{"id":5058,"date":"2016-10-25T00:13:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T07:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5058"},"modified":"2016-10-25T18:13:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T01:13:37","slug":"arizonas-crusty-old-obstructionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5058","title":{"rendered":"Arizona&#8217;s Crusty Old Obstructionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve commented before about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4659\" target=\"_blank\">so called &#8216;maverick&#8217; Arizona Senator John McCain&#8217;s about face on Senate confirmation of Supreme Court nominations<\/a>. Well, he recently confirmed what everyone knew; that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/10\/17\/498328520\/sen-mccain-says-republicans-will-block-all-court-nominations-if-clinton-wins\" target=\"_blank\">the Republicans will continue their pattern of obstructionism if Hillary Clinton becomes President<\/a>. To hell with his constitutional duty; the Republican Party comes first in America. This pretty much cements our opinion here at the Bucket that Senator McCain is well past his prime and needs to retire. Fortunately, his Democrat opponent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-_BCSysUkgw\" target=\"_blank\">Ann Kirkpatrick, is hitting hard with her ads against McCain, commenting about his support of right wing wackos from Sarah Palin to Donald Trump<\/a>. Will it be enough to defeat him? We&#8217;re not holding our breath. Unfortunately, most polls indicate McCain winning handily. So it appears we&#8217;ll have at least six more years of Republican partisanship with our crusty, old, obstructionist prospector senator, John McCain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5065\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5065\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldcootmccainobstructsupremecourt.jpg\" alt=\"Crusty old coot John McCain promises to be agin' all of Hillary Clinton's Supreme Court Justice picks even if she picks him.\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldcootmccainobstructsupremecourt.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldcootmccainobstructsupremecourt-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many sane Arizonans are fed up with crusty old coot and Republican Senator John McCain&#8217;s obstructionist shenanigans and vigorously encourage his retirement from politics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve commented before about so called &#8216;maverick&#8217; Arizona Senator John McCain&#8217;s about face on Senate confirmation of Supreme Court nominations. Well, he recently confirmed what everyone knew; that the Republicans will continue their pattern of obstructionism if Hillary Clinton becomes President. To hell with his constitutional duty; the Republican Party comes first in America. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5058\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arizona&#8217;s Crusty Old Obstructionist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,1126,60,8,85,3],"tags":[689,355,155,22,20,389,27,147,9,154,1359,575,199,21,231,98,596,235,19,738,785,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5058"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}