John McCain on HotAir

John McCain

Oct 2017

Former Hillary strategist: Come on, you can’t buy the presidency for $100K

Ed Morrissey Oct 18, 2017 6:01 PM

McCain signs onto Facebook transparency … whatever that means.

Smooth sailing? McCain endorses budget-reconciliation plan for tax reform

Ed Morrissey Oct 18, 2017 4:01 PM

Trump’s greatest danger is … success?

Sep 2017

Just what is the future of the Graham-Cassidy bill?

Taylor Millard Sep 25, 2017 8:01 AM

Probably failure. And no…it’s not John McCain’s fault.

Jimmy Kimmel was coached by Chuck Schumer

John Sexton Sep 22, 2017 7:21 PM

“Kimmel and his staff also spoke with other activists and organizations opposing Graham-Cassidy…”

CBO: We’re not going to make preliminary projections on latest ObamaCare repeal bill

Ed Morrissey Sep 18, 2017 6:01 PM

Beat the clock?

Here we go: McCain, Trump endorse last-gasp ObamaCare repeal bill

Ed Morrissey Sep 07, 2017 7:21 PM

Another lay-up opportunity?

Aug 2017

Sen. Johnson: Sorry for suggesting McCain’s brain cancer was a factor in his Obamacare repeal vote

John Sexton Aug 09, 2017 5:01 PM

“I’m disappointed I didn’t more eloquently express my sympathy for what Sen. McCain is going through.”

Jul 2017

GOP Senate hopeful: Let’s face it, McConnell’s got to go

Ed Morrissey Jul 28, 2017 4:41 PM

“We need new leadership in the Senate if they can’t get the job done.”

49-51: The stunning, gasping, and mavericky end to ObamaCare repeal

Ed Morrissey Jul 28, 2017 8:01 AM

Get ready for the “waste, fraud, and abuse” excuses.

McCain’s floor speech: We’re getting nothing done and the bombastic loudmouths on TV and radio aren’t helping

Allahpundit Jul 25, 2017 10:01 PM

“They don’t want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood.”

Octogenarian cancer patient returns to D.C. for healthcare vote

Jazz Shaw Jul 25, 2017 9:21 AM

A hard man to keep down

Ward to McCain: Step down so I can be appointed to replace you

Ed Morrissey Jul 21, 2017 4:41 PM

“Dumbstruck.”

“McCain has always been a fighter”

Ed Morrissey Jul 20, 2017 8:41 AM

“Cancer doesn’t know what it’s up against.”

John McCain’s medical problems are Mitch McConnell’s political woes

Jazz Shaw Jul 16, 2017 9:31 AM

And both are serious

Take 3? Toomey announces new Senate health-care bill coming

Ed Morrissey Jul 10, 2017 12:01 PM

“Mike Pence breaks the tie.”

Jun 2017

Nancy Pelosi: If only George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, or John McCain were president now instead

Allahpundit Jun 09, 2017 4:01 PM

“The people who voted for [Trump], it’s almost like ‘Any mammal will do.'”

May 2017

McCain: Putin’s a bigger threat than ISIS

Ed Morrissey May 29, 2017 12:31 PM

“I don’t like it. I just don’t.”

Apr 2017

Unganged, or how the Senate learned to stop worrying and love the Reid Option

Ed Morrissey Apr 08, 2017 2:31 PM

Senators, heal thyselves.

Russia demands UN Security Council meeting over US “act of aggression”

Ed Morrissey Apr 07, 2017 12:41 PM

“This beginning had to happen.”

20 House Democrats request removal of Devin Nunes from Russia investigation

John Sexton Apr 04, 2017 9:01 PM

“This is about country, not party.”

Red lines: Chemical-weapons attack in Syria kills dozens

Ed Morrissey Apr 04, 2017 8:41 AM

Followed by an air strike on a hospital.

Oh my: McCain backs McConnell on the nuclear option

Ed Morrissey Apr 03, 2017 5:01 PM

Game over?

Wait… do we actually have the votes to nuke the filibuster?

Jazz Shaw Apr 03, 2017 2:31 PM

Gang of three?

Mar 2017

The gangs may be busted, but John McCain is still slogging along

Jazz Shaw Mar 31, 2017 2:01 PM

Neil Gorsuch will likely be the end of Senate gang warfare

Gang-busters: Gorsuch confirmation on collision course

Ed Morrissey Mar 30, 2017 2:01 PM

McCaskill: “By the way, Gorsuch was one of the better ones.”

Rand Paul response: McCain’s the poster child for term limits

Ed Morrissey Mar 16, 2017 5:21 PM

“I think maybe he’s gotten a little unhinged.”

Paying for the wall — Coast Guard, TSA, FEMA, and Secret Service?

Ed Morrissey Mar 09, 2017 2:01 PM

How about Mexico? “Uh … no.”

Feb 2017

John McCain’s “dictator” talk ignores reality and his own past with the media

Jazz Shaw Feb 19, 2017 9:31 AM

If you think the Free Press is being suppressed here you’ve clearly never been to Turkey

Sunday morning talking heads

Allahpundit Feb 19, 2017 8:01 AM

Rejection.

CBS: Petraeus out of running to replace Flynn

Ed Morrissey Feb 18, 2017 11:31 AM

Back to the drawing board?

Jan 2017

McCain: I may vote against Mulvaney for OMB

Ed Morrissey Jan 25, 2017 12:31 PM

Upcoming Trump EO on interrogation “wouldn’t stand a day in court.”

McCain, Graham: We’re voting for Tillerson after all

Ed Morrissey Jan 23, 2017 8:41 AM

“The incoming president gets the benefit of the doubt.”

Flying pig watch: McCain leaning toward supporting Tillerson?

Ed Morrissey Jan 17, 2017 2:01 PM

“Barely, yes.”

Clapper: Scope of “multifaceted” Russian cyber campaign had to be approved at highest levels

Ed Morrissey Jan 05, 2017 12:41 PM

McCain: “Everyone should be alarmed.”

Dec 2016

McCain: We need a select committee on cyberwarfare, not just the Russia hacks

Ed Morrissey Dec 19, 2016 10:01 PM

What took this long?

What I wish Rex Tillerson would say during his confirmation hearings

Jazz Shaw Dec 14, 2016 7:41 PM

I suppose it’s about the same as that of everyone else in the current administration

Nov 2016

Results for AZ, NM, NV and UT

John Sexton Nov 08, 2016 6:01 PM

The late show.

Report: Your write-in vote for president is meaningless and literally won’t count for anything

Larry O'Connor Nov 01, 2016 8:01 AM

Churlish. Vacuous. Selfish.

Oct 2016

McCain: I … don’t know if Trump would be better than Clinton on the Supreme Court

Allahpundit Oct 17, 2016 10:41 PM

“I promise you that we will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put up.”

Sep 2016

Democrats who cried wolf on Mitt Romney have nowhere to go on Donald Trump

John Sexton Sep 01, 2016 7:21 PM

“Four years ago, he was a bloodsucking capitalist vampire…”

Aug 2016

Sen. McCain unlikely to join NeverTrump in the general election

John Sexton Aug 29, 2016 4:41 PM

“No. There’s no reason to do that.”

Carson: Our two elderly candidates need to release their medical records

Ed Morrissey Aug 24, 2016 4:01 PM

“That would include both major candidates.”

“We need the unity”: Trump endorses Ryan — and McCain and Ayotte

Ed Morrissey Aug 06, 2016 1:01 PM

“We will have disagreements, but we will disagree as friends, and never stop working together toward victory.”

“I’m just not quite there yet”: Trump refuses to support Paul Ryan, John McCain in their primaries; Update: I didn’t ask for your support, says Ryan

Allahpundit Aug 02, 2016 5:41 PM

Loyalty.