Bowe Bergdahl free as Obama administration attacked by GOP for freeing ‘hard core terrorists’
Many in Washington on unahppy and concerned over the prisoner sway for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl Saturday. Bergdahl has been held by Taliban for five years and was freed in exchange for five militants from the US More...
John McCain endorses David Jolly for Florida House seat
Florida Special Election: Republican congressional candidate David Jolly won the endorsement of US Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., on Wednesday. Caricature by donkeyhotey, donkeyhotey.wordpress.com Jolly is facing More...
Arizona GOP ‘censure’ Senator John McCain, needs ‘to be held accountable’
The media has been quiet and Senator John McCain has not been commenting on the Maricopa County Republican Party’s decision to “censure” him for what GOP activists deemed his “long and terrible record of More...
John McCain disputes claim by IHS Jane’s to CFR audience
Earlier this week, the defense consultants at IHS Jane’s noted that the majority of Syrian rebels are jihadis. As was reported in the UK Telegraph, Jane’s says the approximately 100,000 rebels are splintered More...
John McCain claims Immigration bill to transform border into ‘Berlin Wall’
Arizona Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said Tuesday that the Senate should include an amendment for increased border security in its new bipartisan immigration reform bill, making comparisons to the Berlin Wall. In More...
Louis Gohmert critical of John McCain on Benghazi and now his visit to Syria
Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert pointing to a Republican in the Benghazi scandal, targeting John McCain and his desire to change regimes in Libya. Mediaite details how conservative radio host Frank Gaffney asked More...
Senate votes to overcome a GOP filibuster, gun legislation debate to commence
A gun control bill that no one has read as of today will come to the Senate floor after a vote of 68-31, allowing Senate Democrats, with the 16 Republicans who voted with them, to get and exceed the 60 votes More...
Neocons Losing Hold Over Republican Foreign Policy
photo donkeyhotey Nearly ten years after seizing control of Republican foreign policy, neoconservatives and other hawks appear to be losing it. That is at least the tentative conclusion of a number of political More...
Joe Scarborough echoes my political transformation
I enjoyed Joe Scarborough’s books and respect his comments, especially his voice on MSNBC, but I never thought I’d find or hear my story through a former member of Congress. While wandering around Target More...
Another horrible piece of legislation from John McCain
We all remember McCain-Feingold and McCain-Kennedy, now Senator McCain with his fellow neocon Joe Lieberman have introduced “The Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010”. More...
President Obama and his inconsistencies with the Patriot Act
Yes it’s been a couple of weeks since the 1 year extension of the Patriot Act occurred in which the Congress overwhelmingly voted in favor of it and Mr. Obama signed off on it. Didn’t know this happened? You More...
Where President Obama is failing
Let’s be clear that this list would look nearly identical if we were reflecting on the McCain administration. The differences between those two candidates were nominal in many ways and America would likely More...