Robert Gates vs. John McCain! Decency vs. bigotry! National security vs. … well, bigotry!
The Senate Armed Services Committee was probably always going to get into discussing President Obama’s call to get rid of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” during its Tuesday hearing with the defense secretary about next year’s proposed More…
President Obama called on Congress to repeal the ban on openly gay people serving in the military last night. The path to doing so runs through the Senate Armed Services Committee, where Defense Secretary Robert Gates — who applauded the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” line in Obama’s State of the More…
It’s not exactly surprising that some Republicans would be using the failed Christmas terror plot to grandstand and try to thwart President Obama’s plans to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, but there’s something particularly disconcerting when leading senators such as John McCain (R-Ariz.), Lindsey Graham More…
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) sent a letter to President Obama today asking him to halt the transfer of six Guantanamo detainees to Yemen. The request, they say, is in light of the danger they’ve apparently just now realized Yemen poses, because More…
With the expected announcement of the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois, a Republican-driven hysteria is virtually guaranteed. That’s as empty as it is uninteresting. What’s interesting is whether the Republicans’ 2008 presidential nominee and national security elder statesman, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), joins More…
And here we are at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. The two leaders of the committee have their own issues with the Afghanistan strategy, judging by last week’s hearings with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the More…
One day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) hammered him for “flip-flopping” on Medicare cuts, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) fired back this morning on the Senate floor (starting at 0:16 in this clip). McCain cited a FactCheck.org analysis from the More…
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), after having pledged support to the strategy articulated by his presidential rival, gets upset over the July 2011 transition “strategic inflection point.” He all but called it deceitful, and asked Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, if setting the date contradicts counterinsurgency More…
There’s talk about how Iran’s apparent rejection of President Obama’s outreach represents the end of a 2008 campaign goal. And it’s not exactly wrong, though it may be premature. But in today’s Washington Post, it’s clear that another, darker campaign vow is returning, this time about Pakistan. More…
Via Brian Faughnan, here’s former Rep. J.D. Hayworth testing the waters for a 2010 challenge to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
There is something you can do right now…you will find attached an invitation to an event scheduled for Dec. 5, featuring Joe Arpaio, “America’s Toughest Sheriff.” “Sheriff Joe” has
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