John McCain's Whimsical World of Conservatism

Food for thought for the Hillary Clinton Wing of the GOP

by DoughtyOne

1982/00/00 McCain enters Congress, with his family accepts first of nine trips some aboard Keating's leer jet, three of which include stayovers at Keating's Caribbean resort (goes unreported for up to 7 years)
1983/09/28 McCain joins 26 other Republicans to vote with the Majority Party Congressional Democrats to demand U.S. Troops exit Lebanon, winds up on the losing side
1986/04/00 Cindy McCain and her father invest $359,100 in a Charles Keating strip mall
1987/00/00 McCain has received $112,000 by this time for Congressional and Senate campaigns, from Charles Keating, his relatives, and his employees, the largest amount to any Keating 5 member
1987/04/02 McCain joins four Democrats to intercede on behalf of his S&L Owner friend Keating with Ed Gray, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and also banking regulators (2 meetings)
1988/02/11 McCain votes to affirm Anthony Kennedy as a justice for the SCOTUS
1989/00/00 McCain discloses Keating trips as his involvement in the S&L scandal breaks, reimbursing $13,433.00 with no repercussions as late as seven years after the fact
1990/10/02 McCain votes to Confirm Justice David H. Souter from New Hampshire to be an Associate Justice on the SCOTUS Court
1993/10/10 McCain co-sponsors an unsuccessful bill to cut off funding of United States troops in Somalia
1993/08/10 McCain joins the Democrats and most Republicans voting to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the worst justice on the court today. Three Republicans vote Nay.
1993/01/13 McCain and Kerry release the Select Committee report urging the MIA issue be put to rest so that Vietnam could be granted normalized relations with the U.S., over objections by MIA family and veterans groups. Video1 Video2 ( I do not endorse all of the information presented in video1 here. The video does touch on a number of topics, and I think most are germane ) If I could have found video that contained most of this information without touching on McCain's POW experience I would have posted it instead. Still, there are parts of McCain's POW experience that are troubling. I'd just rather not go there. Video2 shows how one MIA family rep is treated, confirming some of the reports in Video1.
1994/07/24 McCain joins with the Democrats to confirm nominee Stephen Breyer to be an Associate Justice on the SCOTUS. Nine Senators voted Nay...
1997/00/00 McCain leads the opposition to the Coats Amendment, preventing government funded fetal tissue research ( derived from "a legal act" [abortion] ) Amendment defeated!
1999/08/19 McCain stated, ""Certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade,"
2000/00/00 McCain joins Democrat Russ Feingold to introduce Campaign Finance Reform, an effort funded by George Soros Article
2000/00/00 McCain was the keynote speaker at the ultra-liberal Philadelphia convention sponsored by George Soros while John F. Kerry keynoted at another Soros event on the same day...
2000/11/20 McCain participates in the production of a gun control spot for Oregon's Proposition Five. (Circa this date, prior to the November election.) Article
2001/00/00 McCain founded the Reform Institute funded by George Soros
2001/05/15 McCain introduces the Gun Show Loophole bill S890, with Carper, Lieberman, DeWine, Clinton, and Schumer co/sponsoring. Analysis
2003/03/19 McCain joins Democrats to vote against drilling in ANWR
2003/10/30 McCain joins Lieberman again, this time to introduce the Climate Stewardship Act (Gorebal worming et al) Thomas Bill S139
2004/06/04 McCain signs letter with 58 Senators, "We write to urge you to expand the current federal policy concerning embryonic stem cell research."
2004/08/05 McCain announces he deplores the Swift Boat adds against Senator John Kerry, and asks the White House to refute them
2005/00/00 McCain resigns from the Reform Institute he founded with George Soros
2005/01/28 McCain declares, "I want us in the ICC (International Criminal Court)", but I would like to see more safeguards first
2005/05/12 McCain joins Ted Kennedy to introduce McCain/Kennedy immigration legislation that would wind up making illegal immigrants citizens (AMNESTY!)
2006/04/28 McCain states, "I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected that has become corrupt."
2006/09/06 McCain joins Dole to write op-ed for the Washington Post, states in part, "We should publicly remind Khartoum that the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes..."
2007/02/17 McCain states he will close Guantanamo Bay terrorist detainment center on his first day in office Video (same as date link on the left)
2007/03/22 McCain gets the pledged support of Chuck and Sue Cobb, Jeb Bush's Florida Director of the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement effort
2007/06/00 McCain joins Baldwin, Shays and Meehan to file an amicus brief against the Wisconsin Right to Life organization brief The wrong side of a pro-life issue, helping pro-abort Feingold
2007/06/18 McCains Gitmo problem, close the base, grant Geneva Convention status, stop water boarding...
2007/10/25 McCain still wants us to sign the L.O.S.T. treaty in time, but does have concerns over sovereignty issues.
2008/03/00 McCain makes his first attempt to tell a state (North Carolina) Republican Party what to do. The RNC joins him.
2008/03/24 McCain hires Meg Whiteman to cochair his Presidential campaign. Whiteman is another wishy washy at best Independent, who has donated to leftist candidates and still doesn't have a clue what side to come down on with regard to illegal immigration. She is leaning toward running for Governor in California and being courted by it's Republican leadership. Links to CalCowGirl's comments regardint Whiteman's donations. Article above.
2008/03/26 McCains speech to the World Affairs Council, Europe may get veto power over some of our foreign policy...
2008/04/08 McCain casts last Senate vote during his Presidential Campaign. By the EOBD 06/24/08, he has missed 367 votes or 61.4% of the Senate votes in the 110th Congress. His last vote before the one he cast on April 8 was cast on 03/14/08. LINK
2008/05/09 McCains interview with O'Reilly... I won't drill in ANWR... it's pretty... I'm an environmentalist. (note: there's a good chance he may have an environMental disorder)
2008/05/12 McCain Joins the Goreball Worming Cult, sounding more like Al Gore every day... McCain's Oregon add Video
2008/05/13 McCain takes an Environmental walk, with the leader of the Cascade Land Conservancy... (another series of fruit loop moments)
2008/05/15 McCain states he will appoint Democrats to his administration, during a Republican teleconference and during a Columbus stump speech
2008/05/27 McCain announces support for severe cutbacks on our nuclear weapons, withdrawing battlefield nukes from Europe and giving our nuclear waste to an international body
2008/06/04 McCain states, "I disagreed strongly with the Bush administration's mismanagement of the war in Iraq."
2008/06/14 McCain tells Clinton supporters they should back him because he voted for Ginsberg and Breyer Said this to Conservatives on 2008/05/07
2008/06/21 It is announced McCain and Obama will address open borders group in Los Angeles on July 18th, 2008, Communists and worst of U.S. Illeagal Alien appologist groups...
2008/06/21 McCain and team realize he has so little credibility on judicial appointments, that they announce he will let Fred Thompson vet his judges. That's 06/21/08's version of truth...
2008/06/28 McCain declares, "I will make comprehensive immigration reform my “top priority,” during my first 100 days in office. He assures Latino leaders that they will have an ally in the White House.

Sat Jun 28 17:27:07 2008 by DoughtyOne
for all links: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2037922/posts?page=26

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In Memory of Danny Michael Milich
Oct. 6, 1947 to June 29, 2008

Husband, father, patriot and my friend.

You shall ALWAYS be my knight in shining armor!

Score ONE for the USA! Heller vs. Wash. DC

MAJOR AWARD!! The Supreme Court gets one right and protects your second amendment rights.

Justices Rule for

Individual Gun Rights

Published: June 27, 2008

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court declared for the first time on Thursday that the Constitution protects an individual’s right to have a gun, not just the right of the states to maintain militias.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/washington/27scotuscnd.html?em&ex=1214625600&en=d8781a94f40d6738&ei=5087

MUST SEE video!!

This is only a couple minutes long. It is a Florida representative of the Attorney General's office describing the beheading of a young Mexican girl in Florida by a gang of human smugglers from Mexico. You might think we'd hear about something like this on the news!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TRGC4KCt2s0

MEXICANS BEHEAD LITTLE GIRL WHO REFUSED TO BE RAPED

More stench from the bench-- YES, it's that bad.

Headline - LAPD Special Order 40 lawsuit dismissed
ABC-TV Los Angeles ^ | June 25, 2008 | Staff

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the LAPD's controversial Special Order 40, which directs officers not to ask arrestees about their immigration status.

The city of Los Angeles and the ACLU had asked the judge to dismiss the suit. A private citizen filed the suit against Special Order 40, calling it essentially a don't-ask-don't-tell policy for undocumented aliens.
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You probably have no idea what this is about. That's because it got no media coverage. It's about a good American kid, Jamiel Shaw, while his mother was serving in Iraq, who was murdered by a gang of illegal alien thugs because he was black. It's about getting Los Angeles to allow law enforcement to ask an alien if he's here legally!

DISMISSED!!! NOT worth the court's bother! Wasn't worth the bother of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson or the media either. A corrupt city and some 'non profit' legal firm has more power than our justice system? Apparently.

Someone made this statement, which is hard to disagree with, but there is another point of view.

“Then they deserve the mess they’ve got with the gangs, destroyed neighborhoods, shootings and all the rest of the illegal alien cultural “benefits”...”

Have you ever lived in a community and watched it be transformed by ‘outsiders’ and all the protesting you did was meaningless? First Southern Oregon went the way of the Southern Californians and ecofreaks moving in and bringing with them their liberal problems....same as the Hispanic illegals.....run away from it, but drag it home to me. Then they instituted a bunch of liberal laws...Oregon health plan, etc. and the invasion really started. Now the illegals know it’s a sanctuary, and it’s full scale.

No, we don’t all deserve it, but like any culture that has been driven from it's home by people who think they deserve what you have, no one hears us. Not even in a court of law...equal justice for all? Well, some of us are more equal than others. The few who hear seem to have no power, but history is full of that problem.

Even if the court had been just and heard this case, and the plaintiff prevailed....who is to say the city of LA would do what the court said. And who would make them? The feds???

In the early 1830’s some Cherokee Indians filed suit against President Jackson and his Indian removal act. They prevailed in the US Supreme court which held the Indians had every right of any US citizen to their lands, that they were as equal as any sovereign state in the union. Jackson said if the Supreme Court wanted their edict enforced, he wasn’t going to do it. And we all know how that turned out, don’t we?

And yes, I do believe it’s gotten that bad again. Look at the 'choice' we've been given for president!

Some historians contend Congressman David Crockett’s political career ended because of his support for the Cherokee against President Jackson’s removal plans. Crockett explains his position in 1834:

“.......His famous, or rather I should say infamous, Indian bill was brought forward, and I opposed it from the purest motives in the world. Several of my colleagues got around me, and told me how well they loved me, and that I was ruining myself. They said this was a favourite measure of the president, and I ought to go for it. I told them I believed it was a wicked, unjust measure, and that I should go against it, let the cost to myself be what it might; that I was willing to go with General Jackson in everything that I believed was honest and right; but further than this I wouldn’t go for him, or any other man in the whole creation.
I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good honest vote, and that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.”

Photos: Jamiel Shaw
March 11 : Friends and teammates react during Jamiel Shaw Jr.'s funeral service. A reputed street gang member was charged with murder in the killing of Shaw, 17, a standout running back at Los Angeles High School, which came amid an outbreak of gang-related violence that has victimized schoolchildren and teens around the city

" The alleged gang member accused of killing Los Angeles high school football star Jamiel Shaw is in the country illegally and had been released from jail without anyone questioning his citizenship the day before Shaw's shooting, according to a report by MyFOXLA.com."

*Title stolen from xcamel!!

All you need to know about this Election & Immigration

John McCain, the media's pick for the GOP presidential candidate, is pandering to the illegal alien lobby, as usual. He'll be attending the National meeting of LaRaza, but doesn't have time to meet with Billy Graham. This week, he set up a series of 'private' meetings with hispanics ONLY.

Way to go, Johnny, divide us up some more! Shall we pretend to be democrats or illegal aliens in order to be heard by you?

Activist patriot Rosanna Pulido, who many of us know and love as 'Chicagolady' , being hispanic, was invited to one such event in Chicago this week. In an interview with AP, she states,

"He's one John McCain in front of white Republicans. And he's a different John McCain in front of Hispanics," complained Rosanna Pulido, a Hispanic and conservative Republican who attended the meeting.......He's having his private meetings to rally Hispanics and to tell them what they want to hear," she said. "I'm outraged that he would reach out to me as a Hispanic but not as a conservative."

Pulido, who heads the Illinois Minuteman Project, which advocates for restrictive immigration laws, said she thought McCain was "pandering to the crowd" by emphasizing immigration reform in his 15-minute speech.

The Article also states, " After the event, McCain met privately with Martin Sandoval, an Illinois state senator and Democratic convention delegate for former candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Sandoval said he left open the possibility of backing McCain, citing his immigration stance and pledge to keep business taxes low."

Isn't that special?

Ms. Pulido was also interviewed last night on the Lou Dobbs Show on CNN. That transcript follows.

Senator McCain is trying to have it both ways on the issue of illegal immigration as well. He’s doing it by pandering of course to ethnocentric interest groups. He assured in Chicago, Hispanic leaders at a late-night meeting that he would help push through legislation giving immigration reform a top priority, giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.

Rosanna Pulido, a Republican of Hispanic origin was at the meeting and she was troubled by many of the things Senator McCain had to say. She joins us tonight from Chicago.

ROSANNA PULIDO: Thanks, Lou. It is a privilege.

DOBBS: This meeting, the McCain campaign objecting to the reports that it was secret. Was it secret?

PULIDO: It was private. It was a private meeting.

DOBBS: Right. And who, who was there? What group, what umbrella?

PULIDO: Well, the Republican Hispanic Assembly was one of the sponsors of it. And there was a lot of different people including Illinois State Senator Martin Sandoval, who I know to be a Democrat.

DOBBS: Right. And what did the senator say? I mean, what is the point of this meeting? He had said to us all, for months that, he had learned, one thing in the campaign and that was border security first. In this meeting he said something quite differently, apparently?

PULIDO: That’s correct. I was hopeful hearing that John McCain got it one day he got it that we want enforcement first. And so I was hopeful going to the meeting, but all I heard was the mantra was comprehensive immigration reform. That to me as an illegal immigration activist is a code word for amnesty. The crowd cheered every time he mentioned those words, those code words. And he also made a statement that did you know that Spanish was the first language spoken in my home state of Arizona before English. The crowd went crazy.

DOBBS: You know the senator is absolutely wrong. Spanish was not the first language spoken in the state of Arizona. In point of fact there were a host of Indian dialects, native American dialects spoken there for hundreds of years before there was any Spanish spoken in Arizona, so somebody needs to counsel the good senator when he is pandering to ethnocentric interest groups.

He probably offended a great deal, great number of people who are Native Americans, from his home state. Don’t you think?

PULIDO: Absolutely and he offended me as a conservative, a Republican, I wish he would pander to me as a conservative. That’s what I would like, a little pandering our way. But as far as I’m concerned, John McCain is kicking the conservatives to the curb.

DOBBS: Well we thank you very much, Rosanna Pulido for being here.
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Well, Lou and Rosanna, I can assure you Mr. McCain offends this Indian and my ancestors!

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You tube --- Lou Dobbs interview with Rosanna Pulido.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bltpx32MPOw

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Post of the Day!

Thanks to bill1952 !

” Unfortunately, McCain’s position on Comprehensive Immigration Reform is pretty well summed up by the bill’s name; McCain/Kennedy, and most of what I see now is his attempt to present a fish as if it is a bear.

It’s a tough job, and it is clear that John believes in his stand on immigration and has trouble in his heart and mind “spinning” it.

Remember that scene in A Few Good Men where Cruise says “I know he wants to say it - he wants to stand up and scream it?”

I strongly feel that this is McCain’s problem. He wants to stand up and say, “Hell yes, I’m for amnesty! That’s my name on the damn bill you damn fools!” - but that would lose him the election. “

Happy Father's Day ----It's been a wild week!

This guy gets it!!! Casa D' Ice........

Bill Balsamico's signs have been getting great reviews. See them here!

Regarding the origin of our name...

For 23 years, I was in the Ice Business and when I sold the business using my legal Italian Heritage, came the name “Casa D' Ice” for “House of Ice”. I can not help it that the Spanish use is the same name for house. So, for those who question my use of "Casa" when I am against illegal aliens, I hope this explains it. (N. Versailles, Pennsylvania)
1901 Lincoln Highway
North Versailles, PA 15137 1901 Lincoln Highway
412-823-8989

The truth of this election........

(Thanks Calcowgirl!)

Arch-conservative Bay Buchanan suggested that it may not matter what McCain does. Writing in Human Events on June 4, she declared:

"In reality there is only one candidate. Barack Obama. In November he will win or he will lose. John McCain is relevant only in so far as he is not Barack Obama. The Senator from Arizona is incapable of energizing his party, brings no new people to the polls, and has a personality that is best kept under wraps."

And has no MONEY!!!!!!! And isn't going to get any from conservatives!

GOP Insiders Worry About McCain's Chances

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/gop_insiders_worry_about_mccai.html

KABAR GETS IT!!

“McCain became the presumptive nominee with 31% of the total primary vote. Winner take all, open primaries helped him become the nominee. He gamed the system. McCain was the only top tier candidate of either party not to win his home state by more than 50%. He won AZ with 48% of the vote.

Because the GOP nominated its maverick as the standard bearer, issues like amnesty, cap and trade legislation to address global warming, and drilling in ANWAR and offshore are off the table in the national election. Obama and McCain hold similar views. Amnesty will destroy this country with a stroke of a pen and cap and trade will wreck the economy. Some choice.”

Posts of the day - Best of the Web

McCain supporters.......


Headline: "McCain would like to see a man on Mars"

And I'd like to see a Conservative in The White House!

(He'll probably get his wish first.)

14 posted on Fri Jun 6 06:57:25 2008 by PBRSTREETGANG

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The Reason I’m paying $4.39 a gallon for gas....YOU!

I’ve offended a lot of people over the last 15 years preaching to stop buying Chinese and other 3rd world ‘merchandise’ instead of USA made products.

I kept saying, one of these days your ‘free trade global economy’ is going to come back to bite you. It now has it’s teeth sunk deep in our collective posterior, and still we don’t get it.

Let’s take one example. The Dollar Store. I shop at the $ store. Most of their products are foreign, mostly Chinese. Even the food. If it says ‘distributed by’ a US company, but doesn’t state where it’s grown, it’s likely Chinese, Mexican or some place you never heard of. I talk to people when I’m there. They mostly believe we have to label foods where they’re grown. Nope!

Not to pick on the $ Store, I find many USA made products there. And some yummy cookies from Canada! At least Canada is on some kind of economic/social par with us and has some safety concerns and regulation. Here, like most shoppers , I may be guilty by ignorance. If they’re selling 3 dozen cookies for a dollar, they’re likely produced by illegal alien labor. Canada, like us, suffers from greed and open borders as well.

How about that beautiful hand crafted picture frame, made by Chinese slave labor that costs...ONE dollar? Now how much do you think that Chinaman got paid? Pennies, if he’s lucky. But you go ahead, keep buying it! This country has sanctioned slave labor before. Not long ago, that Chinaman was likely in a rural, safe home, working his land, feeding his family with some dignity. Now he’s in a sweat shop making a picture frame for your kid’s photo who gets more in allowance than he does in wages in a crowded, dangerous sweat shop.

Just be aware of this when you buy that pack of 5 plastic spatulas for a buck from China.
China is becoming the biggest consumer of gasoline and the biggest emitter of CO2.
Know why? It’s not because their slave labor is driving automobiles. It’s to fuel their factory sweat shops, buy nice cars for their communist bosses, because we keep buying their cheap imports. So how much is that dollar figurine you didn’t need in the first place really costing you? The next time you fill up, on your way home from Wal Mart, etc., don’t bitch at the gas station attendant. Look in the mirror.


Mar. 2007 - China - The country's use of gasoline reached 52.47 million tonnes last year, an 8.4% year-on-year growth, after the year's car sales jumped 27% to hit 7.2 million. The forecast for this year's growth is 18%.........
China and its Role in the Oil Price Rise
[snip] China has become forced to import three million barrels a day, making it the world's second biggest oil-consuming country, after the US and ahead of its neighbor Japan.......This was reflected on the world price level, which remained at around $20-25 a barrel until 2003, when a big and perceptible increase in China's consumption began.

States doing the Job the Feds won't.....

YES, WE CAN!!!!

MISSOURI!!



OKLAHOMA!!!

Hispanics Moving Out Of Oklahoma Before New Law Takes Effect ...

Aug 22, 2007 ... They came by the thousands and now they're leaving that way, too. ... Most illegal immigrants are ending up in either Kansas or Arkansas. ...


ARIZONA!!!

Illegal immigrants leaving Arizona - USATODAY.com
Illegal immigrants in Arizona, frustrated with a flagging economy and tough new legislation cracking down on their employers, are returning to their home ...
www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-12-22-immigration-leaving_N.htm