'Maverick' Cancelled

John McCain is not now and has never been, a member of the Maverick party.

Groan.  I understand the political logic, but honestly.

In his defense, McCain has been declared a non-maverick before, so maybe he is simply reaching out to his critics.

As I have said before, I think McCain is a great American, but maybe not so great a candidate.

Comments

[Jack is Back!]

Still the best TV western made.

I thought the movies sucked but Brett and Bart were a true A team before George Peppard and Mr. T.

Poor John, he can't even make a good Gabby Hayes.

[narciso the harpoon]

Words fail, and I see a shark fin in the corner of screen, by the water skies

[jean]

For the life of me I don't understand why people get to D.C. and then can't retire.Look at what Spector,McCain and others do to get reelected.What can compel them to go to such demeaning lengths?

[Captain Hate]

maybe he is simply reaching out to his critics

Only if my back's turned.

[MarkJ]

Who is the tall dark stranger there?
Maverick is the name.
Riding the trail to who knows where
Luck is his companion
Gamblin' is his game.

Smooth as a handle on a gun
Maverick is the name.
Wild as a wind in Oregon
Blowin' up a canyon
Easier to tame.

Riverboat ring your bell!
Fare-the-well Annabelle!
Luck is the lady that he loves the best!

Natchez to New Orleans
Livin' on jacks and queens
Maverick is the legend of the West.

Riverboat ring your bell
Fare-the-well Annabelle!
Luck is the lady that he loves the best!

Natchez to New Orleans
Livin' on jacks and queens
Maverick is the legend of the West.
Maverick is the legend of the West.

[Jane]

For the life of me I don't understand why people get to D.C. and then can't retire.

That's what I say. Sheesh - get the hell out.
Maybe they are just protecting all those benefits they get.

[Rob Crawford]

For the life of me I don't understand why people get to D.C. and then can't retire.

And give up the sycophants? The knowledge that you can ruin peoples' lives with a phone call?

[Clarice]

Maybe there's no place else that pays so well while satisfying neurotic needs for power and attention.

[bio mom]

Time for John McCain to pack it in already. We thank you for your service, now go.

[laura]

Can't we sell him on "it's the honorable thing to do" argument? Surely he could understand that?

[bgates]

I don't understand why people get to DC and then can't be thrown out.

[Mike Myers]

Adios muchacho. You had your day. Now go doze on the porch in the sun and wake up from time to time to tell us how you led the Gang of 14 to steal the coins off dead men's eyes.

On the other hand, I'm not persuaded that your opponents would do a better job, so I'll leave it to the voters of Arizona to decide.

[Extraneus]

Serving the people must be a sweet, sweet gig, Janet.

[Cecil Turner]

Groan.

Coulda stopped right there.

It's frankly amazing this was the best choice on the last ballot. We gotta do something about the process.

[Extraneus]

Haven't heard anything from Steele about closing those open primaries, even after threatening them with a withdrawal of my willingness to donate money.

[MaryAnne]

I thank John McCain for his service to our country and for introducing the American electorate to Sarah Palin. Now it's time for him to leave and take his icky daughter with him.

[narciso the harpoon]

And speaking of clueless, Harry Reid, in jeans no less, taunting Mama Grizzly

[sbw]

Steele is a kindly reminder that tea parties will take aim at whomever is the problem, party is no protection.

For Steele to call racism when incompetence is pointed out is to compound racism with bullsh*t.

[srp]

I think generational change is coming to the GOP's ranks. Kind of like when accommodationist Bob Michel gave way to Newt back in the Nineties. The Cantors, Ryans, etc. are going to be running the congressional party. The governors with good track records during the last few and next few years (we'll see who those people are more clearly in the next couple of years--right now I'm a Daniels fan, but Christy, et al will all get a look) will dominate the presidential party. That puts the tweeners, failures, and other assorted jetsam of the Republican doldrums era, such as Romney and Huckabee, on the bench.

[Sue]

Oh great. The fool in chief has said no nukes, even in self-defense. Go to Drudge if you want the story. And hunker down. There is nothing to deter them now.

[Jane says obamasucks]

Oh great. The fool in chief has said no nukes, even in self-defense.

So we will all be dead by 2012. No chance anyone will wait past then.

[Sue]

Why in hell would you announce it?

For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons, or launched a crippling cyberattack.

[Porchlight]

even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons, or launched a crippling cyberattack.

Wow. I assume that goes for any retaliatory attacks on behalf of our allies too. Wonder what they think of this.

"Allies," what a quaint concept. Seems strange even typing it.

[Bill in AZ]

"Why in hell would you announce it?"

Because he is too Stupid not to.

[Sue]

Porch,

If our "allies" haven't figured out before today that they are on their own, they should now.

[Sue]

Bill,

This is Obama's "smart diplomacy". They are laughing at him as they ready the attacks.

[Porchlight]

If our "allies" haven't figured out before today that they are on their own, they should now.

So true. Well, better they learn now than later.

How awesome is it that we still have 2/3 of this presidency yet to go? And that's if he's a one-termer.

[narciso the harpoon]

I going to start calling him Edward Montoya Jason, because it fits, good lord

[Sue]

It's not like anyone thought he would actually use a nuclear weapon.

I had forgotten that Bush 41 threatened Saddam with a nuclear attack if he used chemical weapons on our soldiers in the Gulf War. Pat Caddell just reminded me on Hannity.

[Old Lurker]

So I guess Israel is truly alone now.

This unilateral announcement probably does odd things to our other alliances as well.

[jean]

I'm waiting on John Boltons response

[Sue]

I wonder if Europe misses the cowboy yet?

[Jane says obamasucks]

He needs to be impeached.

[Clarice]

getting there, Jane..or removal for mental illness.

[MaryAnne]

Obama's arrogance is breathtaking. He has been raised in such a cocoon that he truly believes that he rules the world. He terrifies me.

[narciso the harpoon]

"We had nothing to fear from Obama", You wanna
revise and extend those remarks, John

[jean]

I'm very afraid Ed Koch was right last week when he said Obama would throw Israel under the bus

[Clarice]

Good poster

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y145/gbran/democrata.jpg /img>

It's probably too big, but lie the sorcerer's apprentice, I'm at a lostt.

[Old Lurker]

Can even a President unilaterally unravel all these agreements, understandings and strategies with a press release? Can't imagine why some foreign port would host one of our ships/planes with "maybe" nuclear weapons when they now know we will not use them even for our own defense, so obviously not for theirs. Puts their leaders in untenable positions.

[Old Lurker]

And what about our own troops in tripwire locations (eg Korea)? How could the Pentagon go along with this?

Where's DoT?

[MaryAnne]

I'd like to play poker with Obama because he'd surely show me all of his cards yet still expect to win because he is just so much damn smarter than I am!!! Anyone who fell for this egomaniac should be praying for forgiveness and a complete republican takeover in November.

[Melinda Romanoff]

OL-

Not untenable, just forced into looking for a better deal from the other side.

Don't ask me about the obvious sovreignty questions...

[Melinda Romanoff]

OL-

The Pentagon answers to the Executive Branch. They may advise, but must obey, dependent upon the individual soldier's beliefs, code or otherwise.

[Old Lurker]

Yep, Mel.

[jean]

I really wish I knew how to gird my loins.It sounds like something we should be doing

[Sarah]

Why it is hard to gain a super majority for Republicans:
Republicans never have a perfect candidate--Democrats ALWAYS have the perfect candidate.
Republicans are all too old and should move on--Democrats are the wise old elders.
Republicans are eaten alive by Republicans if the wrong word slips out of their mouth--Democrats speak nothing but the truth. I could go on and on. But if we do not stop eating our own, we will be stuck with left-wing liberal majorities for the rest of our pitiful lives. Focus on replacing liberals. Then work on all those Republicans who are doing us such great harm, sometime in the future. Please.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Jean-

I'm thinking EMP. It's cheap, and a one off job.

(And why I still have a dial phone, the rotary system still exists, partly financed by NORAD. Grab one at your nearest "recycling" service, aka "dump" or GoodWill store. That's why your hard wired phone system carries a "charge"=live current.)

[Dave (in MA)]

I don't understand why people get to DC and then can't be thrown out.

Speaking of throwing out, Michelle let Barry wear his own pants this year, but he still throws like a girl.

[Melinda Romanoff]

I'm off to an annual meeting tomorrow, not at all like the meeting with Manuel Transmission last week.

I recommend the latter.

G'night all.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Oh, and watch this 49 minute video, if you can spare the time for your economic health.

[Ignatz]

Like most things from Barry there is less here than meets the eye.
The new policy doesn't apply to other nuclear powers, non signatories of the non-proliferation treaty or violators of it.

Which pretty much means if Canada launches an all out chem attack we promise not to drop the big one on Ottawa.

[daddy]

First he doesn't recognize that Obama's a Socialist.
Then he doesn't recognize that Palin unleashed is his greatest asset.
Now he doesn't recognize that he's a Maverick.
And tomorrow he'll be not recognizing Biden is an idiot.

McCain doesn't even have 20/100 hindsight, let alone foresight.

[narciso the harpoon]

He's behaving more like Iceman than Maverick , daddy, who is he trying to fool,

[daddy]

Unbelievable,

Just watched a great NCAA Game (wrong team won---Boo), but nonetheless a great, great game. Plus it's opening day Baseball.

So I come downstairs after the final shot clanks off the rim to find the gal's all watching some cooking show and desperate to see which SpongeBob SquarePants Cake wins some bake-off, and some chef now is boo-hooing about some jelly-fish fell off her cake, and my guys are all pins and needles.

Anybody else out there live in a complete Nuthouse?.

[Neo]

Hey .. there is real hop out there ...

AN UNSUSPECTING bargain hunter who snapped up a secondhand suitcase for a song may be carrying around $100,000 stuffed into the lining.

And it appears the owner’s wife is in the doghouse after apparently donating their life savings along with the tired old case and other bric-a-brac, to the Salvo [Salvation Army] store at Beaconsfield, in Melbourne’s outer east.

[Frau Ostermontag]

"fare thee well, Anabelle..."

[narciso the harpoon]

Who was it that said don't bet on Butler

[daddy]

Hey,

I think Porchlight must be just about to pickle because ">http://www.avo.alaska.edu/"> Mt ReDoubt started rumbling and smoking today, and it always seems to go off big whenever a JOMer has a BirthDay.

Oh, and whatta' ripoff. The chick in the purple shirt won the SpongeBob bake-off, but any idiot could plainly see the Dude's cake was way way better. Bummer. The fix was in.

[MarkO]

Is it safe to come out? Did Duke really win? What a game. Butler is really a great team.

No bake shows here.

[matt]

been in meetings and on the road to Vegas all day. Caught the last 5 minutes of the game. It was a classic NCAA tournament this year.

The only answer to a Sponge Bob cake is a blowtorch....sort of a Sponge Bob creme brule' then....and blow torches in the kitchen are always good.

[JM Hanes]

"Sponge Bob creme brule'"

ROTFL!

[Janet]

LUN is an excerpt from an old Lilek's post from 2006 speaking about Ahmadinejad. What leftists are "wishing and hoping" about our enemies, is what we now are.

"They won’t use them. They just want them. The way we all want a big-screen TV, and would keep it in the box once we bought it."

Jean - Love the gird your loins line at 10:29!

[Soylent Red]

"We had nothing to fear from Obama", You wanna revise and extend those remarks, John

I sure hope Obamacare covers massive third degree burns and radiation sickness.

[Jane]

The Steele remarks yesterday are still grating on him. What is it with blacks playing the race card? He's lost my support. (And Capn', if Tiger Woods played the race card I would never watch him again.)

[Jane]

Grating on me, not him.

[peter]

I'm very afraid Ed Koch was right last week when he said Obama would throw Israel under the bus

Has he joined the "I regret I endorsed Obama club?"

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Just watched a great NCAA Game (wrong team won...

Sez you.

[narciso the harpoon]

Ah yes, the wisdom of Ed Koch, one forgets he only looked good in comparison to Dinkins, Obama .5, in the LUN. He was a liberal NY
congressmen, who one had thought he had learned something in the intervening years, apparently not

[narciso the harpoon]

Other wisdom, that pops up on, is "Larry King
Alive" I know she has no shame, she's been reduced to mugging with Jennifer Lopez and Lindsay Lohan, in concentric levels or ordure
in the LUN

[Jane]

So what's the chance that POTUS decides to close down all coal mines in light of the W VA tragedy? Never let a crisis go to waste.

[narciso the harpoon]

I didn't take it that far Jane, but Blankenship, the head of Massey, is one of
the major fighters against AGW garbage

[Janet]

..a little antidote about Tea Parties. I talked with my sister and she can't believe I'm going to "protests"...but she is cheering me on. She said she told her neighbors, and they all said "good for her, tell her we're behind her".
Tea Parties offer a place where a citizen can take an action. Writing letter and emails to Congress doesn't feel like enough. I think there is a real feeling of 'what can we do?' and the Tea Parties at least offer an outlet. The Rep. party has offered no energy or specific action...and there is such a feeling of 'something must be done'.

[Janet]

...IMO Tea Parties will either build momentum and grow...or we are done. Squaredance will be right...there was no will.

[Jane]

Obama's comments after his first pitch yesterday - talk about predictable:

"What breaks your heart on these is, you know, you're down there practicing, I was throwing the punch, throwing strikes, heat. Come out here, the thing slips out of your hand, you know, it's heartbreaking. If I had a whole inning, I'm telling you, I'd clean up."

The only thing missing is blaming it on Bush.

[Jane]

Janet,

If they couldn't break the back of the tea partiers with the whole black cauci - racist thing, they aren't breaking our backs.

We will do nothing but grow.

And I challenge all you JOMers to get out there next Thursday!

[Janet]

LUN the lousy throw excuse article.

[Janet]

This is funny too LUN - His pitch like his election...

1.-He walks about and everybody thinks he's rooting for the home team, that is until he gets on the mound and you find out his favorite team is someone else...
2.-He doesn't have any experience throwing a pitch, but we're gonna put him on the mound anyway..
3.-Everybody in the country thinks he's gonna throw right down the middle and he throws it hard left...
4.-After going hard left, he looks up at the crowd and expects everyone in that stadium to still cheer for him.....

[Captain Hate]

The Steele remarks yesterday are still grating on him. What is it with blacks playing the race card? He's lost my support. (And Capn', if Tiger Woods played the race card I would never watch him again.)

It's to Tiger's credit that he's left that club in the bag, not that he's ever encountered a situation where he'd have to use it...

Steele is such an embarrassment that he's even worse than I thought he'd be, and I've been badmouthing him since Day 1. Not only should he get bounced but so should whoever was responsible for appointing him.

Congrats to Mark for Duke's win. Has Clark Kellogg stopped yacking yet; talk about not letting the action speak for itself. Is there anything stupider in sports than CBS's forcing a schmaltzy song like "One Shining Moment" down our throats as a "tradition"? What an effing joke. The good news: When ESPN takes over the tournament, they'll dump it. The bad news: They'll replace it with something even worse.

[jean]

Because it is the start of the MLB season.The Teaparties are like the field in Field Of Dreams"build it and they will come".People just needed to be told where and when

[Captain Hate]

The only thing missing is blaming it on Bush.

He's so predictable; completely lacking in any ability to laugh at himself or show humility (other than to falsely claim that he's humble; LOL). Even funnier: Claiming to be a White Sox fan and not being able to identify anybody on the roster.

[narciso the harpoon]

Couldn't he have just hid out in Papua, New Guinea for a few months, now Steele is not the only screwup in the RNC, but he is the public face of it

ESPN did come up with Olbermann, case closed

[jean]

CAPTAIN Sporting events is why GOD gave us the mute button

[Janet]

LUN video of a "Big White Sox fan" that can't name one d@#n player. A phony liar about absolutely EVERYTHING!

[Sue]

"What breaks your heart on these is, you know, you're down there practicing, I was throwing the punch, throwing strikes, heat.

LOL. No one that throws like Obama is throwing "heat".

[narciso the harpoon]

I used to think that Dennis was a little too harsh on Chucky Johnson, well I was proven wrong, in the LUN. As well as the follow up by an RNC fellow who feels he was purged from
the party, would that they have that much sense

[Janet]

That sportscaster asking specifics about an Obama claim is perfect. Could just one journalist ask some specific questions like that? Only that recent Fox interview on the health care bill was any good. The free ride this poser is given is sickening.

[Sue]

Yesterday, on Megyn Kelly's show, she had Colmes on to talk about all of the AGs that have filed or joined lawsuits. His response, as usual, was where were all these "right wingers" when Bush was destroying the constitution. Megyn asked him if his defense was if Bush did it so could Obama and he said no, but...yada yada...same answer.

My question to Colmes, and all who use the argument on where were "right wingers" when Bush destroyed the constitution is name me one instance Bush defied the SC? In almost every instance, Bush was dealing with new circumstances, or circumstances that had not yet been ruled on. Each time it went to the SC for a ruling, Bush obeyed the ruling. I certainly don't remember an Andrew Jackson moment. So, why the angst from the left in allowing the SC to rule on whether Obamacare is constitutional?

[narciso the harpoon]

Colmes is a blithering idiot, to think that I felt sorry for the way that Hannity used him as a punching bag. It's too bad the
President didn't do a Jackson moment after
Hamdi or Boumedienne, or even Kelo; a decision
only a King John could love

[Clarice]

Today's good news
Ras at -10 (rolling three days so the BBall and Easter stuff hasn't brned completely thru yet)

and

MSNBC's David Shuster has been suspended from MSNBC "indefinitely" according to a spokesperson. The action was taken this morning by MSNBC president Phil Griffin after it was revealed that Shuster had taken part in a pilot for CNN. Shuster's MSNBC contract expires in December. Over the weekend, an MSNBC executive told TVNewser's Gail Shister, anything less than a suspension "sends a message from management that this is OK."

Now for Matthews and Olbermann

[narciso the harpoon]

will they be promoting David Brooks to that slot, it's interesting what gets you fired at that network, not an abusive disregard of the
facts, that's grounds for a promotion

[Jane]

So, why the angst from the left in allowing the SC to rule on whether Obamacare is constitutional?

Because every last one of them knows they are treading on thin ice. Their own power is obviously more important to them than the silly constitution.

[narciso the harpoon]

None of this, should come as a surprise, I guess in the LUN

[Sue]

Jane,

True. But why can't one single person ask them to name the instances that Bush destroyed the constitution instead of just letting their talking points go by as if true. Anyone who posts here at JOM (well, with the exception of one or two) could do a better job of asking follow up questions than even the usually tough Megyn Kelly.

[Jane]

I agree Sue. WE need to take over. I'm off to the radio station to do just that!

[matt]

Woke up this morning to Obama's announcement on nuclear policy. If there is anything scary he has done, this is it. He has taken 60 years of policy and thrown it out the window.My guess is that it is going to get a lot of people killed. Sorry to be a whore, but LUN. This may be his worst decision yet.

[Rob Crawford]

This may be his worst decision yet.

Nah. His worst decision was deciding to run for president.

[Ignatz]

--This may be his worst decision yet.--

Matt, as i read it the policy doesn't apply to nuclear powers, non signatoies of the non proliferation treaty or signatories who flaunt it. That really doesn't leave many nations it would apply to does it? Seems to me its kind of like his drill baby drill policy and/or Oakland; there's no there there. Just as important it is easily reversed by the next pres.
What I find more troubling about it is his pledge to not develop any new nukes. Our existing arsenal is deteriorating and if this clown isn't tossed out in 2012 that's a lot of years for the next sensible president to fix a failing deterrant because that part of the policy is not so easily reversed.

[matt]

remember Ignatz;

The Dems are the experts of the camel's nose tactic. As the English say, he's too clever by half.

[Danube of Thought]

Some lineup Duke has. A hulking East European thug and a few guys who look like Obergruppenfuhrers from central casting.

[Extraneus]

Any time a liberal claims to care about the constitution, place your bet that it's b.s.