Flashback: McCain Objected to Granting Dem Senator More Time

[Hissyspit]

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MSNBC Hardball w/ CHRIS MATTHEWS - 18 December 2009: Matthews shows footage from 2002 of McCain denying senators Dayton and Byrd extra time, which yesterday, McCain told Sen. Lieberman, he had "never seen" in his 20 years in the Senate. Busted.

[Tx4obama]

1. Rachel Maddow needs to talk to Chris and get the clip from him!

Tonight on Maddow's show she said that the clip was MISSING from the C-Span archives she instead of showing a clip she acted out the scene.

Seems like MSNBC's staff needs to work together a bit better!

[Hissyspit]

2. She could have used the YouTube video, too.

[Turborama]

17. K&R! Thanks for this, here's McCain's YT channel. We should spam him with the link to it...

JohnMcCaindotcom's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/johnmccaindotcom?blend=3&ob=4

[Rhiannon12866]

14. I was just thinking the same thing!

It would have been much more effective than having Kent acting it out. x(

[pleah]

40. Yeah, what was up with that? They just ran the clip

On Olbermann's show before her show. What the hell, she couldn't borrow the clip?

[hmorehead]

41. This isn't the same clip Maddow was reffering to. This is another time that McCain cut someone off.

[Tx4obama]

42. Yep...

The clip Maddow was talking about happened just moments before this clip.
It all happened about the same time.
McCain objected to Dayton then Byrd talked and McCain objected again.

[myrna minx]

3. K&R n/t

[Enrique]

4. omg I've never such a lack of COMITY!!!

:wow:

[RoyGBiv]

7. Who even talks like that?

Seriously.

Oh, wait, yeah ... privileged old farts in the Senate who don't get their way.

[mascarax]

8. Good one...not in 20 years, right?!

McCain. What a lying liar.

[Enthusiast]

26. TYPICAL REPUBLICAN.

Remember that. They are universally morally bankrupt. Hypocrisy on a massive scale.

[Chisox08]

35. That was over 20 ye... oh it was in 2002 nevermind

[NewJeffCT]

36. it's ok, though, McCain is a Republican

I'm sure it was just a youthful indiscretion on his part when he cut off Byrd.

[Hulk]

5. Hey...cut the senile old fart a little slack.

I'm sure he "forgot". Tough to remember stuff like that when you are in your eighties and you spent all your life concentrating on convertibles and blonds.

mcAncient is a f*cking, OLD fool.

[rpannier]

22. let us not forget

For the last 9 years McBush has been warning us about the Soviet Union

He was ridiculed by then Gov-Bush for saying that and he did it when he ran against Obama

[AnneD]

25. if he can't remember an important thing like.....

how many homes he has, give him a break on this petty crap.

[Grassy Knoll]

6. Poor John , he can't help it.....

He can't remember if he changed his Depends, or did Sarah do it for him.

[JDPriestly]

9. Matthews likes to thumb his nose at the netroots,

but I believe he just showed incredible ignorance. Wasn't the speak that McCain cut off the senator from West Virginia, Robert Byrd? And didn't Matthews mistakenly identify him as the senator from Minnesota?

[Hissyspit]

11. McCain cut off BOTH of the Senators, Sen. Byrd and Sen. Dayton of MN:

On October 10, 2002 — just ahead of the looming mid-term elections — the Senate rushed a debate on a war authorization giving President Bush the power to use force against Iraq. The resolution ultimately passed the Senate after midnight on an early Friday morning by a vote of 77-23.

During the course of the frenzied floor debate, then-Sen. Mark Dayton (D-MN) spoke in favor of an amendment offered by Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) that would have restricted Bush’s constitutional powers to wage war against Iraq. After a minute and a half, Dayton ran out of time, prompting this exchange:

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator’s time has expired.

Mr. DAYTON. I ask for unanimous consent that I have 30 seconds more to finish my remarks.

Mr. McCAIN. I object.

Byrd stepped in to grant Dayton time to finish his remarks. But just moments later, Byrd asked for more time to speak for himself. Again, McCain objected, prompting Byrd to chide him for doing so. “This shows the patience of a Senator,” Byrd said. “This clearly demonstrates that the train is coming down on us like a Mack truck, and we are not even going to consider a few extra minutes for this Senator.”

[mascarax]

10. Did McCain ever remember how many houses he owned?

So much to keep track of...

[Fearless]

13. Or to vet Sarah Palin??

Or was that bring her to the vet???

I forget. :rofl:

[Fearless]

12. You know he can't remember what he had for breakfast...

Never mind what he did 7 WHOLE years ago. :eyes:

[Angry Dragon]

15. You know

when you get old your memory goes ..... perhaps ethics go also.

[BlueMTexpat]

33. McCan't may have had a functioning memory at one time.

But he has always been ethically challenged, viz. his treatment of first wife Carol and his up-to-the-eyeballs participation in various banking scandals.
I respect his military service to our country, especially when others of his generation who blithely sent hundreds of thousands of Americans to fight in illegal and unnecessary wars made sure that they never served where they were in any danger, except perhaps to themselves.
Bur frankly, I've never understood his "appeal" for so many. His much-vaunted independence was always only a cynical search for what would get him the most headlines.
His POW experience was what first sold him to the public. But he was hardly the only American to have such an experience.

*****
And I LOVE this exposure!

:rofl:

[gateley]

16. K&R -- McCain makes my stomach go sour. nt

[opihimoimoi]

18. his rerun mode needs oiling

[Loudmxr]

19. This is what I have always asked. How can you tell a Republican is lying?

When they say the same thing over and over and over again. something.... SOMETHING HAS TO BE WRONG.. SOMEWHERE!!!!

We are not cutting Medicare we are adding to it. We know where the WMDs are. No one here leaked Valerie Plames name. The US attorneys had performance problems. No one could have seen 9-11 coming.:smoke:

How do you tell a Democrat is lying? It starts with "Let me tell you how I will cut the defense budget...."

[Loudmxr]

20. i'll post this here too. CSPAN belongs to US. It was hacked and there is stuff missing.

The objection to Dayton has been erased from the CSPAN data base. This is destruction of Federal property.

Its like some one was told to delete the Dayton objection but wasn't told of the Byrd objection so that is why it still exists. Silly Rs!! Not very thorough.

In any case this is, I hope, A FEDERAL CRIME. But not likely because a republican did it.:smoke:

[AnneD]

27. Exactly.......

Rachel went to an un reproachable source for the facts but it was corrupted. That, like Rosemary Woods missing 18 minutes, could be a story in and of itself, esp if someone is rewriting history.

[zogtheobvious]

21. Won't be long....

Won't be long before this side-by-side is on the Daily Show... :)

[burning rain]

23. McCain probably thought he'd get away with this sort of obvious contradiction of his record,...

because for the longest time during his Senate career, back when he was serving with the likes of John C. Calhoun, he could. But that was because there wasn't teevee then!

[Enthusiast]

24. My wife and I are laughing

about this. We both came to the conclusion that we can't name a single Republican we know that is not both a hypocrite and a racist. And we know a number of the weasels.

[Username 12]

28. I only saw Byrd

Where was Dayton?

[mascarax]

34. No video, only transcript available for Dayton

That's my understanding...the Dayton video is missing from C-SPAN's archives. Only the Byrd video is there.
But the transcript remains (ignored, no doubt, by McCain).

[Graybeard]

29. If you're going to be a liar you better have a good memory.

Age old advise that age old Senator McLumpy obviously forgot.

[Imagevision]

30. Take McCain with a load of salt, he lately has been full of doo-doo...

[Johnny ramone]

31. Ah !

I guess that he never heard about that new invention:video recording.

[malaise]

32. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Gramps is a fugging LIAR.

[Plucketeer]

37. Perpetually

[Hubert Flottz]

38. "Straight talking" John is still trying to ease the pain he inflicted on

poor little Joey GOPerman during campaign 2008, when he Picked Sarah Palin as a runningmate instead of little Joe.

There's a double standard in Washington I'm starting to believe.

[pleah]

39. K&R