Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), whose thumbs-down famously killed the GOP’s Obamacare repeal effort, may have ensured the party’s historic tax cuts will pass the Senate this week. The maverick senator had been considered one of the Republicans most likely to defect on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. He was…
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Arizona’s Senator Jeff Flake Abruptly Announces He Will Not Run for Re-Election in 2018
Senator Jeff Flake suddenly announced Tuesday he will not run for re-election in 2018. CBS News reports: Sen. Jeff Flake abruptly announced Tuesday that will not run for re-election after all in the 2018 midterm elections, leave the Senate when his term ends in January 2019 and delivered a blistering…
Read MoreCommentary: Senator McCain and President Bush – ‘America’s Last’ Patriotism
In his last official letter as America’s president, George Washington warned against “foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues” that he believed were “inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. In this sense it is that your union ought to be considered as a…
Read MoreJohn McCain, of All People, Blasts at Nationalism
You’d think Sen. John McCain, who in part platformed his North Vietnam prisoner-of-war status into a long-running and lucrative political career, would understand better than the average bear the importance of an America First, Other Countries Second mentality – you know, the kind ushered in nationwide by President Donald Trump.…
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