Mr. McCain: are you out of your freaking mind?!?
By krempasky Posted in FEC — Comments (15) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
John McCain, the ever-vigilant defender of freedom and speech nanny-state, incumbent-protecting crusader for more regulation - has begun to circulate his list of "acceptable" candidates to fill posts on the Federal Election Commission.
As Allison wrote last week,
It might be enlightening, given McCain’s disdain for the “wrong people” to know who the Senator believes are the “right people.”
So...what do I hear?
Wait for it.
Wait for it.
John McCain has circulated Larry Noble, president of the Center for Responsive Politics and regulator extraordinare....to fill Brad Smith's seat. Brad Smith's!
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Sorry, that was my forehead hitting the keyboard. Over. And. Over. Again. Don't get me wrong - Mr. Noble is a charming fellow - but I would no sooner let him near the FEC than let Michael Jackson near an orphanage. This would be like replacing Paul Tagliabue with Bud Selig - Obi Wan with Palpatine - and the list goes on.
He simply believes - quite radically - that you can regulate all the bad, all the hurt, all the meanness out of politics - leaving only warm and fuzzy townhall meetings - probably paid for at taxpayer expense.
Nevermind the good advice of the folks at Roll Call
We, of course, would prefer to see men and women who would look beyond the interest of one party and try to objectively interpret and apply the laws governing campaigns.
Friends, Larry Noble is *not* that guy. Leave him where he is, running his multimillion dollar effort to stop you from speaking. At least then he doesn't get to just vote to put your arse in the pokey when you get out of line, he has to argue for someone else to do it.
MEMORANDUM TO CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP: if you put Noble on the FEC, a pox on both your houses.
Update [2005-8-2 16:44:30 by krempasky]: First, I'd just like to see candidates fill out the Skeptic's little questionaire.
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If this has already been asked and answered, but how is it that Kos gets to be an activist AND have ads, and we don't?
Last cycle, had someone decided to take the shot - it's almost assured that Kos made corporate contributions.
of the regulators (in the sense of a fine), or is that considered ex post facto at this point?
Release your anger...over this suggestion!
Seriously, every now and then McCain starts to seem like Goldwater Redux, and then he says something like this. I really don't know where to place the guy on the spectrum. He's like some weird mix of Rockefeller and Goldwater.
Which is probably why he irks so many people.
I wouldn't mind seeing Palpatine as Secr'y of Defense though.
"Strike the insurgents down. Show no mercy."
Good stuff I say.
As long as he doensn't go create, fund, and lead the opposing army, too....
Well McCain is rather cavalier about that pesky first amendment thingy. Note: Never trust a man with tiny T-Rex hands.
Never trust a man with tiny T-Rex hands
That remark is in very poor taste. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you did not know that his limited range of motion came as a result of his war injuries.
I've been abstaining from these threads lately. My views are what they are, and I don't want to come across as spending all my time bashing Mike on this.
BUT...
What do you expect? This whole thing (that is, Federal rulemaking regarding speech regulation) is broken. It can't be fixed. It can't be made to be ok. There is no such thing as a person who could be appointed that (short of a complete dereliction of his duty under the law) could make this acceptable.
Every few days or so, as the federal mill continues to grind, you respond with reinvigorated outrage. I don't get that. Do you have expectations that things are suddenly going to change?
My position remains the same: The only rational response to these laws is (a) to ignore them and not lend credibility to the rule making process by participating and (b) violate them at every opportunity.
How fun would it be to come home a disabled war hero after years in a POW camp to be called Senator tiny hands? McCain has taken some of the worst the Vietcong had to offer, so I'm sure he can take whatever politicaly charged personal attack is thrown at him. But attacking him because of his sacrifice is beyond low.
back in the 1980's, McCain has been out to avoid taking personal responsiblity or admitting that even a genuine war hero can screw up.
Instead of dealing with his personal weaknesses, he has chased the delusion of creating a 'system' where cheating will not occur by robbing people of their freedom.
Well the message this elderly, out of touch, pathoological old man needs to take is:
Get your hands off of our liberty.
I don't know or care any longer if he is acting in good faith. Proposing people who are anti-thetical to freedom, and make money off of promoting an end to free elections, which his 'acceptable' buddy Noble wants, is harmful to us all.
Only modern statists can find consitutional rights never written and defend them against all restrictions, while taking plainly written freedoms and sticking them in the shredder.
I am frankly sick of what McCain represents in politics: irresponsibility masking as policy at the cost of freedom.
Stop him now.
President...John...McCain...
President...John...McCain...
President...John...McCain...
Say it with me now, boys and girls, because it doesn't matter what you think right now. You will be happy to vote for him against the Hillster...the Weekly Standard knows...they have the Kristol Ball...and they are looking deeply, deeply...
President...John...McCain...
President...John...McCain...
Presidrnt...John...McCain...
"You will be happy to vote for him against the Hillster..."
Just wait until immigration becomes the key issue in 2008...
Michael Jackson near an orphanage. That was a good one.
Heh
I guess we can add you to the 'no' pile.