Epstein Secrets

rybody eager to use military force? Name a single Republican (or Democratic) leader who has called for sending troops into Ukraine. The critique by John McCain and others is that when the Ukrainians last month came asking for weapons to defend themselves, Obama turned them down. The Pentagon offered instea

ending troops into Ukraine. The critique by John McCain and others is that when the Ukrainians last mont

l rules didn't apply. In particular, this was no time to worry about budget deficits and cut spending, which would only deepen the depression. When John Boehner, then the House minority leader, declared in early 2009 that since American families were having to tighten their belts, the government should tigh

GOP leaders like Boehner oppose that idea but have been unwilling to publicly condemn the effort. In the Senate, the GOP's pragmatic wing includes John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Bob Corker of Tennessee and Johnny Isakson of Georgia. They've been meeting frequently with White Hou

top Obama aides seeking ways to replace deep, non-discretionary automatic cuts known as sequestration with gentler, more targeted cuts. Graham and McCain are chiefly motivated by a desire to restore Pentagon cuts they say will cripple the military. Other Senate Republicans like Susan Collins of Maine

ntirely new cuts came to the House floor in the form of an actual bill for EFTA00678677 funding transportation and housing programs, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, confronted shaky support from less ardently conservative Republicans and decided to pull the $44 billion package on July 31. That sparked

ng kit and technical assist=nce to the Iraqi government. He declined to say whether America should launch air strikes. Even the hawk's hawk, =enator John McCain of Arizona says that he does not want ground troops sen= back to Iraq, though he would like Mr Obama's national security team fi=ed. Senator Rand P

h air strikes. Even the hawk's hawk, =enator John McCain of Arizona says that he does not want ground tro

ant Mr Obama to do anything with American force. Thus the most senio= elected Republican in Washington, the Speaker of the House of Representat=ves John Boehner, criticised the president on June 12thfor watching terror=sts seize growing swathes of Iraq, adding: "And what is the president doing? Taking a nap

t that wasn't their approach—to put it mildly." He insisted that the G.O.P. had moved too far to the right to make bipartisanship possible. He and John McCain had agreed on issues like immigration, climate change, and campaign finance. "The center of gravity for their party has shifted." But maybe, Obama

de and welfare reform. In 2000, Bush ran on a more progressive education platform than E FTA_R1_02204187 EFTA02720658 his Republican colleagues. McCain once supported a cap-and- trade system and a version of immigration reform now condemned by almost all Republicans. There would be no such "zones o

ach an agreement: the debt ceiling had to be raised by the end of the summer. The Cantor-Biden talks ended two months later, and Obama and Speaker John Boehner worked until July to reach a "grand bargain" of modest tax hikes, entitlement reforms, and spending cuts. A fourth group, consisting of three Repub

e in the U.S. Senate who repeatedly put forward the nation's best and most sophisticated answers to the climate challenge for many years was Senator John McCain. The nominee of the Republican Party was the premier architect of responding to climate change. How far things have changed in the past four years

climate challenge for many years was Senator John McCain. The nominee of the Republican Party was the pre

tion to solving the problem. And in fact, we think our principles and our solutions are better than yours." BILL MOYERS: So • Speaker of the House John Boehner and I ask you to come see me and I say I want to do what you're suggesting. Give me the sound bites a real conservative can use. ANTHONY LEISEROWIT

Careers advance by how well you learn on the job and how well you get along with the rest of the swamp and play its game. In 2008, Walsh became the McCain campaign’s midwest regional finance director— having majored in marketing and finance at GW, she was trusted to hold the checkbook. Then on to deputy

not long after the election. “You’ll want to be your own son of a bitch, but you don’t know Washington.” Ailes had a suggestion: “Speaker Boehner.” (John Boehner had been the Speaker of the House until he was forced out in a Tea Party putsch in 2011.) “Who’s that?” asked Trump. Everybody in Trump’s billionai