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Matthews didn't challenge McCain's pledge to go to Supreme Court if Bush indicated that he was "not going to abide" by an act of Congress
Summary: Chris Matthews did not challenge Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) assertion that he would "be one of the first to support going to the United States Supreme Court" if the president indicated through a signing statement that he was "not going to abide" by a law passed by Congress. In fact, while McCain initially rebuked President Bush over a signing statement to his detainee treatment bill and threatened close congressional oversight, he has since neither sought a ruling from the Supreme Court, nor even held hearings on the subject.
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Posted by peet
Mathews...
...well, "Is a man of that limited experience ready for the presidency?"
Right, right... he should at least be a born-again, 'ex'-alcoholic/drug addict, draft-dodging, repeated failed businessman, illiterate, ... Now those are credentials we common folk can really wrap our feeble brains around!! This guy's got big shoes to fill.
Posted Friday October 20, 2006 1:21:50 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by leatherhelmet in reply to peet
Please
quit trashing Bill Clinton.
Posted Friday October 20, 2006 1:57:22 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by peet in reply to leatherhelmet
right...
...good one. The man (Clinton) was a Rhodes Scholar. Bush can't put two words together. No comparison...
However, Clinton was a draft-dodger..and, I suppose, Whitewater would mark him for failed business man. Oh yeah... but, 'he didn't inhale' remember? Oh well...
Posted Friday October 20, 2006 2:37:08 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by solon in reply to leatherhelmet
Only someone
Absolutly ALLERGIC to reality would describe Clinton as illiterate. Maybe you can get a shot for that allergy leather
Posted Friday October 20, 2006 7:20:32 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by MickD
Future Shock
Tweedy should be Johnny's campaign manager, heroically there in case JMc admits to any fault or vulnerability (the man is superhuman, he's even had two wives!). They are having (in a word that hilariously described the closeness between Matthew McConaughey and Lance Armstrong) a "bro-mance."
Posted Friday October 20, 2006 1:38:22 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by evillib1727
damn
MATTHEWS sounds like a broken record. Can we really hold McCain accountable for not taking him to the supreme court yet?
Posted Friday October 20, 2006 1:53:09 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wolf kotenberg
Mathews loves McCain...............
and it shows
Posted Friday October 20, 2006 2:06:02 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by shrubshredder47158
Tweety loves...
Tweety loves whoever's in front of him.
Posted Friday October 20, 2006 2:17:58 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by shrubshredder47158
totally bankrupt
Give it up, leatherboy. Your party, your president, your entire world view has been exposed for the bankrupt fraud it is. Deal with it.
Posted Friday October 20, 2006 2:32:35 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by shrubshredder47158
McCain? Accountable?
McCain? Accountable? That's a good one. If he had any stones he would have raked shrub and herr rove over the coals for the hatchet job they did on him in the 2000 SC Primary. Speaking at Falwell's joint and Bob Jones' finishing school for ignorant white-trash nitwits is hardly a step in the right direction. He wants to survive and thrive and get the repo nomination. That makes him as fraudulent and corrupt as the administration and the rest of scumbags in the repo Congressional leadership.
Posted Friday October 20, 2006 2:39:56 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by ChristianDemocrat
[Obama] folded.
Matthews reminds me of the blood thirsty whimp who hangs by the side of the bully. "You were the tough guy," Mathews continues. Impossibly pathetic.
Anyone who read the letters of that exchange know that Obama didn't fold. He did remain respectful even in the face of juvenile accusations by McCain. To McCain's credit, he didn't cave to Matthews' rediculous fawning, complimenting Obama and calling him "a future leader of this country." Possibly prophetic.
Posted Friday October 20, 2006 2:57:01 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by michael80
Best description of McCain I've seen
Thsi is from last week's espidode of Real Time where Bill Maher compares John McCain to Bush's dog Barney. About 2:15 into the clip.
[link to www.youtube.com]
Posted Saturday October 21, 2006 6:34:28 AM EDT / Flag this comment