RICKY TWISDALE17 hours
ago
John McCain marked his
return to the Senate with a disingenuous address attacking President Trump,
earning a standing ovation from Democrats
US Senator John McCain
made a dramatic return to the US Senate on Tuesday, following a
diagnosis of brain cancer and
having a blood clot removed from above his left eye.
McCain made the trip back
to Washington from where he was receiving treatment at the elite Mayo Clinic,
in order to cast a crucial vote to move forward debate on Donald Trump’s
healthcare bill. The bill’s been stalled in the senate due to opposition from
several Republicans and the entire Democratic caucus.
McCain and Trump have
been staunch opponents since Trump declared his candidacy for president. The
two don’t see eye-to-eye on a number of issues, especially foreign policy
vis-a-vis Russia and Syria. But in this case, the president personally thanked
McCain on Twitter for his vote:
So great that John McCain is coming back to
vote. Brave - American hero! Thank you John.
Yet if Trump thought
McCain was going to slip unnoticed into the senate, cast his vote, and slip
quietly back to his hospital bed, he was to be disappointed.
McCain made a great show
of his entrance to the senate chamber, arriving fashionably late, and then
giving a
grandstanding speech in
which he slammed his own party’s legislative strategy, calling for compromise
with Democrats (who have steadfastly refused any form of compromise with
President Trump or Republicans).
In a 15 minute moralizing
address, the old neo-con took at least three thinly veiled swipes at his own
president, whom he was ostensibly there to support. Firstly, McCain made it
clear that despite voting to start debate, he had no intention of voting for passage
of Trumpcare:
I voted for the motion to
proceed to allow debate to continue and amendments to be offered. I will
not vote for the bill as it is today. It’s a shell of a bill right now.
Secondly, although the
vote was about healthcare, McCain took the opportunity to assault the
president’s authority to determine the nation’s foreign policy, insisting that
the senate was co-equal with the president in foreign affairs:
We are an important check
on the powers of the Executive. Our consent is necessary for the
President to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and in many
respects to conduct foreign policy…we play a vital role in shaping and
directing the judiciary, the military, and the cabinet, in planning and
supporting foreign and domestic policies
McCain would have never
made such a statement during the glory days of neo-con moron George W. Bush and
his aggressive war on Iraq. But now that the nation has a president, even a
president of his own party, who believes peace is preferable and and seeks detente
Russia, the old Russophobic warmonger is ready to usurp the president’s
prerogatives.
Article II of the US
constitution requires the president to seek the “advice and consent” of the
senate in the making of treaties, and appointment of ambassadors, cabinet
members, supreme court judges, and other public officers as congress may
direct.
Since the founding of the
republic, this has always been interpreted to mean the senate must approve the
president’s treaties and appointments. It does not mean that the senate, to say
nothing of individual senators like McCain and doppelgänger Lindsey Graham,
may carry on their own foreign policy contrary to that of the president.
There is only one
head-of-state. And the conduct of a nation’s foreign affairs properly belongs
only to the head-of-state and those whom he appoints to exercise that function.
John McCain knows this,
but he decided to use what could well end up his final speech on the senate
floor to attack Donald Trump’s constitutional authority to determine US foreign
policy. In doing so he attacked the US constitution itself just as he has in
every illegal and undeclared war, conflict, and coup he and his ilk have
supported over the last several decades.
But McCain wasn’t
finished. He then launched into a noble sermon extolling American
Exceptionalism, slamming President Trump’s immigration policy in the process:
America has made a
greater contribution than any other nation to an international order that has
liberated more people from tyranny and poverty than ever before in history. We
have been the greatest example, the greatest supporter and the greatest
defender of that order. We aren’t afraid. “We don’t covet other people’s land
and wealth. We don’t hide behind walls. We breach them. We are a
blessing to humanity.
“A blessing to humanity”
– apart from placing the Washington globalist empire on a level equal to Lord
Himself, and the ludicrous idea that the US liberates peoples through invasion,
bombing, and fomenting internal strife – which I suppose McCain might actually
believe – the lowest point in McCain’s disgracefully disingenuous speech no
doubt was his swipe at Trump’s border wall plans.
McCain himself has been a
strong advocate for mass amnesty
for illegal aliens,
and seems to think there is no problem with millions of drug dealers, gang
members, murderers, sex slavers, and other miscellaneous criminals pouring into
his own state of Arizona. At the same time he insists the US and Europe push
Russia to the brink of World War III to defend a genocidal coup regime in
Ukraine which claims it is defending its borders from Russia by shelling the
civilian population of Donetsk.
There could hardly be a
more repulsive irony.
At the conclusion of his
speech, Sen. McCain received a standing ovation from Chuck Schumer and the
Democrats.
It was to describe
disgusting treasonous cretins like John McCain that the terms “RINO” and
“cuckservative” were fashioned. No one better exemplifies them that “Songbird”
McCain, who began his treasonous
career in Vietnam by
spilling every classified secret he knew to the North Vietnamese as well
as making propaganda broadcasts.
It was a family tradition
inherited from his father, who helped cover
up the Israeli attack on
the USS Liberty in 1967 which killed 34 American sailors.
And it is pattern he has
continued over decades of service to the neo-con globalist cause, sacrificing
American peace and security in the process, all the while falsely claiming the
moral high ground as its champion.
It is high time for John
McCain to retire – either to hospital or to prison. America and the world have
suffered enough from his brand of pseudo-patriotism.
As for healthcare –
President Trump should not count on McCain’s support in this or any other
endeavor. Like most of his careerist colleagues, his only loyalty is to
himself.
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