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“There may be more ‘wacko birds’ in the Senate than suspected”
In an impassioned speech, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) skillfully upended John McCain as the two clashed on the Senate floor Thursday morning. Cruz was a standout as he readily embraced the “wacko bird” epithet McCain hurled at him, Rand Paul and other conservatives earlier this year.
“The senior senator from AZ has impugned the Republicans by claiming repeatedly that it is only a minority of Republicans wh...
The nameless“my colleague from Florida” being accused of impeding senate business is none other than McCain’s “Gang of Eight” amnesty loyalist, Marco Rubio. Listen as the usually mild mannered McCain*repeatedly hammers ”my colleague from Florida.”
Border states not Washington bureaucrats should certify when the border is secure.
A single political appointee should not be entrusted with the job of certifying border security for the United States, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne told Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake in this May 20, 2013 letter.
Horne also issued this follow-up statement on Tuesday expressing his concerns regarding the partisan Janet Napolitano being the sole authority to certify border security:
Duck, dodge and obfuscationbecome hallmarks of AZ’s junior senator
Chris Chmielenski writing for NumbersUSA exposes AZ Sen. Jeff Flake’s exaggerations during questioning by Sens. Jeff Sessions and John Cornyn. The back story and exact quotes are riveting.
Flake also stretched the facts when describing the makeup of the Southern Border Security Commission — which comes complete with a $2 billion authorization — saying it will be made up of “border governors, local ranchers,...
Conservative columnist Thomas Sowell is a favorite for a reason. His brilliant mind clarifies and distills issues that have been analyzed and debated ad infinitum. Here’s Sowell’s take on “Comprehensive” immigration reform, which he argues “serves the interests of politicians who like to be on both sides of a controversial issue, and it serves the interests of those foreigners who want to game the system in the United States, at the expense of the American pe...
844 page amnesty bill: “Being stampeded without enough scrutiny”
Plain spoken conservative Congressman Steve King is, without a doubt, the man many Arizonans would eagerly take in trade for our two double-talking, Democrat-colluding ‘Gang of 8‘ U.S. Senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake.
Scandals, Benghazi, IRS scrutiny, phone taps = “I” word
MyWay News reports the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news. When an agency clearly favorable to the Obama administration is under siege by the very regime they helped put in place, the impact of now seei...
Anchor babies are a fact of life in the world of illegal immigration. Birthright Citizenship is the costly, automatic granting of citizenship to children born within a nation’s borders or territories. The United States and Canada are the world’s only industrialized nations still offering such an extravagant gift to both tourists and illegal aliens.
Under current practice, these children are U.S. citizens at birth, simply because they were born on American soil. They are called “anchor ...
This is a simplified version of the facts from Matthew Boyle at Breitbart.
Read his entire report titled, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake Join Dems to Kill Border Security Amendment here.
An amendment submitted by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley requiring the security of our nation’s borders before granting amnesty to at least 25 million illegal aliens, has been voted down by the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 6 -12 vote. Every single Democrat on the Committee voted against the amendment — no...
Jeff Flake, when given clear choices, sides with far left
What a surprise! The Soros-backed “Media Matters” is running interference for the McCain/Flake Amnesty Gang.
Media Matters (MM), a reliable arm of the Obama regime, with far reaching tentacles in every aspect of the left-wing MSM, goes to the mat attempting to undercut a new study by the conservative policy group Heritage Foundation which details the enormous costs — $6.3 trillion — associated with the implementation of...
Even when Flake inadvertently votes the right way, he backtracks when confronted
The latest Public Policy Polling survey does not bode well for Arizona’s junior senator Jeff Flake. In fact, after just 3 months in office Flake has already become one of the most unpopular senators in the country. We’d understand if Flake lost favor over his stance on granting amnesty to the at least 25 million illegal aliens who have invaded our country, but that’s not the reason for his decline.
During the 2008 presidential race the common refrain among frustrated Republicans was, “Why is John McCain campaigning for Barack Obama?” McCain put Obama’s middle name “Hussein” off limits, although Obama proudly used it during his swearing-in ceremony. The inarticulate McCain even told his own supporters that Obama is “a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared as president of the United States.”
Discouraged Republicans have had to acknowledge that McCain of...
Once again the brilliant Thomas Sowell cuts to the chase. This time he weighs in on granting legal status to illegal aliens. Is it any wonder the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) never runs his columns on what used to be the op-ed page?
Fortunately, Human Events, which bills itself as featuring “powerful conservative voices,” is not so constrained. Do yourself a favor. Read Sowell’s commentary Immigration Sophistry.
Numbers USA features a compilation of quotes from noted conservatives who exemplify the backlash against the amnesty bill introduced this week by the Gang of 8 — two of whom, John McCain and Jeff Flake — claim to represent Arizonan citizens. Republican Senators hold the key to whether this amnesty of millions of illegals passes or fails. And the conservative opinion media that tend to matter most to them are showing increasing disdain for the bill.
Speaking at the start of today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on granting amnesty to millions here in the U. S. illegally, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) noted that exactly 30 years ago — April, 19, 1983 — the same committee met to consider similar immigration legislation that claimed to bolster border security and reunite separated families.
“Now 30 years have passed, and we’re saying the same thing, facing the same problems,” Grassley said. “We’re proposing the same re...
Opportunist Flake casts unusual vote upsetting his media friends
This morning’s editorial in the Arizona Republic, Senators take cowardly exit, gives a scathing evaluation of Arizona’s junior senator. The rage fairly jumps off the page as it focuses on Jeff Flake, opining his “nay” vote on universal background checks was “extremely dismaying” while huffing “this was not a proud day for Arizona’s new senator.” It blames NRA Executive VP Wayne LaPierre for the votes they des...
Obama’s Second Amendment restrictions supported by AZ Senators
The famous quotation, “Et tu Brute?” originated in Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. The translation “and you Brutus?” relates to Caesar’s recognition of Brutus’ betrayal, as he literally and figuratively stabbed him in the back. The term is widely used to signify the utmost treachery.
The Ides of March commemorates March 15, 44 BC, the day Caesar was attacked by a group of Roman senators, and ult...
More good people coming to do the work Americans refuse to do
In his revealing, must-read 2-page report, The Daily Caller’s Neil Munro details the “Many loopholes hidden in the immigration bill” being shepherded by Arizonans John McCain and Jeff Flake, doing Obama’s work in collusion with the Gang of 8 gangsters. McCain admits it’s “not that much different from what we tried to do in 2007.”
Munro’s exposé comes as the reality of the ongoing criminality of those who will...
In a single issue — Sunday’s edition — The Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic), bawdily bared itself in a fashion befitting a porn star.
The Viewpoints section opened with illegal immigration hustler, Linda Valdez, spewing seemingly endless bile at recently deceased British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as she links her to conservative icon Ronald Reagan, hurling insults at both. Her abhorrence of the pair is palpable from the headline “Maggie, Ro...
What would McCain consider as next step in ”curbing violence?”
As John McCain aims to restrict Second Amendment rights in the wake of the Newtown shooting tragedy, the Obama regime is buying up billions of rounds of bullets, to guard against law abiding citizens being able to possess firearms that function.
Yet the most recent attack that seriously wounded at least 14 people — two remain in critical condition — was carried out by a knife wielding perpetrator.
