Tag: John McCain

• The Republican unraveling

  The Senate’s rejection of a “skinny repeal” of the Affordable Care Act last night was a bit of a surprise, but certainly symptomatic of a Republican Party in free fall. It was really a roll of the dice and could have easily gone either way but either way would have been bad for Republicans. Senator…

  Mark

  July 28, 2017

  Politics 2017

  17th Amendment, Anthony Scaramucci, Chuck Grassley, Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, John McCain, Lindsay Graham, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Reince Priebus, Republican Party, Robert Mueller, Steve Bannon, Susan Collins, Trump supporters

• Constitutional crisis dead ahead

  Like many of you I woke up November 9 feeling nauseous, upset and wanting desperately to hide under my pillow. Actually, I didn’t sleep on election night. I tried but it just didn’t work. My heart was racing like a freight train. I didn’t have a stethoscope, but I’m sure my heart was skipping beats.…

  Mark

  November 24, 2016

  Politics 2016

  Constitutional crises, Donald Trump, John McCain, Republicans, Richard Nixon, Sinclair Lewis

• It looks like the Republican Party looks might Bull Moose itself again

  And so it has begun. The conventional wisdom was that following Donald Trump’s defeat November 9 along with the likely loss of the Senate and possibly the House, the Republican Party would thrash and moan as they tried and likely failed to pick up the pieces and become an effective political party again. If you…

  Mark

  October 11, 2016

  Politics 2016

  Bull Moose Party, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Donald Trump supporters, Election 1912, Election 2016, Election 2020, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Paul Ryan, Progressive Party, Republican Party, Tea Party, Teddy Roosevelt, Tip O’Neill, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson

• Obama demonstrates he is the real grown up in the room

  Our national government currently resembles a three-ring circus. Between carbon copy Republicans running for president on a platform of mostly hot air, pabulum from the so-called leaders of the U.S. congress and the weird rulings and opinions from our Supreme Court justices, a whole lot of nothing meaningful is happening in Washington at your expense.…

  Mark

  July 15, 2015

  Politics 2015

  Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iran accord, John Kerry, John McCain, Republicans

• Slick

  I was one of those people watching the Obama infomercial last night. I didn’t actually watch it live. I was buying a rug at the time. After it was hauled home and laid out over our new wood floor, I took the time to watch it online. Man, that was one slick infomercial! Frankly though,…

  Mark

  October 30, 2008

  Politics 2008

  Barack Obama, Election 2008, John McCain

• The first debate

  My thanks to my friend Renee, who invited a whole bunch of us over to her house last night to watch the first presidential debate between Senators McCain and Obama. It is more fun to watch debates in the presence of other likeminded people. If you are a political junkie like me, the first presidential…

  Mark

  September 27, 2008

  Politics 2008

  Barack Obama, Election 2008, John McCain

• Unsolicited advice for Senator Obama

  I have to hand it with Republicans. When it comes to a campaign playbook, they stick with what works. An election won is an election won, whether won fairly or through foul tactics. The last leg of the 2008 presidential campaign is shaping up to look a lot like the 2004 campaign, which is heavy…

  Mark

  September 12, 2008

  Politics 2008

  Barack Obama, Election 2008, John McCain, Sarah Palin

• Lipstick on a pig

  What do you do when your party seems to be going down like the S.S. Titanic? Desperate times call for desperate measures. For the Republican Party apparently desperate times does not mean something pragmatic like actually changing the party’s orthodoxy into something that might look mainstream. John McCain’s hope for winning this election thus depends…

  Mark

  September 4, 2008

  Politics 2008

  John McCain, Republicans, Sarah Palin

• McCain’s health care non-solution

  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain is in the news today. He unveiled his comprehensive health care proposal: a $2500 tax credit for individuals and a $5000 tax credit for families to allow them to buy the health insurance plan of their choice. He believes that with such an approach that competition and the free…

  Mark

  April 29, 2008

  Politics 2008

  Health Care, John McCain, Republicans

• Will John McCain run for president?

  If I were a Republican I’d be getting damned worried right now. Bush’s reelection, considered a sure thing just a month or two ago (for reasons I don’t understand) now looks dubious at best. His poll numbers haven’t completely collapsed, with his approval ratings hovering at or just above 50%. Looking at polling reports though,…

  Mark

  October 29, 2003

  Politics 2003

  Election 2004, John McCain