Group to have McCain's lost marbles returned to him when he arrives in Denver
| By Alan Franklin - Oct 1st, 2008 at 4:08 pm EDT |
Call to remind McCain to calm his erratic temperament
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
CONTACT: Michael Huttner
(303) 931-4547 cell
Denver: With Senator McCain to arrive in Denver Thursday afternoon, ProgressNowAction called on those who are attending to return real marbles to Senator John McCain to remind him that we need more even-keeled temperament for our country. The group displayed a McCain bowl with hundreds of marbles and cited a record of issues important to Colorado where McCain appears erratic or irate.
"We call on McCain to get control of his temper, and be less erratic on issues such as the economy," stated Michael Huttner, Executive Director of ProgressNowAction, the state's largest online progressive advocacy organization.
The group plan to hand out marbles to those attending McCain's event and ask that they return the marbles to McCain to remind him that we need our leaders to be calm and collected, not temperamental and erratic when making important decisions.
"We need those attending tomorrow to return his marbles," stated Huttner. "He is erratic on the economy, hot-headed on when it comes to developing sound policies, and all over the place when it comes to protecting Colorado's water," stated Huttner.
McTemper
McCain Was Frequently Rated As Having One Of Congress' "Hottest Tempers" By Washingtonian Magazine. John McCain was rated in the Washingtonian as having one of Congress' "hottest tempers" in 2006, 2004, 2000, and 1998. McCain had the second "hottest temper" in Congress in 2006, placed first in 2004, 2000, and placed second in 1998. [Washingtonian, September 2006; Washingtonian, September 2004; Washingtonian, September, 2000; Washingtonian, July 1998]
McCain "Scuffled" With 92 Year-Old Strom Thurmond After A Committee Hearing Dispute. According to Washingtonian, "In January 1995, McCain was midway through an opening statement at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing when Chairman Strom Thurmond asked, 'Is the senator about through?' McCain glared at Thurmond, thanked him for his 'courtesy' (translation: buzz off), and continued on. McCain later confronted Thurmond on the Senate floor. A scuffle ensued, and the two didn't part friends." Newsweek reported that McCain was rumored to have shoved "one or two" senators, including Strom Thurmond, who was in his 90s at the time of the alleged incident. [Washingtonian, 2/97; Newsweek, 2/11/08]
McCain Repeatedly Called Senator Pete Domenici an "A**hole." According to Newsweek, "Why can't McCain win the votes of his own colleagues? To explain, a Republican senator tells this story: at a GOP meeting last fall, McCain erupted out of the blue at the respected Budget Committee chairman, Pete Domenici, saying, 'Only an a--hole would put together a budget like this.' Offended, Domenici stood up and gave a dignified, restrained speech about how in all his years in the Senate, through many heated debates, no one had ever called him that. Another senator might have taken the moment to check his temper. But McCain went on: 'I wouldn't call you an a--hole unless you really were an a--hole.' The Republican senator witnessing the scene had considered supporting McCain for president, but changed his mind. 'I decided,' the senator told Newsweek, 'I didn't want this guy anywhere near a trigger.'" [Newsweek, 2/21/00]
Sen. Thad Cochran: McCain Is Erratic, Hotheaded, Loses His Temper, And It Worries Me. Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who has endorsed Mitt Romney, criticized McCain's temper. Cochran said, "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine...He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me." [Boston Globe, 1/27/08]
McCain Began His Senate Career Screaming At A Young Volunteer. According to the Arizona Republic, "It was election night 1986, and John McCain had just been elected to the U.S. Senate for the first time. Even so, he was not in a good mood. McCain was yelling at the top of his lungs and poking the chest of a young Republican volunteer who had set up a lectern that was too tall for the 5-foot-9 politician to be seen to advantage, according to a witness to the outburst." Jon Hinz, then Executive Director of the Arizona Republican Party, noted of the outburst, "You'd have to stick cotton in your ears not to hear it. He (McCain) was screaming at him, and he was red in the face. It wasn't right, and I was very upset at him." [Arizona Republic, 11/5/99]
Foreign Policy Blunders
McCain Said He Wanted To "Have A Missile Defense System In Place In Czechoslovakia." During a Republican Presidential Debate on Fox News, McCain said discussed Vladimir Putin by saying, "This is a dangerous person. And he has to understand that there's a cost to some of his actions. And the first thing I would do is make sure that we have a missile defense system in place in Czechoslovakia and Poland, and I don't care what his objections are to it." [Fox News, Republican Debate in Florida, 10/21/07]
McCain Referred To "President Putin Of Germany." While giving a speech in February 2007, John McCain said, "I was in a conference in Germany over the weekend, and President Putin of Germany gave one of the old Cold War-style speeches." [Moscow Times, 1/28/08]
McCain: "General Petraeus Goes Out There Almost Every Day In An Unarmed Humvee." During an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, John McCain said, "You know, that's why you ought to catch up on things, Wolf. General Petraeus goes out there almost every day in an unarmed Humvee. You want to -- I think you ought to catch up. You see, you are giving the old line of three months ago. I understand it. We certainly don't get it through the filter of some of the media." [CNN, "The Situation Room," 3/27/07]
FACT: General Petraeus's "People" Said McCain's Statement Was Not True. According to CNN's John Roberts, "I checked with General Petraeus' people overnight and they said that he never goes out in anything less than an armored Humvee." [CNN, 3/28/07]
McCain is Erratic on the Economy:
"I don't think anyone who wants to increase the burden of government regulation and higher taxes has any real understanding of economics and the economy and what is needed in order to ensure the future of this country."
-- John McCain [McCain Town Hall in Inez, Kentucky, 4/23/08
McCain Is An Avid Supporter Of Lax Rules For Financial Institutions
McCain Has Based His 2008 Campaign On Promoting Less Regulation
McCain Supported A Banking Bill Because It Eliminated "The Tremendous Regulatory Burden Imposed On Financial Institutions." While speaking in favor of bank deregulation on the floor of the senate, John McCain said, "This legislation takes a small but important step toward eliminating the tremendous regulatory burden imposed on financial institutions... One principal reason banks are unable to make loans is the bewildering array of statutory and regulatory restrictions and paperwork requirements imposed by Congress and the regulatory agencies. While a case can certainly be made that every law and regulation is intended to serve a laudable purpose, the aggregate effect of the rapidly increasing regulatory burden imposed on banks is to cause them to devote substantial time, energy and money to compliance rather than meeting the credit needs of the community." [Congressional Record, 11/19/93, emphasis added]
McCain: "I Don't Think Anyone Who Wants To Increase The Burden Of Government Regulation And Higher Taxes Has Any Real Understanding Of Economics." During a McCain Town Hall in Inez, Kentucky, John McCain said, "When we come out of this recession and we will because I believe that the fundamentals of our economy are good ... Sen. Clinton wants the government to make the decisions for you on your health care, I want the families to make the decisions on their health care. I don't think anyone who wants to increase the burden of government regulation and higher taxes has any real understanding of economics and the economy and what is needed in order to ensure the future of this country." [McCain Town Hall in Inez, Kentucky, 4/23/08, emphasis added; Downloadable Clip HERE]
McCain: "We Went About And We Cut Taxes And Reduced Regulation." During a Town Hall Meeting in Waco, Texas, John McCain said, "We went about and we cut taxes and reduced regulation and we restrained spending, and we embarked on one of the strongest and longest economic periods of prosperity in this nation." He added, "The economic conditions when President Reagan came into power were incredible and we went about with one common goal and that was to fix our economy and based on conservative fiscal principles, less taxes, les regulation, smaller government."3/03/08, emphasis added] [McCain Town Hall Meeting; Waco, Texas,
McCain: "I Have A Long Voting Record In Support Of Deregulation." The St. Petersburg TimesSt. Petersburg Times, 6/5/03] quoted McCain at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing as having said, "I have a long voting record in support of deregulation." [
McCain: "I Don't Think Anyone Who Wants To Increase The Burden Of Government Regulation And Higher Taxes Has Any Real Understanding Of Economics." During a McCain Town Hall in Inez, Kentucky, John McCain said, "When we come out of this recession and we will because I believe that the fundamentals of our economy are good ... Sen. Clinton wants the government to make the decisions for you on your health care, I want the families to make the decisions on their health care. I don't think anyone who wants to increase the burden of government regulation and higher taxes has any real understanding of economics and the economy and what is needed in order to ensure the future of this country." [McCain Town Hall in Inez, Kentucky, 4/23/08, emphasis added; Downloadable Clip HERE]
McCain Is Long-Time Supporter of Deregulation
McCain: "I Am A Deregulator. I Believe In Deregulation." While speaking about the cable and satellite television during an appearance on CNN's "On the Money," John McCain said, "I am a deregulator. I believe in deregulation." [CNN, "In the Money," 7/13/03]
McCain: "The Basic Core Principles of the Republican Party... Less Government Is Best Government, Less Regulation." When asked how the Republican Party can recover after the losses in the 2006 election, John McCain said, "By returning to the basic core principles of the Republican Party, very careful stewardship of tax dollars, less government is best government, less regulation, lower taxes, strong national defense, community and family values." [CNN, "CNN Newsroom," 11/8/06]
All over the place on water:
When Sen. John McCain came to Colorado recently, he proved one more time that he doesn't understand Colorado or the issues we care about. To put it simply, he's missing the boat on water.
Talking to the Pueblo Chieftain newspaper, McCain said the Colorado River Compact "obviously needs to be renegotiated." (Pueblo Chieftain, Aug. 15)
He wants to take water from Colorado to deliver more to his home state of Arizona.
Senator Ken Salazar wasted no time responding. "Over my dead body," he said. What McCain proposed flies in the face of decades of hard-won negotiations, which resulted in an agreement reached just last year that protects Colorado's water rights from exploding sprawl in downstream states like Arizona.
The Denver Post denounced McCain's attack on Colorado's water rights, saying "McCain's comments were...not only political poison in Colorado, they displayed a disturbing ignorance of the realities of the West's scarce water resources. To say Westerners are disappointed in McCain would be an understatement." (Denver Post, Aug. 19)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
CONTACT: Michael Huttner
(303) 931-4547 cell
Denver: With Senator McCain to arrive in Denver Thursday afternoon, ProgressNowAction called on those who are attending to return real marbles to Senator John McCain to remind him that we need more even-keeled temperament for our country. The group displayed a McCain bowl with hundreds of marbles and cited a record of issues important to Colorado where McCain appears erratic or irate.
"We call on McCain to get control of his temper, and be less erratic on issues such as the economy," stated Michael Huttner, Executive Director of ProgressNowAction, the state's largest online progressive advocacy organization.
The group plan to hand out marbles to those attending McCain's event and ask that they return the marbles to McCain to remind him that we need our leaders to be calm and collected, not temperamental and erratic when making important decisions.
"We need those attending tomorrow to return his marbles," stated Huttner. "He is erratic on the economy, hot-headed on when it comes to developing sound policies, and all over the place when it comes to protecting Colorado's water," stated Huttner.
McTemper
McCain Was Frequently Rated As Having One Of Congress' "Hottest Tempers" By Washingtonian Magazine. John McCain was rated in the Washingtonian as having one of Congress' "hottest tempers" in 2006, 2004, 2000, and 1998. McCain had the second "hottest temper" in Congress in 2006, placed first in 2004, 2000, and placed second in 1998. [Washingtonian, September 2006; Washingtonian, September 2004; Washingtonian, September, 2000; Washingtonian, July 1998]
McCain "Scuffled" With 92 Year-Old Strom Thurmond After A Committee Hearing Dispute. According to Washingtonian, "In January 1995, McCain was midway through an opening statement at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing when Chairman Strom Thurmond asked, 'Is the senator about through?' McCain glared at Thurmond, thanked him for his 'courtesy' (translation: buzz off), and continued on. McCain later confronted Thurmond on the Senate floor. A scuffle ensued, and the two didn't part friends." Newsweek reported that McCain was rumored to have shoved "one or two" senators, including Strom Thurmond, who was in his 90s at the time of the alleged incident. [Washingtonian, 2/97; Newsweek, 2/11/08]
McCain Repeatedly Called Senator Pete Domenici an "A**hole." According to Newsweek, "Why can't McCain win the votes of his own colleagues? To explain, a Republican senator tells this story: at a GOP meeting last fall, McCain erupted out of the blue at the respected Budget Committee chairman, Pete Domenici, saying, 'Only an a--hole would put together a budget like this.' Offended, Domenici stood up and gave a dignified, restrained speech about how in all his years in the Senate, through many heated debates, no one had ever called him that. Another senator might have taken the moment to check his temper. But McCain went on: 'I wouldn't call you an a--hole unless you really were an a--hole.' The Republican senator witnessing the scene had considered supporting McCain for president, but changed his mind. 'I decided,' the senator told Newsweek, 'I didn't want this guy anywhere near a trigger.'" [Newsweek, 2/21/00]
Sen. Thad Cochran: McCain Is Erratic, Hotheaded, Loses His Temper, And It Worries Me. Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who has endorsed Mitt Romney, criticized McCain's temper. Cochran said, "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine...He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me." [Boston Globe, 1/27/08]
McCain Began His Senate Career Screaming At A Young Volunteer. According to the Arizona Republic, "It was election night 1986, and John McCain had just been elected to the U.S. Senate for the first time. Even so, he was not in a good mood. McCain was yelling at the top of his lungs and poking the chest of a young Republican volunteer who had set up a lectern that was too tall for the 5-foot-9 politician to be seen to advantage, according to a witness to the outburst." Jon Hinz, then Executive Director of the Arizona Republican Party, noted of the outburst, "You'd have to stick cotton in your ears not to hear it. He (McCain) was screaming at him, and he was red in the face. It wasn't right, and I was very upset at him." [Arizona Republic, 11/5/99]
Foreign Policy Blunders
McCain Said He Wanted To "Have A Missile Defense System In Place In Czechoslovakia." During a Republican Presidential Debate on Fox News, McCain said discussed Vladimir Putin by saying, "This is a dangerous person. And he has to understand that there's a cost to some of his actions. And the first thing I would do is make sure that we have a missile defense system in place in Czechoslovakia and Poland, and I don't care what his objections are to it." [Fox News, Republican Debate in Florida, 10/21/07]
McCain Referred To "President Putin Of Germany." While giving a speech in February 2007, John McCain said, "I was in a conference in Germany over the weekend, and President Putin of Germany gave one of the old Cold War-style speeches." [Moscow Times, 1/28/08]
McCain: "General Petraeus Goes Out There Almost Every Day In An Unarmed Humvee." During an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, John McCain said, "You know, that's why you ought to catch up on things, Wolf. General Petraeus goes out there almost every day in an unarmed Humvee. You want to -- I think you ought to catch up. You see, you are giving the old line of three months ago. I understand it. We certainly don't get it through the filter of some of the media." [CNN, "The Situation Room," 3/27/07]
FACT: General Petraeus's "People" Said McCain's Statement Was Not True. According to CNN's John Roberts, "I checked with General Petraeus' people overnight and they said that he never goes out in anything less than an armored Humvee." [CNN, 3/28/07]
McCain is Erratic on the Economy:
"I don't think anyone who wants to increase the burden of government regulation and higher taxes has any real understanding of economics and the economy and what is needed in order to ensure the future of this country."
-- John McCain [McCain Town Hall in Inez, Kentucky, 4/23/08
McCain Is An Avid Supporter Of Lax Rules For Financial Institutions
McCain Has Based His 2008 Campaign On Promoting Less Regulation
McCain Supported A Banking Bill Because It Eliminated "The Tremendous Regulatory Burden Imposed On Financial Institutions." While speaking in favor of bank deregulation on the floor of the senate, John McCain said, "This legislation takes a small but important step toward eliminating the tremendous regulatory burden imposed on financial institutions... One principal reason banks are unable to make loans is the bewildering array of statutory and regulatory restrictions and paperwork requirements imposed by Congress and the regulatory agencies. While a case can certainly be made that every law and regulation is intended to serve a laudable purpose, the aggregate effect of the rapidly increasing regulatory burden imposed on banks is to cause them to devote substantial time, energy and money to compliance rather than meeting the credit needs of the community." [Congressional Record, 11/19/93, emphasis added]
McCain: "I Don't Think Anyone Who Wants To Increase The Burden Of Government Regulation And Higher Taxes Has Any Real Understanding Of Economics." During a McCain Town Hall in Inez, Kentucky, John McCain said, "When we come out of this recession and we will because I believe that the fundamentals of our economy are good ... Sen. Clinton wants the government to make the decisions for you on your health care, I want the families to make the decisions on their health care. I don't think anyone who wants to increase the burden of government regulation and higher taxes has any real understanding of economics and the economy and what is needed in order to ensure the future of this country." [McCain Town Hall in Inez, Kentucky, 4/23/08, emphasis added; Downloadable Clip HERE]
McCain: "We Went About And We Cut Taxes And Reduced Regulation." During a Town Hall Meeting in Waco, Texas, John McCain said, "We went about and we cut taxes and reduced regulation and we restrained spending, and we embarked on one of the strongest and longest economic periods of prosperity in this nation." He added, "The economic conditions when President Reagan came into power were incredible and we went about with one common goal and that was to fix our economy and based on conservative fiscal principles, less taxes, les regulation, smaller government."3/03/08, emphasis added] [McCain Town Hall Meeting; Waco, Texas,
McCain: "I Have A Long Voting Record In Support Of Deregulation." The St. Petersburg TimesSt. Petersburg Times, 6/5/03] quoted McCain at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing as having said, "I have a long voting record in support of deregulation." [
McCain: "I Don't Think Anyone Who Wants To Increase The Burden Of Government Regulation And Higher Taxes Has Any Real Understanding Of Economics." During a McCain Town Hall in Inez, Kentucky, John McCain said, "When we come out of this recession and we will because I believe that the fundamentals of our economy are good ... Sen. Clinton wants the government to make the decisions for you on your health care, I want the families to make the decisions on their health care. I don't think anyone who wants to increase the burden of government regulation and higher taxes has any real understanding of economics and the economy and what is needed in order to ensure the future of this country." [McCain Town Hall in Inez, Kentucky, 4/23/08, emphasis added; Downloadable Clip HERE]
McCain Is Long-Time Supporter of Deregulation
McCain: "I Am A Deregulator. I Believe In Deregulation." While speaking about the cable and satellite television during an appearance on CNN's "On the Money," John McCain said, "I am a deregulator. I believe in deregulation." [CNN, "In the Money," 7/13/03]
McCain: "The Basic Core Principles of the Republican Party... Less Government Is Best Government, Less Regulation." When asked how the Republican Party can recover after the losses in the 2006 election, John McCain said, "By returning to the basic core principles of the Republican Party, very careful stewardship of tax dollars, less government is best government, less regulation, lower taxes, strong national defense, community and family values." [CNN, "CNN Newsroom," 11/8/06]
All over the place on water:
When Sen. John McCain came to Colorado recently, he proved one more time that he doesn't understand Colorado or the issues we care about. To put it simply, he's missing the boat on water.
Talking to the Pueblo Chieftain newspaper, McCain said the Colorado River Compact "obviously needs to be renegotiated." (Pueblo Chieftain, Aug. 15)
He wants to take water from Colorado to deliver more to his home state of Arizona.
Senator Ken Salazar wasted no time responding. "Over my dead body," he said. What McCain proposed flies in the face of decades of hard-won negotiations, which resulted in an agreement reached just last year that protects Colorado's water rights from exploding sprawl in downstream states like Arizona.
The Denver Post denounced McCain's attack on Colorado's water rights, saying "McCain's comments were...not only political poison in Colorado, they displayed a disturbing ignorance of the realities of the West's scarce water resources. To say Westerners are disappointed in McCain would be an understatement." (Denver Post, Aug. 19)
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Unfortunately, the reality is not funny. John McCain is a classic case of untreated PTSD. In this last debate, almost all of the symptoms are there, including rapid blinking (100/min indicative of lying), whatever it was he mumbled under his breath while Obama was speaking, and the extreme no-eye-contact body language. He is literally afraid to look at Obama. The man is a ticking time-bomb, and deserves treatment at a VA facility.