McCain: We Should Be 'Embarrassed' About Shutdown, GOP Pushed 'False Premise' on Obamacare

[Tx4obama]

VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/mccain-we-should-be-embarrassed-about-shutdown-gop-pushed-false-premise-on-obamacare/

Senator John McCain has been one of the strongest Republican voices in Congress opposing the conservative efforts to repeal, defund, or delay Obamacare. He took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to continue pressing that point, as well as scolding Congress and saying they should all be “ashamed” for allowing the government shutdown to keep going.

McCain was set off by the news that during the shutdown, military benefits are being held up. He said Congress is so unpopular that “we’re down to blood relatives and paid staffers” at this point, asking his colleagues, “Shouldn’t we be embarrassed about this? Shouldn’t we be ashamed?”

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[Skittles]

1. it doesn't make up for inflicting Sarah Palin on us

but......thank you Senator McCain

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. True that

[rhett o rick]

4. I dont think he was given a choice re. Palin. The Powers To Be selected her. nm

[Skittles]

5. he ran with it

and she is big teabagger hero

[denverbill]

6. Oh, I completely disagree with you there.

McCain knew conservatives didn't like him at all. They actually tried to recall him in AZ at one point, which isn't even legal. He knew conservatives were not exactly thrilled with him and weren't exactly going to beat a path to the polls, so he needed someone to fire up the base, and a young, attractive bomb-thrower was just the ticket. I don't think the 'powers to be' selected her even remotely.

[rhett o rick]

7. I cant imagine those that run the Republican Party, and it sure aint McCain, would allow him

to chose his running mate. Why? I dont think he ever liked her and blamed her for dragging him down. IMO McCain is a moran tool of those running the Republican Party.

[RiverNoord]

23. There is only one honorable act for a person in a situation like

McCain's. If he really is ashamed of his party, then he should denounce it and resign. That's a message that goes much, much further than a bit of chatter on the Senate floor.

[Liberalynn]

3. Yes your party should be ashamed

Grampy Mcsame. I also get you are trying to appear sane now but your "Maverick Game Changer" Sarah played a very strong part in bringing some of these nutballs out from under the rocks and by association and silence you equally are to blame.

[kwolf68]

18. But isn't that good

McCain did us all a favor...it gave the far-right Tea Party TheoCratic Fascists confidence to "come out the closet"...a few "rape is a gift from gods" and government shutdown later and these people are ostracizing themselves by the very virtue of their rhetoric driving the right in this nation further into the niche' enclave of snake-handling bible thumpers and new-right militias.

NO, McCain may have saved the republic because the monster is out the bag.

[groundloop]

8. There he goes, acting all mavericky again!

It's interesting that this is his opinion, but I doubt that tea-baggers will give this one millisecond of thought.

[B Calm]

36. Best reply of all! LOL

[snooper2]

9. This dude says something correct literally like twice a year

It's like every six months all of his synapses are firing correctly, then he's fucked till it happens again LOL

[ProSense]

10. Yet

"McCain: We Should Be 'Embarrassed' About Shutdown, GOP Pushed 'False Premise' on Obamacare"

...he voted against the clean CR

Senate Passes 'Clean' CR to Avoid Shutdown, Punts to House

Finally, Friday afternoon, the body, in a vote of 54 to 44, passed its version of a CR to avoid a government shutdown on October 1. The Senate-passed version amended a previously passed version from the House of Representatives.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/government/2013/09/27/senate-passes-clean-cr-to-avoid-shutdown-punts-to-house/

Roll call: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00209

Tweet: Harry Reid calls out Republicans for not voting on compromise CR
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023809676

Harry Reid Compromised On Shutdown Negotiation, House Republican Acknowledges
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/05/harry-reid-shutdown_n_4050400.html

So much for the BS false equivalency. Even Republicans and Fox know that the Democrats have compromised.

Republicans are not playing by the rules, they're abusing their power
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023808698

[Voice for Peace]

11. maverick op

[joeybee12]

12. You reap what you sow, McLame Poopy Pants...

You helped set this idocy in motion and its the height of ingorance and hypocrisy to act as if you have any shame.

[nolabear]

13. There's always the McCain Moment in these issues.

McCain has beaucoup flaws but he does seem to get to WTF often and objects to the bull goose looney contingent.

[RobinA]

33. Yep,

McCain is a throwback to when the party was sane. He has his crazy moments when he tries to balance the then and the now that come out a little (or a lot) wacky, but I do think that way deep in his brain he's probably got common sense buried. If the PTB don't like him it's a good sign, given who the PTB are.

[JHB]

14. The lead your people out of it, John...

Either cast out the radicals out of your party, or walk out of it yourself. And lead others to do the same.

Don't be embarrassed. Don't be ashamed. Act.

[DonCoquixote]

15. I agree

If you are really so embarrassed, leave them. Sadly, a faction of democrats will welcome you with open arms, especially if Hillary backs you up.

[JHB]

16. More likely they'd become independents...

...or form the core of their own new moderate party.

For a name I'd suggest "Free Republicans".



(I'd pity the hamsters, though)

[riqster]

28. Now, that's funny nt

[ecstatic]

17. +1. He loves cameras. He should schedule a presser

and demand that the teabaggers stand down! Reopen gov't and pay the bills!

[ProSense]

19. McCain Would Like To See House Vote On Clean CR

McCain Would Like To See House Vote On Clean CR

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that the House should vote on a clean continuing resolution to fund the government on CNN's 'The Situation Room.'

Anchor Wolf Blitzer asked McCain if the House should vote on a clean bill without any language defunding or delaying the Affordable Care Act.

"I would like to see that," McCain responded.

McCain called the Tea Party attempt to use the continuing resolution to defund Obamacare a "fool's errand."

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mccain-would-like-to-see-house-vote-on-clean-cr

[daybranch]

20. He again lies

and uses term Congress ignoring the fact that the people know who caused the shutdown and republicans become less popular everyday as dems become stronger and more popular.

[Beartracks]

21. The GOP's shame gene was Newtralized almost 20 years ago.

I think it's been pretty well excised in the last couple of election cycles.

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[beac]

22. From the man who to this day still says he is

"very proud" of Sarah Palin.

Nice selective sense of shame there, McNasty.

[BlueCheese]

24. Every so often, McCain reminds us why we sort of liked him a long time ago.

I like the "blood relatives and paid staffers" line. I think the second cousins are about to jump ship, and the first cousins aren't far behind.

I do remember him doing the surprising and right thing on a number of occasions. Among other things, I remember him grilling some radio executives about their blacklisting of the Dixie Chicks, criticizing the Bush administration for preventing unionizing of TSA personnel, and releasing an epic snark bomb against his primary opponent for questioning Obama's birthplace, complete with scenes from the Lion King.

It's really too bad that presidential campaigns are often exercises in building up hatred. Before 2008, Obama and McCain were probably two of the politicians most palatable to the other side. Now each side despises the other one.

[BlueCheese]

25. One of McCain's greatest moments.

His satire of his Arizona Senate primary opponent, J.D. Hayworth:

[Berlin Expat]

30. I've never

seen that ad; I have to say, that's brilliant. Hopefully, whoever came up with that Castle Bravo fifteen megaton snark bomb got a good-sized bonus.

[liberal N proud]

26. Gramps is an accomplice in this

He introduced teabagger Palin to the nation.

[xfundy]

27. History could have seen him a merely a flawed Senator, while honoring him for his military service.

But no, he had to align with Palin. Now he's known as a cranky, out of touch asshole. Too bad, so sad.

[blkmusclmachine]

29. Meh.

[4bucksagallon]

31. He could jump ship but where would he go.....Nah he is too vested in the "maverick" label

within the Republican Party and he likes it.

[BigBearJohn]

32. I guess he took his spinal medication

[deutsey]

34. I was going to say that me makes so much more sense when he's on his meds n/t

[Berlum]

35. Yes, the RepubliBaggers should be ashamed of themselves

Americans will long remember that the Baggers (R) shit all over them.

[Snotcicles]

37. He is only embarrassed and ashamed because they are unpopular. Not because

of the suffering they cause and their destruction of this country.