Good John Smacks Down Obama Over AZ Immigration Bill

And it's about time, too.

By: Bill S (Diary) | April 24th, 2010 at 05:57 PM |

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Following Arizona’s passage of a tough new immigration law, Barack Obama described the law as “misguided” and implied that Arizona was being “irresponsible” by trying to protect its lawful citizens.

Surprisingly (to me, at least), Senator John “the Maverick” McCain responded:

“If the president doesn’t like what the Arizona Legislature and governor may be doing, then I call on the president to immediately call for the dispatch of 3,000 National Guard troops to our border and mandate that 3,000 additional Border Patrol [officers] be sent to our border as well,” McCain said at a news conference Friday in downtown Phoenix, according to a report in the Arizona Republic.

“And that way, then the state of Arizona will not have to enact legislation which they have to do because of the federal government’s failure to carry out its responsibilities, which is to secure the borders.”

Good idea, especially considering that Mexican military border incursions have continued unabated for years now. Perhaps the National Guard can help with that, along with stemming the tide of illegals.

Where was the Good John McCain during the 2008 election? Where was that McCain in 2005 and 2007 when “immigration reform” was proposed? Maybe Bad John has given way to Good John in the wake of a strong primary challenge from J. D. Hayworth? Amazing what a little competition will do. Now if only he’ll remember it.

Tags: Arizona, Barack Obama, immigration, J. D. Hayworth, John McCain

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JadedByPolitics

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honorable

John McLame is saying all these things only to win the primary and once he is re elected he will go back to bieng the John of the Washington Dc and not AZ.

He seems to have forgotten the Kennedy McCain Amnesty and his lap dog Lindsey Gramnesty is still working with Chucky Schummer on Immigration and Cap and Tax bills.

He needs to retire and enjoy his rich Senate Pension and healthcare. Let JD carry the torch of conservatism. because he is not able to carry it.
http://phxg.wordpress.com/ phxg

n/t
philbo

When Kyl was running for re-election in 2008, he swore he would kill the McCain/Kennedy/Bush amnesty bill. Once elected, he delivered. He changed the name of the bill to Kyl/Cornyn amnesty bill. Expect no better from McCain. He is a cynical poseur.
gkendall

is quite beneficial, as all good capitalists know. The Marxist Tribe hates it, of course.
crassus

It’s good that he is saying all of this stuff… but we know that if it was not for J.D. Hayworth, he would be leading the fight against it. Amnesty is a disaster and so is McCain.
Scope

and Hayworth now has even more campaign commercials. Put the Bad McCain in an ad with his sicko Amnesty bill, and his lack of support for border enforcement. He is now sounding very very desperate. Go JD, hammer his sorry sick little skinny white butt.

What a master joker.
JamesSmith130

John McCain is a sore loser. He is neither a conservative nor a progressive nor a maverick. This is a guy who holds grudges against his opponents personally and is a big baby. His recent conservatism is solely based on his personal grudge against BHO and not on any held principle. Lets look at his record.

He was a pretty orthodox conservative in his first few years. Then he was hit with the Keating Five and then championed campaign finance reform. Then he used that to run for President in 2000 and lost to Bush. McCain?s feelings were hurt.

Immediately he became Bush?s worst nemesis among the GOP in Congress, voting against his tax cuts and a bunch of other stuff and threatening to switch parties. In fact, had Jim Jeffords not done so, McCain may well have. Again McCain?s feelings were hurt.

Stung by the Jeffords switch, and the Dems refusal to court him enough, along with 9/11, McCain moved back to the GOP mainstream. Doing so, he expected that this would help him be the nominee in 2008. It did end up getting him the nomination, and he faced a guy he felt (and correctly) had not paid his dues, and had not given McCain enough credit for being the anti-GOP maverick that McCain prided he was. Again McCain?s feelings were hurt, and he determined himself to become the most anti-Obama senator that he could.

Which takes us to today. McCain has been pretty good in the last year and half because of his personal grudge against Obama (not based on principle). But who knows who would hurt McCain?s feelings next. If JD beats him or comes close, it will be conservatives that McCain lashes out against next.

Everything for McCain is personal. Until now, he has been sore about losing to Obama and has lashed out in that manner. That will change if he loses or almost loses to JD Hayworth, and he will turn his hurt feelings against conservatives. Lets make sure that this big baby’s hurt feelings won’t drive Senate action, and make sure this guy is gone in 2010.
throwback59

had his “road to Damascus” moment. It may be due solely to his primary challenge and may not be permanent but having him with us instead of against us in this battle is huge.
Who knows, maybe his lapdog Grahamnesty will see the light.
archer52

I”ve lived this before. The politicians creating a law that treats the symptom so they are forced to confront the disease. Here is my post at my site, I hope you all take time to read it.

http://truthandcommonsense.com/2010/04/24/arizona-takes-one-step-closer-to-your-papers-please-typical-example-of-treating-a-symptom-and-not-the-disease/

Most good cops fear the power of being able to demand “Your papers please”. It is not who we are or what we are charged to do. But the politicians see this as an easy answer (which is not) to a sticky problem. They simply will not address the real disease that causes the symptoms because they want the votes.

Here is an excerpt-

“So, what is the disease that keeps the boils popping up?

Remember the rule- ?Chase the offender not the offense.? What is the offender here? Simple- money. The illegals come here to make money taking jobs we won?t take for the wages offered. It is a boon to them and a relief to us. The politicians see illegals as a way to insure their return to power in D.C. which of course makes them rich. Businesses want illegals to work for them because they cost less to employ. The government, especially the Social Security department, likes the idea of having seven and a half percent sent into their coffers under a fake social security number. If they didn?t, would they not immediately notify the employer?

It is and always has been about the money.”

If you want to solve this problem take away the disease, the motivation for them to come here. It would be simple and full of common sense, but a tough decision and one none of the politicians on either side are willing to take.
AceInTX

So we’ve gone from “fine, I’ll build the GOD DAXXED FENCE!” to let’s lock down the border, send in troops, a lock it all down in las than two years?

Why is that exactly?

Thank you JD!

Anyone want to bet we’ll see the last of of “GOOD JOHN” t and “JUAN MCAMNESTY” will be back in all his petty vindictiveness he day after the 2010 vote in November if he manages to pull off a victory against Hayworth!

I always new McCain was a fraud and a self serving Son Of A BiXXX but man has the mask come off since JD announced and McSham has had to fight for his life..,..there is no man of principle…there is no man of honor…he’s a liar and a cad of the worse order…it’s a shame that he’s besmirched the true act of heroism he committed by staying in the Hanoi Hilton when he had a chance to come home when the chance was offering him…McCain has destroyed his own credibility since being elected to Congress….he’s destroyed that act of selfless courage with his arrogance and self servitude and if 2010 proves nothing else…it will prove that power really does corrupt!!
AceInTX

if you want to know McCain and were he is on all this…don’t pay a lick of attention to what he’s saying on the campaign…Lyndsey is his surrogate at the moment…and the minute he is firmly in office after the Nov 2010 elections…there will be a giant sucking sound as he flies back to assume the rains from his boy toy for SC!
secondpatriot76

Looks like Juan McRino aka John McCain is getting religion now that St. Peter is in sight. This guy was never tough on illegal immigration. This is so transparent we can see right through this. If JD were no running McCain would hae called Gov. Brewer and asked her to veto the bill. McCain is not fooling anybody.
AceInTX
AceInTX
JadedByPolitics

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AceInTX

as every reptile does!

Great analogy Jaded!!!
snowshooze

After the fiasco that was the last Presidential Elections were Johnny wouldn’t say a word against Obama…he threw out his chances.
I watched the ” Debates ” in absolute horror…Obama gave McCain opportunity after opportunity to broadside him, but good ol’ John passed every single chance to blow him out of the water.
Sarah, on the short leash, is the only reason he even stood a decent chance.
But we have McCain 3.0 now…the latest greatest rockem sockem nail spittin’ bronc buster and conservative firebrand.
Looks like he won’t even be able to hold his day job now…
—yawn—
tngal

Before the AZ gov signed it into law, McAmnesty signaled his approval of this bill. Simply because it does little to face the problem we already have in this country at large . He still believes in the same thing O believes in – a “pathway to citizenship” aka amnesty. As if we didn’t have a number of those already on the books. Some of those take a years to work through, but once you make it through legally you’re more than welcome.

McCain knows there will be amnesty in the upcoming immigration bill…and he will vote for it, while simultaniously condemning it in his campaign speeches.
tngal

FWIW…if you like to delve a little further than just the news articles or blogs that hit on one or two items of interest… the following is the address from the arizona legslature of the complete bill as it was sent to the governor. This way when you want to point out all its good/bad aspects or want to form a thorough argument as to what might or might not be constitutional you got ammo.

http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/49leg/2r/summary/h.sb1070_04-19-10_astransmittedtogovernor.doc.htm

(And no, I don’t know how to make it do the linky thing. And yes, I’m sorry I posted after myself.)
NeoKong

Why doesn’t Arizona have a border fence ?
McCain has not lifted a finger to secure the border nor has any other Republican.
Millions more have crossed the border since 2006 and it has only gotten worse.
Phoenix is like the kidnapping capital of the U.S. right now and there is a civil war right across the border.
McCain did not seem to want to make it an issue in 2008 when he was running nationally but now that his race is local he is Mr. Secure The Border.
He had his chance to walk the walk but instead all we got was a dance.
He can’t be trusted.
america1st

He’s only marginally more ethical than anklepants and 0bozo. He lied to my face during the 2000 NH Republican Primary campaign. He is more like bubba than bozo in that he makes no move without looking at how it will play in Peoria, but in his heart he is dimocrap lite, not the political descendant of Senator Barry Goldwater. He just doesn’t lie as instinctively or as frequently as the last two dimocrap “presidents.”
6eorge Jetson

McCain’s campaign manager had feasted at the Fannie trough to the tune of ~$2 million. When the credit crisis hit after the Lehman bankruptcy on 9/15/08, McCain raised the issue in only the most feeble, token manner.

The result? Without the lead Republican spotlighting the role of Fannie & Freddie 1) pooling and issuance of half of US mortgages and 1/3 of US subprime mortgages, offering cash flow guarantees on a good deal of these (which shifted the risk from the downstream investors to the taxpayers and the accountability of the upstream mortgage brokers to the taxpayers, and 2) acting as defacto hedge funds with their own mortgage investment portfolios totaling over $1 trillion, the Dems were able to shift the blame for the credit crisis to the Republicans.

While McCain certainly had other flaws, this failure hit Republicans across-the-board in 2008, leading to the 60 seat Democratic supermajority, which enabled ZeroCare to be passed.

By the way, Rex Grossman no longer starts, as the NFL has seen Bad Rex do more damage than Good Rex can make up for.
aesthete
aesthete

Goldwater was available. Right now, we have no heirs to his legacy running for the Senate seat, and the best that we can hope for is that a loudmouth party loyalist will beat out the fool currently in possession of the seat.
bs61

I think that he’ll vote yes, while a deal has been made to let him vote no on this years amnesty!
bs61

Just like Brewer suddenley concerned for our borders, while as a Rep, she wants to raise taxes! I’m ashamed of them both!
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Running as a conservative then legislating like a Democrat is the homage RINOs pay to their conservative base. There is no good McCain – there is McCain the DC RINO, and McCain the campaign hypocrite.

We need McCain’s statements and actions as a RINO in an ad, with The Who’s song “We won’t get fooled again” playing.

McCain spent the 1980s sucking up to S&L Charles Keating, which reslted in bilking of millions from taxpayers and investors, then he started sucking up to the media to save his skin. He’s not improved since.
If you are conservative, you have NO business voting for McCain … his real record is too destructive to conservative ends.

http://article.nationalreview.com/343264/the-real-mccain-record/mark-r-levin

McCain-Feingold ? the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.

McCain-Kennedy ? the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.

McCain-Lieberman ? the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry ? through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases ? in American history.

McCain-Kennedy-Edwards ? the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients? bill of rights.

McCain-Reimportation of Drugs ? a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety (hey Rudy, pay attention, see link).

And McCain?s stated opposition to the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts was largely based on socialist, class-warfare rhetoric ? tax cuts for the rich, not for the middle class. The public record is full of these statements. Today, he recalls only his insistence on accompanying spending cuts.
RedBeard

Since I’ve been aware of him, he has waffled, wavered, flipped, flopped, and mavericked his way all over the political landscape like a steer on loco weed.

This behavior is the result of not having a firm philosophical foundation. He can’t tell right from wrong, and therefore it’s impossible to trust him to make good decisions.

Voters saw this, and it alienated so many people that it gave us our current mess of a presidency. Thank you, John.
RedBeard

McCain opposing Obama on AZ immigration law is a GOOD thing, even if it’s temporary. Applause. Gift horse, mouth, etc.
bs61

seems like a smarmy politician – but he’s rated good conservative voting record. I just want McCain gone in the primary!
bs61

I’m torn – I want him gone in the primary, but I think if he loses the primary next month, he’ll have nothing to lose and vote for every progressive measure.
bs61

no matter how offensive or I find JD – McCain must go! I vowed that I would never vote for him again since he flew back from the presidential campaign to vote for the first bailout, just like O. He is not a conservative!
mbecker908

There is actually one part of the law will absolutely work and will reduce the number of illegals in Arizona. Serious employer sanctions.

Hire somebody, don’t bother with (or ignore) E-Verify, find out they’re illegal and it’s a felony for the business owner or the top on-site executive. Combine that with serious fines for first offenses and there will be exactly no jobs for illegals. Every business is required to have an I-9 in the employee’s hiring package. Add in E-Verify.

Oh, and with the exception of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office, no police agency in the state will actively pursue this.
leftylurker

I suppose you all would say I liked the “bad” one. The good one does nothing for me, because he clearly has no scrap of honor that he is unwilling to sell for short term gain. I’m glad that nobody’s buying it, because he has shown himself to be a man who will turn on his convictions whenever it’s convenient.

I registered R in 2000 so I could vote for Mac in the CA primary, and I was pretty pissed off at the smears that brought him down in SC. That was low class, and it upset me that it happened to someone I thought was a good man…I would have waited hours in line to vote for Mac against Al Gore, but history is history…

We need more politicians who really *believe* in something. The left used to really believe, whether you liked them or not, they were motivated by something outside of opportunism and short term gain. I think Obama believes in something, but I’m beginning to see it’s not exactly what I thought it was when I voted for him.

It’s a hard place in which to be. I live in Michigan, and we have an open primary. I’m really not sure if I’ll vote R or D for governor, but I promise you that it will be for someone who actually seems like a real person.

Sorry to get off on a bit of a rant there…Just sad to see McCain selling himself out.
http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

In the 1980′s I thought that McCain was a good libertarian conservative with real convictions and that Rudolf Giuliani was just an opportunistic ambitious politician with no convictions.

I was 180 degrees wrong on both counts, they are in reality just the opposite of what I thought.
casca

The criminal decay is spreading and that is why the governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer has been forced by these circumstances to enact police actions. BECAUSE THE US GOVERNMENT REFUSES TO ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS– AMERICANS ARE CONFRONTED BY ALIEN CRIMINALS WHO?S ACTIVITIES ARE SPREADING NATIONWIDE. But read what this internal war is costing taxpayers, by not securing the dilapidated fence across the Southern border. Not only will I send my Donation for Sheriff Joe Ariapo, but another as a contribution for Arizona’s Governor if the state is sued. I left California, as English is almost a second language there now?

Information about expenditures are available by applying Google and using keywords, such as ?Illegal alien entitlements.? or words to that effect. Read more: dailycaller.com/2010/04/15/illegal-immigration-is-a-tax-dollar-drain/ Learn where your tax dollars are going?
Authored by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) Lamar Smith is the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee. Every country has a right to restrict foreign nationals from entering its sovereignty lands–no matter their country of origin? America has been infested with extremist groups that are stealing our–OUR–rights, freedoms and denouncing the US Constitution. Even the national press has been infiltrated by staunch Liberals, hiding behind the Democratic mantle.

The feds need to permanently install E-verify, that includes the 287 (G) empowerment of police to inquire of a person?s nationality. This has finally happened in Arizona, as the legal residents are sick and tired of subsidizing illegal immigrants. It is incessant battle of law enforcement in principle cities, throughout America fighting against the deadly encroachment of drug dealers. Throw out all the pro-amnesty incumbents starting with Sen. Harry Reid in the midterm Election? The rest might get the message if they were not se dense that Americans don’t want Amnesty of any kind. That Pelosi, Graham, Schumer, McCain and all the leading Dems who think giving somewhere between 20 and 30 illegal aliens is a good thing. Read the above mentioned URL, then all them shouldn’t be canned?

If they think that Health Care was one Hell of battle, you wait until renegade politicians try to drive through a blanket Amnesty? Sending billions of dollars out the country for family members, then “Chains of other family members” turning up, sponsored–then dropped and YOU will pay. Bring in the sick, handicapped–others with contagious diseases, whose health treatments YOU will pay for. Sharing your Social Security and retirement pensions–AND THEY WILL STILL TURN UP AT OUR WIDE OPEN BORDER BY THE MILLIONS. Are our politicians intentionally out to wreck this country? Don’t just think how many who are here already–family unification could and will escalate our population by another Hundred Million–just ask the US Census bureau?

Phoenix–where law abiding citizens are afraid to go out at night, home invasion robberies, multiple kidnapping, murder and sexual and violent assaults on every gender and children too are a daily occurrence. California–the Sanctuary State–for illegal alien?s welfare and protection is not any better in its constant battle against illegal immigrant crime. Hit and runs are a never ending activity by foreign nation getting intoxicated, leaving a trail of blood around this nation. Many prosecutors have their hands tied, or hide the truth as they have been intimidated by mayors like Villaraigosa and Newsom. YEARS OF INDIFFERENT ADMINISTRATIONS ARE ENTIRELY TO BLAME. WE WILL FIGHT PRESIDENT OBAMA’S AMNESTY THAT GIVES A FREE PASS TO CITIZENSHIP OF ANY PERSON WHO VIOLATED OUR LAWS OF SOVEREIGNTY. WE WILL NEVER, EVER ALLOW THIS TO BE SIGNED INTO LAW. Learn the outrageous facts of passing AMNESTY, that our taxes will pay for at NumbersUSA
http://www.helpawhiteguy.com livefreenh

The way I see it, Obama is picking and choosing which laws apply to which people. This is behavior of a monarch, and not the behavior of the President of a Republic. It is also called “Chicago-style politics” and with all respect to the good people of Chicago, we don’t want that either. Factually, The People of the United States have enacted legislation that spells out the terms of lawful immigration. We have also hired law enforcement to, well, enforce the law. I can’t imagine how to explain it in any more simple terms.
sdeakins

I vote Mexico the 58th state.
eheassler

On its face, John McCain’s statement is right on the mark. The only problem with it is that it came from John McCain. He is not believable. He is the same individual who, when it came time to support conservative issues such as voting against immigration reform that included amnesty and supporting Bush’s judicial nominees i.e. “Gang Of 14″ fiasco, McCain cannot be counted upon. At heart he is a “Progressive RINO” and his record supports that.

I respect Sen. McCain’s service to his country and think that he has been a good citizen but it is time for him to go home and stay home. I hope that AZ has the foresight to vote in a conservative that, after having been in DC for two weeks or longer, will remember why he/she went there in the first place.

EHeassler
USN-Ret.
justfedup

There is little if any intelligent life in DC. Lots of road time is part of my job, 45 to50k miles a year. I spend a lot of time on I-10 , southeast Texas & southwest La. Why are there Border Patrol vehicles parked on the sides of I-10? Are gators illegally swimming into Louisiana? Is Bobby Jindal trying to keep Texans out of the casinos? Will the border patrol stop those pesky hurricanes? Patrolling 500 miles away from the US-Mexican border is just another failed policy out of Washington. In regards to McCain, his amnesia will only last until November, then he will remember he is a RINO.
Aaron Gardner

It’s a redundant system created to catch those who aren’t caught at the border.
Aaron Gardner

I think Obama believes in something, but I?m beginning to see it?s not exactly what I thought it was when I voted for him.

See what happens when you lurk around RedState.
ihateliberals

we need to be able to say “John Who from AZ”. MCCain the chameleon needs to retire. This RINO will not continue to stand for what’s right for America only what’s right for John. All those years in the POW camp surely didn’t do him any good. You would have tought it would have made him a fighter but instead he just seems to be a chameleon. He changes color by which way the win blows. AZ needs fresh blood, America needs fresh leadership.
acat

I-10 is a major corridor for moving both .. and I’m not sure which Louisiana is more concerned about…

Mew
Aaron Gardner
Banjo

t’s time someone used the hook on this tired act. McCain would do and say anything right now to win the primary. The day after, win or lose, he will return to the RINO everyone knows and hates except on the other side of the aisle.
zeezil

Arizona ? Doing the Work the Feds Refuse to Do

Arizona, by enacting a strict illegal immigration law has decided it wants less murders, kidnappings, assaults, rapes, human smuggling, drop houses, home invasions, drugs, welfare recipients; and fewer illegitimate users of their schools, health care and judicial systems. What?s not to like and cheer on about that?

MUCH MORE at: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/04/arizona_just_doing_the_job_the.html
justfedup

Point is if you’re sitting on the Sabine River looking for illegals, you’ve surrendered the idea of controlling points of entry. In addition you get to claim that you didn’t see Mexican helicopters flying in Texas airspace. Border states need to step up. As for narco-interdiction, upper levels have no desire to win that war. It’s the obama doctrine, “uncomfortable with winning”.
brojohn2

except to be a RINO anything else you might expect from Mcpain you will lose. He is a Washington D.C. lackey and will not become anything else.

RINO is nothing more than a Democrat in an elephant suit. He is still a democrat.
–

John Quigley, County Chair
Kinney County Republican Party
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”
–Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Ludlow, 1824
winsomlosesome

and with a straight face, too!

There’s an old cowboys’ saying, “Never change horses in the middle of the river.” McCain has changed horses too many times, and now it’s time to say “adios” to him.

Of all the things I dislike about him, one of the worst was his stand against waterboarding. Never mind how many American lives that process which he thinks of as “torture” could save. Oh, no! A murdering terrorist might be too frightened by fear of drowning.

What a duplicitous, lying, two-faced pantywaist!
winsomlosesome

“it looks like you’ve alread said this”? I haven’t said anything other than what I just submitted about McCain.

Please show me where and when I already said it.
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