I’ve noticed, on too many occasions, some Dems look to John McCain as a left-leaning moderate who’ll stand with Dems on some of the biggest political fights. It’s a myth. Consider McCain’s efforts on behalf of John Bolton, Bush’s nominee to be U.N. ambassador.<\/p>\n
First, take a look at the context, including the fact that McCain’s Republican colleagues are drifting further away from Bolton. Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio), for example, has written to his fellow senators to insist they vote against<\/a> Bolton’s nomination: “In these dangerous times, we cannot afford to put at risk our nation’s ability to successfully wage and win the war on terror with a controversial and ineffective ambassador <\/p>\n The opposition is having an effect. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), who effectively ran a campaign based on the notion that he’d do Bush’s bidding, announced yesterday<\/a> that he’s inclined to join Dems and vote against Bolton’s nomination when it comes to the floor.<\/p>\n And then there’s the senior senator from Arizona<\/a>.<\/p>\n Among Mr. Bolton’s supporters, Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, was among those who urged the Senate to cast aside the Democratic objections and vote on Thursday in favor of the nomination. “Elections have consequences,” Mr. McCain said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yes, for McCain, the fact that Bush won the narrowest re-election of any incumbent in over a century entitles him to pick an abusive<\/a>, ineffectual<\/a>, corrupt<\/a>, and incompetent<\/a> official to be a diplomat despite not having any sense of diplomacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Indeed, McCain’s argument is eerily similar to Bush’s “accountability moment<\/a>” approach. Those who win elections, no matter how narrow the margin, have won support for every decision he or she makes, no matter how misguided.<\/p>\n For McCain, it’s not that Bush has chosen the right man for the job, or that Bolton would serve the United States well, the point to remember is that “elections have consequences.” If the president wants to send a misanthrope to the United Nations who doesn’t believe the institution should even exist<\/a>, why should the Senate stand in his way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve noticed, on too many occasions, some Dems look to John McCain as a left-leaning moderate who’ll stand with Dems on some of the biggest political fights. It’s a myth. Consider McCain’s efforts on behalf of John Bolton, Bush’s nominee to be U.N. ambassador. First, take a look at the context, including the fact that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}