Come on Arizona, when is enough, enough?

Sen. John McCain, always the political maverick, recently bucked his own Republican Party by refusing to defend President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation and even suggesting the matter was reaching epic proportions.

"I think it is reaching the point it is a Watergate size and scale," he declared last month during an event at his policy nonprofit, the International Republican Institute.

The remarks reverberated around the world given McCain's status as a war hero and former GOP presidential nominee who has long railed against Vladimir Putin.
Davis and Manafort, who were already doing pro-Putin work against American national interests, were using potential meetings with McCain.
—John Weaver, former top McCain adviser


There was just one fact missing from his narrative: Exactly one decade earlier it was McCain's own presidential campaign that was being roiled by concerns of possible Russian influence in his own inner circle.

In fact, McCain's drama involved the same foreign lobbyist Paul Manafort; one of the same Russian oligarchs, Oleg Deripaska; the same Russian diplomat, Sergey Kislyak, and the same wily Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, that now dominate the current Trump controversy.
Before there was Trump, there were concerns about some of the same people being around McCain about 10 years ago...
—U.S. official



The only difference?

The FBI has said that there is no evidence to date that Trump ever met with a Russian figure banned from the United States.

McCain actually met twice with Deripaska, a Russian businessman and Putin ally whose visa was blocked by the United States amidst intelligence community concerns about his ties to Moscow. The meetings were arranged by Manafort and his lobbying firm partner Rick Davis, who later would become McCain's campaign manager, according to interviews and documents. Deripaska, a metals magnet,  is president of United Company RUSAL,  and is considered to be one of the richest men in the world worth an estimated at $5.1 billion, according to Forbes.

http://circa.com/politics/accountability/atom/the-russia-influence-controversy-that-john-mccain-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about

Thanks Solar I needed a good out loud laugh this morning.....McStains.

                      

Quote from: Bronx on June 28, 2017, 07:17:55 AM
Thanks Solar I needed a good out loud laugh this morning.....McStains.

                      

Sorry for the mental image of "If it Sticks Johnnie".... But that's how I see this worn out piece of underwear, as a shit stain.

....hmmm...McStain...Clinton Foundation...uranium...Putin...Soros...Clinton.  He's scum that's blocking the drainage hole in the cesspool.

Quote from: Ms.Independence on June 28, 2017, 08:49:22 AM
....hmmm...McStain...Clinton Foundation...uranium...Putin...Soros...Clinton.  He's scum that's blocking the drainage hole in the cesspool.

He's the clog in the toilet.  How sad is that?

Traitor!

Quote from: Solar on June 28, 2017, 09:34:09 AM

He's the clog in the toilet.  How sad is that?

Sad, but your description is spot on!    

Quote from: Solar on June 28, 2017, 09:34:09 AM

He's the clog in the toilet.  How sad is that?

Take him down, along with Clintons, Obamas & staff - would you call that a "Royal Flush?"

Quote from: Hoofer on June 28, 2017, 03:54:19 PM
Take him down, along with Clintons, Obamas & staff - would you call that a "Royal Flush?"

More like a Troop of Jokers. Remember, these Marxists never play with a full deck.
I use Troop, because that's what you call a group of monkies.

On a side note, I always thought Congress should have been named after a flock of crows, (Murder), since that's what they have done to the country, but Congress also has another meaning, one I wasn't aware of, and now I understand why.
It's literally the act of screwing.

Congress: The act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur.

I can't help but think they actually saw it as a screwing of the people and aptly chose the moniker as noted below.

Sense of "meeting of delegates" is first recorded 1670s. Meaning "sexual union" is from 1580s. Used in reference to the national legislative body of the American states since 1775 (though since 1765 in America as a name for proposed bodies).

But I think the truth lies within its antonym.

The opposite of Congress is Progress.

McCain is that guy who, at the end of the party never knows when to say goodnight.