Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Does John McCain Think Americans Elect a Dictator?

As weak as the Constitution is in protecting liberty, it does not appear that Senator John McCain understands the three branches of power created as part of the Constitution. It sounds as though he believes all debate stops once a President states a desire. Here is McCain on the Senate floor, objecting to Ted Cruz's opposition to Obamacare:
 I’d remind my colleagues that, in the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it’s called — and I’ll be more polite, the ACA — was a subject that was a major issue in the campaign. I campaigned all over America for two months, everywhere I could. And in every single campaign rally I said “we had to repeal and replace Obamacare.” Well, the people spoke. They spoke, much to my dismay, but they spoke and they re-elected the President of the United States. No that doesn’t mean that we give up our efforts to try to replace and repair Obamacare. But it does mean elections have consequences and those elections were clear, in a significant majority, that the majority of the American people supported the President of the US and renewed his stewardship of this country. I don’t like it, it’s not something that I wanted the outcome to be. But I think all of us should respect the outcome of elections, which reflects the will of the people.

8 comments:

  1. The will of the people. OK, then to be consistent McCain is advocating that the CIA should stop intervening in Syria. Furthermore, congress shall ignore all poling (PPP, Rasmussen, etc) even when it's politically suitable.

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  2. Sen. John McCain (R-Lucifer) continues to be wrong about the nature of elections and politics. (Is it any small wonder that he lost the 2008 presidential campaign, exhibiting such a wooden understanding of macro politics?!) The 2012 electorate, exercising its collective "wisdom" made it's decision for a sundry of reasons... including the promise of plundered goods. That is to say, it voted for president Obama with the clear understanding that once he was returned to office, he would steal from one sector of the population to give to them. Oh, by the way, a vast majority of Americans did not vote for president Obama.

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  3. "But I think all of us should respect the outcome of elections, which reflects the will of the people."

    No it does not. It reflects only about 30 percent of the people in a Presidential election.

    Anyway, why would 51 people out of 100 reflect the will of the 100 as a whole?

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  4. Public Opinion via John McCain's Twitter feed, which has nothing to do with the tweet's subject:

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    @SenJohnMcCain how did it feel at your town hall to hear the people think you are a POS, and a traitor?

    (name removed)
    (named removed) @SenJohnMcCain Because he's a Sell-Out Joe, we should've let him rot in the cage he was in in Vietnam..Disgrace to America

    (name removed)
    @SenJohnMcCain (name removed) @KellyAyotte @GrahamBlog Please just go away!

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    @(name removed) They're at the cocktail party, with the rest of the DC drunks---> @SenJohnMcCain @KellyAyotte @GrahamBlog

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  5. What it sounds like to me is that there are certain factions within the (R) party with different ideas about how to fight this. Cruz et al. are "trying" to prevent Obamacare from ever getting off the ground. McCain, on the other hand, seems to imply to me that there is another faction of (R)s who would welcome the implementation of Obamacare so that they can place it squarely at the feet of the (D)s come 2016, since it's pretty clear that it's going to be a clusterf%*&k of epic proportions. They probably think that people will rightly be pissed off about it, and if they can blame the (D)s for it, it's a win in their book. It's all just posturing for power, and the different ways to ensure they get to dish it out.

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    1. I think you're correct, and it's disgusting the contempt these power mad psychos have for "the little people"!

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  6. Poor John Insane. It sure sounds like sour grapes to me. As for me, I guess I'd rather have ObummerCare than WWIII... but hey, I may get both.

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  7. John McCain Rebukes Ted Cruz: 'Appeasers' Remark a 'Great Disservice to Brave Americans' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_pxKZuX8so

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