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06/29/07  Yesterday, in the Senate, the great McCain/ Kennedy/ Bush Amnesty "compromise" plan of 2007 for illegal wetbacks and terrorists of various heritages came to a halt.  Finally.  Mr. President, now go and enforce the law.  Shut down the circus on the border.  And I want to see some employers go straight to jail.  You have the tools to do this, and have had all along.  Now just go do it and quit protecting your corporate, Democrat and RINO friends.  JES, American Nationalist Conservative.  

09/28/06  The difficulty with a Senate almost evenly divided along partisan lines, in the more subtle sense of Liberal v. Conservative, is the power of individual Senators, drunk with self-importance, to disrupt what is in the interest of the polity, especially dangerous in times of war.  Dressed in apparently principled, but frequently self-serving rhetoric, and perhaps even believing it themselves, certain Senators seem not to be able to resist the temptation to stand on the tracks of history.  So it is that a Senate, forced by a similarly puffed up Supreme Court decision to extend beyond recognition Article 3 of the Geneva Convention, is charged with the duty of fabricating a band-aid fix to the Court's transgression.  Enter John McCain, and two wannabes, offering specious arguments irrelevant and counter-productive to the issue at hand.  The issue at hand is the ability of American intelligence operatives to question and obtain information from captured terrorists without themselves being subject to prosecution by either the so-called International Court or Senator Dick Durbin and friends.

Finally, after weeks of political grandstanding, and an explanation by the President that in the face of an unsatisfactory product from Congress the relevant programs would grind to a halt, the Senate caves, having been thrown a couple of fish to ease the hurt.  Operations at Guantanamo will continue in a fashion already much too comfortable for the guests.  JES

05/19/06   Let me get this straight.   Social Security is going broke.   So the U.S. Senate, lead by that "Conservative" pretender Senator John McCain, R-AZ, votes to extend benefits to illegals on the pretext that they have a "right" to their past "contributions", illegally obtained?   I am going to go nuts!!!!!!!  Am, I the only one going crazy, or what?  JES

02/07/06  The last time Senator John McCain promised "reform" we wound up with the Incumbency Protection Act of 2004, aka campaign reform.  Now, in an ill-disguised preparation for a run at the 2008 GOP Presidential nomination, he apparently has taken on the mission of lobbying reform.  The Senator is not highly regarded by this web site as a reliable team player, not an unusual assessment among Conservatives, or more generally astray GOPers, which is to say he tends to be a loose cannon most frequently in his own behalf.

Selection of the issue of lobbying reform is easy; in the current climate everyone is for it like motherhood and apple pie.  Politicians of all strips see advantage in attempting to persuade the public of their good intentions on the subject, and the dangers of not so doing.  So there is a bipartisan motive for cooperation, unless, of course, one can be persuaded that all the hands in one party are pure, and the hands of the other party are all sullied.  The truth of what actually happened in alleged conversations between Senators McCain and Obama are unclear, and the opportunities for deceit by either or both are abundant.  It is possible that the Arizona Senator's argument with his colleague is honorable, but given his record, how are we to know?  There is the further suspicion of contrived contrition in an attempt at redemption with his own party colleagues.  For the text of Senator McCain's letter to Senator Obama dated 02/06, go to http://mccain.senate.gov.  Stay tuned.  JES

01/24/06  The 2008 Presidential election cycle has begun, and watch the press begin to push John McCain for the Republican slot.   It is a kiss-ass relationship.  JES

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