McCain Lives in a Glass House

[nwagner]

Originally Posted by kpierce

Hence my attitude towards parent licensing. We have an age limit on drinking. We have an age limit on smoking. We require schooling and licensing to be a hair stylist. Yet, anyone who pops out a baby at any age is automatically assumed to have the mental capacity and financial position to care for the child. It's asinine. We should have an age limit, schooling, required financial status, etc. to be able to reproduce.

Its asinine indeed that our government assumes the role of parent by telling us who can and cannot smoke and drink. It is asinine indeed that the government, rather than a free market, dictates the terms to be a hair stylist.

On the other hand, it is beautiful that the government is virtually powerless to dictate who can be a parent. The thought of a bureaucrat deciding who is and is not qualified to be a parent is horrific. I almost had a heart attack imagining the prospect of a bunch of misguided liberals establishing standards for who is and is not qualified to be parents. Considering public education's horrendous track record, I can only imagine how much worse the American family would be if the government meddled this deep into our lives.

[nwagner]

Originally Posted by kpierce

Tell that to the neglected, abused, starving children.....not me.

We have social services for that.

[kpierce]

Originally Posted by nwagner

We have social services for that.

Yep, that's the answer. Let little Jamie pop out kids at 15, 16 and 17 because she too realizes that when she can't handle it there's "social services for that".

[Joseph Burkeson, CMI]

Keating Economics.

[Michael Larson]

Originally Posted by jburkeson1

Keating Economics.

Repeating yourself Joey?

Obama resurrects a lie to attack McCain

In 1991, the Senate Ethics Committee determined that Democrats Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with regulators in their investigation of Lincoln Savings, with Cranston receiving a formal reprimand. But - pay attention! - Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were "criticized" by the Democrat Senate committee for having exercised "poor judgment"...........


According to Bennett, referring to a New York Times hit piece that was reported just before his Fox interview:

"You know, I'm in a pretty unique position to talk about John McCain. First, I should tell your listeners, you know, I'm a registered Democrat, so I'm not on his side of a lot of issues. But I investigated John McCain for a year and a half, at least, when I was special counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee in the Keating Five, which, by the way, this New York Times article goes back to and discusses, goes back years and years. And if there is one thing I am absolutely confident of, it is John McCain is an honest and honest man. I recommended to the Senate Ethics Committee that he be cut out of the case, that there was no evidence against him, and I think for the New York Times to dig this up just shows that Senator McCain's public statement about this is correct. It's a smear job. I'm sorry.


If your listeners want to know about the Keating Five case, I have a whole chapter on it. And what happened was that I had recommended that John McCain be cut out of it and not go forward. And, you know, I call it the way I see it. As I said, I'm a Democrat. And I recommended they go forward against Senators DeConcini, Senator Cranston and Senator Riegle.


But if you cut out John McCain, you would have had 28 days of public hearings with just Democrats in the dock. So, it's probably the first time in the history of the Senate that they rejected the advice of their counsel to exonerate a senator.

McCain's "crime" was attending two meetings with the 4 other senators with government regulators investigating Keating in the room. He was guilty of participating in meetings where he would say that, "the appearance of it was wrong. It's a wrong appearance when a group of senators appear in a meeting with a group of regulators, because it conveys the impression of undue and improper influence. And it was the wrong thing to do." So McCain admitted the poor judgment, but just poor judgment attending two meetings.

[nwagner]

Originally Posted by kpierce

Yep, that's the answer. Let little Jamie pop out kids at 15, 16 and 17 because she too realizes that when she can't handle it there's "social services for that".

I hate to break it to you communists but there are problems you simply cannot prevent. Deal with it.