The Saudi's gave $1 million to the McCain Institute and you know how mush John McCain loves the Saudis.
McCain is facing questions about his ties to an eponymous nonprofit, after Bloomberg reported the Saudi government had donated $1 million to the nonprofit’s fundraising arm...
The McCain Institute for International Leadership was created in December 2012, with an $8.7 million donation in unused funds from McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign...
McCain regularly attends events and fundraisers hosted by the McCain Institute. His wife, Cindy McCain, is on the institute’s Human Trafficking Advisory Council, working with the nonprofit to raise awareness for her main policy issue. Many of McCain’s longtime political allies sit on the nonprofit’s board of directors. Tax records show a longtime McCain fundraiser, Carly Eudy, maintains the McCain Institute Foundation’s financial records.
In the video embedded below, McCain again claims he has nothing to do with the McCain Institute and they only use his name.
McCain's claim is about as credible as Hillary's Clinton Foundation claims.
Government documents obtained by a top "Inside the Beltway" watchdog group and released on Thursday reveal thatInternal Revenue Service's Lois Lerner
was strongly urged by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, and Sen. John
McCain, R-Arizona, her assistance in attacking certain non-profit
political groups. The organizations they selected for targeting by
Lerner were part of the Tea Party and conservative movements.
Courtesy of US Senate Photo Gallery
The group that investigates and exposes government corruption, Judicial Watch,
released newly acquired IRS documents, including an email from Ms.
Lerner in February 2012 requesting she “put together some training
points to help them [IRS staffers] understand the potential pitfalls of
revealing too much information to Congress."
One of the released documents is a Lerner email from 2013 that she
was willing to 'take a bullet" for Obama and his White House for the IRS
scandal and that she understood why the targeting of Tea Party
organizations and other conservative groups may raise questions
regarding what did President Obama know and when did he know it. Obama
had told the press that he first read about the IRS targeting of
conservatives in the newspaper.
According to a Judicial Watch officials,
"A May 1, 2013, email exchange between Lois Lerner and other top IRS
staffers revealed that 11 days prior to Lerner’s admission that the IRS
had “inappropriately” targeted conservative groups, she met with select
top staffers from the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee in a
“marathon” meeting to discuss concerns raised by both Sen. Carl Levin
(D-MI) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) that the IRS was not reining in political advocacy groups in response to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Senator McCain had been the chief sponsor of the McCain-Feingold Act and called the Citizens United decision, which overturned portions of the Act, one of the 'worst decisions I have ever seen.'" Read it all here...
Less than a week after allegations of fraud prompted election officials in Afghanistan to delay the results of that country's presidential runoff election, Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called Friday for the two remaining Afghan candidates to allow the results to be audited. "There's ample evidence of fraud," said Graham, according to the Wall Street Journal. "There needs to be an audit that is recognized by the Afghan people as legitimate and by the international community as legitimate." A failure to end the standoff, McCain warned, "could put not only the political environment in Afghanistan into a crisis, but also weaken American support for the continued process" of helping Afghanistan as the country recovers from more than a decade of war.
“We should tell these countries in Central America that
no more aid, no more assistance, no nothing until they stop this from
happening,” Arizona Sen. John McCain told KFYI radio in Phoenix…
“And tell our friends in Mexico to secure their border, their
Southern border as well as their Northern border, and no comprehensive
immigration reform until we get our border secured. It’s unacceptable,”
McCain continued. “It’s a human tragedy, and when they encourage people
to come up through Mexico … they are subjecting these young people, and
primarily young women to the worst kinds of abuse.”
McCain said he had heard from Customs and Border Protection that
there were signs in recent months that the unaccompanied migrant crisis
was approaching, but he did not know whether President Barack Obama had
been briefed.
“He sure as heck should have, should have been informed and he should
have known that this is coming,” McCain said. “It is one of the most,
frankly, disappointing things for me personally because as you know,
I’ve been for comprehensive immigration reform. You can’t do that unless
you have secure borders.”
Arizona Senator John McCain confronts a very challenging primary landscape should he decide to run for a sixth term in 2016.
Although his job approval-disapproval rating among Republicans statewide is evenly split, and his image is slightly underwater (47.7% favorable, 51.4% unfavorable), it is the fact that
Republican Primary voters in Arizona are over twice as likely to elect “a newperson” (64.2%) than they are to re-elect McCain (29.3%) that spells trouble.
At the annual mandatory meeting of the Maricopa County
Republican Committee Saturday, a resolution censuring Sen. John McCain
was overwhelming passed by the elected precinct committeemen (PCs)
representing the county seat of Phoenix, and including numerous
surrounding cities. See this complete listing of all the cities and map for a full picture of the size of the area encompassed by Maricopa County.
Committeemen representing the Republican voters are elected on
primary ballots from the precincts within state legislative districts…
…The vote to censure McCain passed overwhelmingly — 1,150 in support with only 351 opposed. Read the complete Resolution to Censure John McCain, including a list of grievances.
Of course this was when John McCain was running for re-election. Now he his giving speeches attacking people who are actively trying to prevent Obamacare from standing.
Why doesn't John McCain just come out as a democrat?
McCain: Obamacare was a "major subject of the campaign," adds he campaigned against it all over the country. "Well, the people spoke."
— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) September 25, 2013
McCain: "Elections have consequences … the majority of Americans supported the President of the United States."
— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) September 25, 2013
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) hinted that he may be serving
his last term in office, admitting that he does not want to become “one
of these old guys that should’ve shoved off.”
McCain, a 27-year veteran of the senate and former presidential
candidate, made the admission while speaking about his relationship with
President Obama.
“The president and I, he’s in his last term, I’m probably in mine,
the relationship we have had over the past three years is quite good,”
McCain told The Wrap in an interview. “Quite good.”
So Ahmadinejad wants to be first Iranian in space - wasn't he just there last week? "Iran launches monkey into space" news.yahoo.com/iran-launches-…
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) February 4, 2013
If President Obama had been serious about bringing a new atmosphere to Washington, he would have voted for John McCain in 2008. Obama loves to blame Republicans and the Tea Party, but the truth is he has been the most polarizing President ever. After passing his first budget and the Stimulus only a couple of token Republican votes, Obama doubled-down and passed the most expansive and expensive piece of legislation in decades, Obamacare, without any Republican support. The political water in Washington has been poisoned ever since. It has been almost three years since the Senate passed a budget. President Obama praising John McCain for bipartisanship is lot like a hooker praising a nun for chastity.
BURLINGTON, Vt. — President Obama offered some qualified praise for his 2008 GOP rival John McCain, saying that the Arizona senator and onetime presidential rival understood how to work across the aisle and compromise — unlike this year’s Republican contenders.
“In 2008, I was running against a candidate who believed in climate change, believed in immigration reform, believed in reducing deficits in a balanced way,” Obama told about 100 supporters at a fundraiser in Burlington, Vt.
“We had some profound disagreements, but the Republican candidate for president understood that some of these challenges required compromise and bipartisanship.” Obama said.
Senator John McCain has shown his true form. He was confronted by a Tea party member at a Town Hall and offered the opportunity to apologize for calling Tea Party members "Hobbits." McCain refused.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Monday refused to apologize for calling Tea Party lawmakers “hobbits” in a speech last month.
“I am sorry if it was misunderstood. I am not sorry for what I said,” McCain said at a town hall meeting in Gilbert, Ariz.
Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator John McCain are calling for NATO to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi.
(Telegraph) — Senior western leaders called for Nato to adopt an assassination policy against Col Muammar Gaddafi to salvage the bombing campaign in Libya from a descent into stalemate.
The calls came as Col Gaddafi was reported to have strengthened his grip on power by repatriating billions of dollars in overseas assets that should have been frozen by UN sanctions.
On Sunday, there was growing pressure on Coalition forces to directly target Col Gaddafi with military strikes.
Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican member of the Senate Armed Services committee, said that the quickest way to end the emerging stalemate was to “cut the head of the snake off”. He said: “The people around Gaddafi need to wake up every day wondering, ‘Will this be my last?’
Senator John McCain, who visited Libya at the weekend, also said that the Libyan dictator should be targeted...
A NATO airstrike flattened a building inside Muammar Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziyah compound early Monday, in what a press official from Gaddafi’s government said was an attempt on the Libyan leader’s life.
