10-18-2017, 12:56 AM
(10-17-2017, 07:08 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(10-17-2017, 04:45 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Re John McCain:
With John McCain, the definition of a statesman as a politician who needs never face another election (he is obviously approaching death, and we know it) fits well. Because an appointed Republican would be up for re-election in a state that has become a legitimate swing state, I can now imagine the Republicans losing two Senate seats in Arizona. Appointed Senators must be re-elected in the next midterm.
Hoping the best for him is now more theological than anything else now.
Yes, but meanwhile, I hope he hangs on for a while. His one vote sank two horrible Obamacare repeal and replace bills. I don't think he's too keen on the tax relief for the rich and raise the debt astronomically bill either, and I don't believe he's against DACA kids (dreamers). Am I wrong? I certainly don't trust an AZ governor to appoint anyone but a right-wing asshole to replace McCain.
So do I. But I did hear him talk (through TV) when he was getting an award in Philadelphia. I would like to see more Republicans start choosing principle and decency of partisanship -- and getting away with it. He sounded and looked like death warned over. You can trust that I know the look. In the last ten years I have seen six people on the days of or the day just before their deaths -- people that I have known for considerable times. No, I am not in and have never been in a medical occupation.
John McCain is not and has never been a liberal. But one need not be a liberal to oppose bureaucratic cruelty, corruption, pointless military adventures, and fiscal waste.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.