Here comes the McCain speech at CPAC
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jcbraithwaite7
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Man I hope Ron Paul rocks the place... but they sound like a bunch of neocon warmongers
AlbemarleNC0003
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He's making Reagan's nomination acceptance speech. Just a little out of order.
AlbemarleNC0003
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Is he a felon?
nosebruise
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"my liberties were taken away and i was forced to screw prostitutes at a torture camp." ;__;
ConstitutionGal
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I've thought for some time now that he's the REAL Manchurian Candidate. The more I hear him talk, the more I think I've been right.
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McCain, "I will continue to fight for the line item veto!"
Crowd at 'conservative' convention : "Cheers!"
Wikipedia: "the line item veto is unconstitutional"
Presidents have repeatedly asked Congress to give them a line item veto power. According to Louis Fisher in The Politics of Shared Power, Ronald Reagan said to Congress in his 1986 State of the Union address, "Tonight I ask you to give me what forty-three governors have: Give me a line-item veto this year. Give me the authority to veto waste, and I'll take the responsibility, I'll make the cuts, I'll take the heat." Bill Clinton echoed the request in his State of the Union address in 1995.
The President was briefly granted this power by the Line Item Veto Act of 1996, passed by Congress in order to control "pork barrel spending" that favors a particular region rather than the nation as a whole. The line-item veto was used 11 times to strike 82 items from the federal budget by President Bill Clinton. [3][4]
However, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas F. Hogan ruled on February 12, 1998, that unilateral amendment or repeal of only parts of statutes violated the U.S. Constitution. This ruling was subsequently affirmed on June 25, 1998, by a 6-3 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case Clinton v. City of New York. The case was brought by the then New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.
A constitutional amendment to give the President line item veto power has been considered periodically since the Court ruled the 1996 act unconstitutional. Some scholars, including Louis Fisher, believe the line item veto would give presidents too much power over government spending compared with the power of Congress"
Me: Scratches head.
Crowd at 'conservative' convention : "Cheers!"
Wikipedia: "the line item veto is unconstitutional"
Presidents have repeatedly asked Congress to give them a line item veto power. According to Louis Fisher in The Politics of Shared Power, Ronald Reagan said to Congress in his 1986 State of the Union address, "Tonight I ask you to give me what forty-three governors have: Give me a line-item veto this year. Give me the authority to veto waste, and I'll take the responsibility, I'll make the cuts, I'll take the heat." Bill Clinton echoed the request in his State of the Union address in 1995.
The President was briefly granted this power by the Line Item Veto Act of 1996, passed by Congress in order to control "pork barrel spending" that favors a particular region rather than the nation as a whole. The line-item veto was used 11 times to strike 82 items from the federal budget by President Bill Clinton. [3][4]
However, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas F. Hogan ruled on February 12, 1998, that unilateral amendment or repeal of only parts of statutes violated the U.S. Constitution. This ruling was subsequently affirmed on June 25, 1998, by a 6-3 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case Clinton v. City of New York. The case was brought by the then New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.
A constitutional amendment to give the President line item veto power has been considered periodically since the Court ruled the 1996 act unconstitutional. Some scholars, including Louis Fisher, believe the line item veto would give presidents too much power over government spending compared with the power of Congress"
Me: Scratches head.
Speaking at CPAC McCain spoke about electing a Democrat would take us back to dark days where our freedom is taken away. Then not 2 minutes later he called the Democrats out for blocking the wiretap expansion bill. I guess McCain doesn’t believe freedom is an absolute. That reminds me of someone. Someone who has destroyed the Republican party the last 8 years.
It’s official. John McCain is running for George W. Bush’s 3rd term. I’m just waiting for the crowd to start chanting, “Four more years… Four more years.”
What a crock.
It’s official. John McCain is running for George W. Bush’s 3rd term. I’m just waiting for the crowd to start chanting, “Four more years… Four more years.”
What a crock.
mayavision2012
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Oh, I meant the part about
"Fox News just released a report on the PTSD and schizoid behavior of John McCain"
This was in the meetup newsletter I just received. Has anyone seen further reports on Fox dissing McCain? The e-mail is definitely from our valid meetup.
"Fox News just released a report on the PTSD and schizoid behavior of John McCain"
This was in the meetup newsletter I just received. Has anyone seen further reports on Fox dissing McCain? The e-mail is definitely from our valid meetup.
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They cheered Cheney earlier for mentioning Bush.
