{"id":2369,"date":"2008-02-02T12:40:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T18:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/mccain-and-duhbya\/"},"modified":"2008-02-09T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T17:26:09","slug":"mccain-and-duhbya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/mccain-and-duhbya\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain and Duhbya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/02\/02\/mccain-signing-statement-iraq\/\">Does John \u2018100 Years\u2019 McCain Agree With Bush\u2019s Signing Statement On Iraq?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/mine\/2008\/02\/mccainbush1.jpg\" align='right' \/>Earlier this week, when President Bush signed the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act, he issued a little-noticed signing statement, claiming that provisions in the law \u2014 including the barring of funds for permanent bases in Iraq \u2014 could be disregarded.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in Congress were quick to condemn Bush\u2019s stealth measure. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/markhalperin.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/bushcake.jpg\" alt=\"mccain &#038; bush\" align='left' \/>Conspicuously absent from the debate over Bush\u2019s signing statement is Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). In the past, McCain has spoken out aggressively against signing statements, saying they are \u201cwrong\u201d and that they \u201cshould not be done\u201c:<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cI would never issue a signing statement,\u201d the Arizona senator said at a Rotary Club meeting in Nashua, adding that he \u201cwould only sign it or veto\u201d any legislation that reached his desk as president.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps McCain is keeping silent because he shares Bush\u2019s goal of an indefinite, long-term presence of American troops in Iraq. Last month, McCain said it would be \u201cfine with\u201d him \u201cif we maintain a presence in\u201d Iraq for \u201ca hundred\u201d years.<\/p>\n<p>The question arises as to what\u2019s more important to McCain: his anti-signing statement pledge or an indefinite presence in Iraq?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>A lot of Democrats I know respect McCain and would find him a tolerable president. (Most of them don&#8217;t know he&#8217;s anti-choice.) A picture is worth a thousand words. Duhbya used dirty tricks to crush McCain in 2000. In 2004, McCain clings to Duhbya. Is this sick, tired, old man our next president? <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2373\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/holdme.jpg\" alt=\"McCain hugs Duhbya\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does John \u2018100 Years\u2019 McCain Agree With Bush\u2019s Signing Statement On Iraq? Earlier this week, when President Bush signed the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act, he issued a little-noticed signing statement, claiming that provisions in the law \u2014 including the barring of funds for permanent bases in Iraq \u2014 could be disregarded. Democrats in Congress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/mccain-and-duhbya\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McCain and Duhbya<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}