time our beloved former president has vented his opinion to the world since retiring from the active life of politics, making the current emission merely tiresomely common.
[Iran Press TV] In a rare and lengthy statement following the end of his tenure, the first African American president described Trump’s move as "wrong," "self-defeating" and "cruel."

"To target these young people is wrong -- because they have done nothing wrong. It is self-defeating -- because they want to start new businesses, staff our labs, serve in our military, and otherwise contribute to the country we love. And it is cruel... It's a political decision, and a moral question," Obama wrote on Tuesday. "Whatever concerns or complaints Americans may have about immigration in general, we shouldn't threaten the future of this group of young people who are here through no fault of their own, who pose no threat, who are not taking away anything from the rest of us."

His vice president, Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
, has also reacted to the move by taking to Twitter.
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All previous presidents have had the class to refrain from criticizing their predecessors. Then there's this guy.
Posted by: Raj || 09/06/2017 1:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Um, successors...
Posted by: Raj || 09/06/2017 1:48 Comments || Top||

#3  I know. Seems kinda odd using any word like "success" in a sentence that mentions 0bumhole.
Posted by: gorb || 09/06/2017 3:17 Comments || Top||

#4  TFG = This F'g Guy
Posted by: Frank G || 09/06/2017 7:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Rare? The guy won't f'king shut up!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/06/2017 7:57 Comments || Top||

#6  As rare as hen's beaks
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/06/2017 7:58 Comments || Top||

#7  As rare as water in Houston today.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/06/2017 8:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Rare re-entry? Bullshit.

He is back in politics more often than a sailor is in a whore during fleet week.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/06/2017 11:27 Comments || Top||

#9  I didn't know "Every other week" was rare.
Posted by: Charles || 09/06/2017 12:43 Comments || Top||

#10  emission excretion
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/06/2017 15:24 Comments || Top||

#11  Give him credit for understanding that demographics is destiny, and that the Demmunists best chance of permanent rule is to elect a new people.

Gosh, if only there was an opposition party pushing against that scheme.
Posted by: charger || 09/06/2017 16:01 Comments || Top||


Government
Kasich calls on 'reasonable Pubs & Dems' to solve DACA.... for the kids
[CBS] Republican Governor John Kasich of Ohio says that a six-month window for Congress to compose legislation to handle the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program should instead take "six hours" to get accomplished by "reasonable" members of Congress.

"Congress has six months, it should take six hours to get this done, and the way I think they need to do it, they need reasonable Republicans and Democrats from the middle and build out a solution to this," Kasich said on "CBS This Morning" on Wednesday.

Kasich added that the so-called "Dreamers" should have "permanent resident status and they ought to stay and be able to contribute."

The often outspoken governor called the DACA program a "simple moral issue" that can't be solved by political extremists on both sides of the aisle, but instead crafted by "common sense, normal thinking Americans."

While many DACA recepients are now concerned about their own legal status, fearful of possible deportations as a result of the administration's rescinding of the 2012 order, Kasich says "Dreamers" have a home in Ohio.

"We're putting kids, young people in jeopardy, this is not the America that we all love, this is a melting pot," he said. "If the dreamers want to go somewhere and live, come to Ohio, we want all the immigrants to come to Ohio, we know how much immigrants contribute."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 14:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Excellent idea Governor, you have now been appointed the administration DACA project officer.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 14:22 Comments || Top||

#2  For those of you who thought that ObamaCare repeal represented the high water mark of Tame Republican hypocrisy, I give you DACA.
Posted by: Iblis || 09/06/2017 15:16 Comments || Top||

#3  A lot of those 'kids' were/aren't kids.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/06/2017 16:06 Comments || Top||

#4  "If the dreamers want to go somewhere and live, come to Ohio, we want all the immigrants to come to Ohio, we know how much immigrants contribute."

MS 13 has an open invite for a new shithole to operate out of.
Posted by: regular joe || 09/06/2017 16:13 Comments || Top||

#5  All foreign Invaders should either be deported or executed.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/06/2017 16:39 Comments || Top||

#6  You lost me at "Kasich" (again).
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/06/2017 19:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Democrats' favorite Republican right now. Although Juan McStain charging back...
Posted by: Frank G || 09/06/2017 19:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Am I correct that "Dreamers" are the children of illegal aliens (to use the archaic terminology)?
Posted by: Bobby || 09/06/2017 23:40 Comments || Top||



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