As everyone politically up to date is fully aware, states are in the process of redistricting following the results of the 2010 census.  Where and how the lines are drawn are extremely important, especially in acurately representing the composition of the state’s voters.  For conservatives, who won the overwhelming number of statehouses and Governor’s mansions in the 2010 elections, this is the hot fudge sunday of political desserts where the swing to conservative Republican state level governance pays off for the next 10 years.

On this last Wednesday, in a closed meeting, Arizona’s ‘Independent Redistricting Commission’ made up of 2 Republicans, 2 Democrats, and 1 ‘Independent’, voted 3-2 to chose the Leftist/Progressive firm Strategic Telemetry (http://www.strategictelemetry.com/index.php?pid=6) to remap Arizona’s district lines.  This is unconscionable!  The president of Strategic Telemetry was the national target director of Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign.

The Sonoran Alliance’s article:  Arizona ‘Independent’ Redistricting Commission Picks Leftist Progressive Firm to Map Arizona Lines, tells the whole tale.  Once again, Charley Brown comes out the loser to another Lucy moment, as the Republican led House, Senate, and Governor stand by and allow the Democrat machine to hijack a GOP operation.

Should you be so inclined to assist the good folks of Arizona in contacting the various officials who might be responsive to a deluge of contact from very unhappy conservatives, please avail yourselves of the following information:

1.  Call Attorney General’s Office:  Tom Horne 520-628-6504 or 602-542-5025 and 800-352-8431.  http://www.azag.gov/contact.html, and demand and injunction be filed, as the majority Conservatives/Republicans/Independents are not being represented by this commission.

2. Contact Arizona State Legislators!

3.  Call the Governor’s office:  602-542-4331 or 800-253-0883.  Send her an email at http://www.azgovernor.gov/contact.asp

4.  If you are in state, or just passing through, or know someone who is in state, attend the meetings:  http://www.azredistricting.org/meeting-info/default.asp.  You can subscribe at the website for the meeting information, to get the maximum number of voting folks out to them so they know we are watching every move they make.

5.  Demand transparency from Strategic Telemetry.  Demand that they open an Arizona office, instead of doing all their work from NY and DC.

6.  Confront Collen Mathis publically and on the record.  We need to document clearly that she is not fairly representing the majority of the state.

7.  Contact every member of the media you possibly can!  Force them to cover this outrage and informing the public of the bias in the ‘Independent’ Redistricting Commission.  Point out how frequently the Commission goes into Executive Session to avoid transparency, which was one of the original stated goals in forming the IRC!

Get the word out far and wide, and keep watching your own state process with an eagle’s eye out for such Democrat machine corruption and Republican ‘fairness and sharing’ with the losers!  Remember, “WE WON”, now take it like a man!  And, please, show the other side how statesmen and genteel folks handle their pitchforks and essays.

Thank you RedState community for your help in publicising this travesty of voter betrayal.

Updated:  From an email sent out by Ruth McClung:  My apologies, as I couldn’t figure out how to link to an email, so I made it into a Word document I could get into this format.  The following is Ruth’s content.

How to take action and new info on Liberals Redistricting AZ

The responses I have received after sending out a copy of my press release to you have been overwhelming.  Thank you all for contacting me and asking what you can do to help.  Since the press release I have found out some additional information that I would like to share as well as give you a process in which your voices may be heard loud and clear.

New information:

Strategic Telemetry and Ken Strasma as you know have been linked to several democratic campaigns.  The new information we have found is Mr. Strasma’s involvement directly with the DNC.  (Democratic National Committee).  Mr. Strasma has been very involved with NECE (National Committee for an Effective Congress) .  As stated directly on their web site:  an organization that would pool the resources of small contributors from across the country and spend those funds in the most efficient way to elect progressive candidates to the U.S. Senate and House.

NCEC also talks specifically about Arizona on their web page:  Indicating that our 2010 Census data could “alter democratic presidential strategy”. 

As stated in the Democratic Underground, you can find Mr. Strasma listed on this web page, identified as a trainer from NCEC for a Democrat training group. 

In addition to these things being uncovered, it was brought to our notice that the contract for this company has not yet been written or signed. In fact, the Arizona State Procurement Office has bowed out of working with the contracting of this company and so the Executive Director, Ray Bladine, has to write the contract himself. 

It was also brought to my attention that the chairman of the redistricting commission has a conflict of interest that she did not disclose.  Her husband was the Treasurer for Nancy Young Wright, who was an incumbent in LD26 until she was ousted by voters last election cycle. 

According to Article 4 of the Arizona State Constitution, Colleen Mathis needs to be removed as chairman of our Independent Redistricting Commission for Gross Misconduct, Neglect of Duty and Conflict of Interest.  Her vote was the deciding vote in bringing in the Liberals to Map the Congressional Districts here in Arizona.

There are two Republicans that sit on the redistricting commission that have been fighting this.  Thank you to both of them and please keep up the good fight for the people of Arizona.  I am sure I am not alone when I say NO party affiliation when it comes to mapping is acceptable in this State.  Republican or Democrat. 

What you can do:

Attend the meetings and speak.  If you cannot attend a meeting, pass the word around to someone who can.  Contact groups to alert them when the meetings are.  There were about 100 people present at the last meeting in Tucson; we need the same show of solidarity at all the meetings.  As many as possible.

Here is the link for the Redistricting Web site and meeting notice lists.  You have to sign up to receive emails.  Please note that they often change meeting times, dates and locations, since they set things as “tentative”. 

http://www.azredistricting.org/default.asp

For those of you who cannot attend a meeting, we must start contacting our elected officials every day through phone calls and in writing demanding that an injunction be put against this as well as the removal of the Chairman for the reasons stated above.

Here is a list of contact information for you:

Governor Jan Brewer: http://www.governor.state.az.us/contact.asp

Attorney General Tom Horn:  http://www.azag.gov/contact.html

Contact our House Representative:  http://www.azleg.gov/MemberRoster.asp?Body=S&SortBy=1

I am so proud to be standing with all of you against those who would take away our liberties!                                               

 Happy 4th of July!

Ruth

Paid for by Ruth McClung for Congress

I promised to post an update when I had some news from the PC front.  This is the next installment of my odessy becoming a representative to the local Republican Party.  Our apparently annual event, the Lincoln Day Luncheon, took place today for Maricopa County AZ.  Many of our elected officials were represented from various levels, Congresscritters through school board members, and Sheriff Joe and his wife.  A small number of awards were given out to members who had been identified for their significant and long standing efforts to facilitate growth in the local, county, and state party levels.  One of these, if I don’t mistake, went to prolific and distinguished RedStater ColdWarrior, for his unceasing efforts to swell the ranks of PC and contribute to the information we all now have access to in becoming a PC.  (Of course, that moniker isn’t how they know him; if my deduction is in error on that count, I apologize most profusely.)

From a videotaped message to the Maricopa Republican Party directly from Michelle Bachmann, through speakers Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Representative Schweikert, and Representative Franks, everyone had an opportunity to hear some of the folks who were propelled into office in the conservative wave that swept in 2010.  Conservative members of TeaParty groups were well represented among the luncheon attendees and PC ranks. 

Some officials, like Sheriff Joe, are up for re-election and need every dollar and minutes’ help they can muster.  Others, like David Schweikert, are just new on the job, and finding that the Washington swamp really stinks!  Not that that stops any of them from giving the job their best.

Well, party’s over for today, back to the work in our neighborhoods and communities!  Go PC’s!

Perhaps this should be just a simple posting, rather than a diary, but I did want to promote the ongoing volunteerism of becoming a PC, in this so-not-PC political climate we are facing.  I am following in the large and awesome footsteps of ColdWarrior and others who have been regular proponents of becoming a Precinct Committeeman.  I filled out and turned in my application this evening in LD-4 in Maricopa County, AZ, to become a PC for my area.  It will take about 30 days to wend its way through the system, shepherded by the leader of my district, and then I will be a newly minted PC.  I found out at tonights’ meeting of the LD-4 folks, that we have a huge 705 slots for PCs and only about 250 filled, here in this very voter populated district.  We have so much to do!  Many precincts apparently have no PCs at all, in an area which includes Sun City, Surprise, Peoria, parts of Glendale, out to Wickenburg, and small towns all around this Northwest greater Phoenix area.  Pray that leaders rise up to fill the open positions, so we can effect change in the Arizona landscape, and put old senile draft horses like John McCain to rest and pasture, with vital new blood to fight on for real conservative values.

As we turn the last corner on 2010 rounding the bend into 2011, the list of POTUS wannabes is growing.  Some are ‘legacy’ candidates who ‘have done their time’ in the GOP and have built the feeling that they ‘deserve their chance’ at being the nominee, in the mold of a Dole or McCain of recent contests.  Some bring cred as high dollar fundraisers; some as ideologues; some tout philosophical purity; some want recognition as grass roots organizers; some wish to piggyback a POTUS run on prior political service; some tie themselves to the TEA Party movement; and some are single issue folks who think their one issue is the one sure winner.  A few have more than one of these qualifying reasons.

Reading a post today over at HotAir by Mitch Berg from Sunday, laying out some of the reasons that Tim Pawlenty should make the serious list of POTUS candidates, I have to agree with Mr. Berg that there are certainly reasons to respect his accomplishments in Minnesota over the last 8 years.  However, I have a few issues that I believe will ultimately turn the electorate ‘off’ on Pawlenty and others, like Mitch Daniels.

Just because he came along at the right time to be nudged into fiscal discipline by his needing to appeal to the more conservative elements in the state of Minnesota, does not generate equivalence with an innate strength of core philosophy on monetary issues.  Necessity is the mother of invention, not the wellspring of bedrock beliefs motivating behavior.  A policy position is important for the many implications for implementation, but also for the ‘why’ that position is taken.  One taken simply for political expediency may be changed or discarded when the political climate changes, for instance.  And, a position taken out of expediency will not ultimately stand up when other options are seen as equally legitimate or available which more closely match the inner core beliefs of the candidate or elected official.

This is the essence of the problem with the electability of Pawlenty and his lack of appeal in the conservative movement.  Was he forced to walk the fiscally responsible line because there really wasn’t another adult position to take in the face of the legislators’ profligate teen-like spending habits?  Was he forced to veto or delay anything with spending attached when he would have been much more comfortable with a more nuanced response to the state finances?  Was his perceived fiscal conservatism forced on him by the complete polarization of the legislature, or would he have chosen that path anyway out of a strong personal conviction to smaller government and less taxation?

And, what about the perceived lack of backbone in standing up on more than just fiscal issues?  Perhaps he had some conservative viewpoint about the blatant corruption and fraud that accompanied the 2008 race for the Minnesota Senate seat between incumbent Norm Coleman and challenger Al Franken, but I can’t recall anything being reported that was attributed to Pawlenty supporting reformation of the process or pointing out the biased hand the State’s officials and Judiciary played in throwing that race to the Democrats like a thick juicy steak.  In not defining himself in any way for anything outside of a lopsided fight against the spending class, he has allowed himself to be painted as ineffective and obstructionist, instead of pioneering and strong.  He had a bona fide opportunity to shape his legacy with a national fight on the national political stage, and fight for the rule of law, and he threw the match by never even showing up.  He looks small and self protectionist by comparison.

Mitch Daniels faces some of the same tendency to small thinking in his ill-timed and poorly enunciated comments about putting social issues aside for the next election cycle while the fiscal issues take center stage.  As most folks know, it is impossible to deal with one without attention to the other; look at the drivers of financial issues, as social philosophy informs the problem.  High taxes have a financial cost as well as a social one; issues dear to the hearts of social conservatives have accompanying financial burdens which do need to be taken into consideration.  It is like looking only at heads, but not tails, when a coin is tossed; they are different sides of the same issues, and have interrelated effects on society.  One takes a hard slap at a significant percentage of the conservative population when you say before you even get started that one side is completely disqualified from entering into the competition, and is just going to impede the progress of the remainder.  What a great way to win friends and influence people!

These are two men who appear to have the clean personal slate that would make it difficult for the opposition to throw much personal dirt, and could have kept the focus on the issues and outright lies of the Democrat party during the last 20 years. They bring fiscally responsible policy success to the table.   Unfortunately, they both made up for their personal likability by making insurmountable policy and opinion missteps that will keep them from even getting close to a nomination to the national level.

Perhaps this is a bit early, and to those who wish to stay focused only on the coming conflict, I intend no stumbling block 8 days out.  However, I do believe this is germane to the ongoing saga of the mighty shift in American politics for the next years’ time.  It speaks to the endurance of the people, those who have given in every way they can, and are weary of the toil, just hoping for a good night’s sleep as soon as the harvest is put up before they must begin the next phase of the struggle.  And, in the manner of turning the freighter, taking miles and miles for the effect of turning the rudder to actually be seen in the changing vector of the ship, even though this historic election serves as turning the rudder, we will be hard pressed to soon see the directional alteration for which we have all been working.

I noted a post at HotAir today which I found particularly indicative of this elongated period of directional alteration, telling us all what we really have hoped wouldn’t be necessary, but just like many posts to the point here on RedState, will find impossible to avoid.  The inbred elitists of the country club Republican Party are moving quietly behind the scenes to thwart the will of the people and manoeuvre into position the heavy donorship to the party, in order to tie up the monetary commitments necessary (so they think) that will guarantee them the nomination in 2012 to the seat of the Big House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  Via AllahPundit at http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/24/quotes-of-the-day-492/:

“As the 2010 campaign draws to its raucous close, the Republican Party’s biggest donors are slowly beginning to choose sides, with some still looking for a strong alternative to a populist conservative movement that makes them uneasy.

“The big New York, Texas, California and Florida donors who traditionally play a key role in choosing the GOP nominee lined up behind George W. Bush in 2000 and, largely, John McCain in 2008.

“This year’s early favorite appears to be Mitt Romney, donor sources confirmed to POLITICO, who has already lined up quiet commitments from more than a dozen top names, among them billionaire David Koch and his wife, Julia, financier and former Goldman Sachs partner Lewis Eisenberg, New York Jets owner Woody Johnson and Ogilvy Government Relations Chairman Wayne Berman…

“‘Most long-standing donors are worried about a candidate, or multiple candidates, coming forward who are too extreme,’ said a major Republican donor with long ties to the party. ‘You’ve got a lot of people that don’t want to support the tea party movement.’”  *(underlining and italics mine)

It is going to take all of us, one small donor at a time, one day answering phones and making calls, one Precinct Committeeman slot filled with the conservative volunteer, one person walking their own neighborhood and knocking on doors, to muster up the groundswell of support and determination that it will take to march straight on through to November of 2012.  We have just made the first sustained skirmish in the much longer war; take a quick breath, get that good night’s sleep, and then it’s on to take the next hilltop, the next valley, cross the next river, until we have restored our America from sea to shining sea!

Well, here it comes, folks.  We are well into the season in which companies roll out the changes in the next year’s health insurance options.

A little late, as the HR folks on my call today acknowledged, but they are ‘dealing with such a huge volume of new regulation and cost changes’ that they have had a huge team (read all of the legal and accounting departments) pouring over the new rules for months.  It will entail some *reductions in coverage* and changes to our plans for fiscal year 2011, but they have done the *best they can do to cover the largest number of their employees for the best possible cost* and meet the new requirements.  They have not only tried to meet the costs and requirements of plan year 2011, but project what will work best into the next few years to cause the least disruption for their business.

We were informed that it would be up to us, the front line managers, to present the new plan changes in the *best possible* context–i.e. read the subtext:  Be happy you still have company sponsored and partially paid health insurance even if you are going to be cut in services and taxed on the amount we pay for you in addition to the part that is directly withdrawn from you paycheck!  Buried in the subtext is the fact that we are going to be paying more and taxed more, and getting less, and we have to smile and sell it to our staffs!  And, by the way, thanks Obama and the Congress for screwing us over, for all you saps that thought you were voting for better healthcare.

So, here it starts……

I just received my mail-in ballot and have been pouring over it with my parents as we decide how we want to vote for the slate of offerings in our sector of the liberal badlands of Arizona known as Tucson.  We debate and discuss, and for the very most part, agree on the details as we come to grips with the choices we have before us.

We will hold our collective noses and vote for McCain the Repugnant (I know, not to knock the primary winner in the general, but come on, Rodney? Not happening)  Of course, Jan Brewer, who may not have exactly the conservative cred that I would love to see at the helm in Arizona, but I like her stance on immigration and taking on the ‘O’ and the Injustice Dept. so she gets our votes.

The next slot is a real bright spot for us, in the rather bland sea of choices offered for consumption, a star in her own right, Ruth McClung.  Go Ruth!  She really shouldn’t be allowed to debate poor Raul without one hand and half her brain tied behind her back, he looks so bad next to her!  Just think; a real live rocket scientist in Washington!  Just what we have needed for so long, someone who really does appreciate the effort it takes to lauch something into space, instead of into the hopefully good wishes of the infidels on the Sinai penninsula as our current embarrassment at NASA seems fixated on doing.

The unfortunate memoriam I referenced in my title goes to the State Senate slot for District 27, where apparently the ineffective local  GOP party and MIA precinct committeemen couldn’t find a Republican or Conservative to run against the very liberal and entitled beneficiary of primogeniture moving over from ‘her’ seat in the House to one in the Senate.  I absolutely can’t believe that they couldn’t find even ONE qualified person who was willing to tilt at windmills, or who had the vision to give her a run for her ‘Democrat’ money.  So, we don’t have a choice for whom to vote for the opening, and since we don’t want to give our local Registrar the opportunity to disqualify our ballots, we don’t even dare write someone in for the slot.  Better not to check the box, and live with the loss…..

Two State Representative slots are open, and the 5 choices include 2 D’s, 1 R, 1 Green, and 1 weird party that I don’t recognize.  The R is Robert Compton; at least the Green is a local and highly respected long time businessman here in Tucson, so better than the other three.

Then, down ticket republicans, are Sec of State candidate Ken Bennett, Attorney General candidate Tom Horne, State Treasurer candidate Doug Ducey, State Mine Inspector candidate Joe Hart, two Corporation Commissioner candidates Gary Pierce and Brenda Burns, and finally to the Governing Board of the TUSD.

Here is where we can trim a sucker off the parent plant of political primogeniture in southern Arizona.  By voting for the most conservative of the field, Michael Hicks and Armand Salese, we have the opportunity to send the daughter of Raul ‘Boycott Arizona’ Grijalva back to the family compound.  She has been incumbent since 2003 and has been very vocal and active in promoting the ‘cultural studies’ and ‘La Raza‘ programs corrupting the youth with more Central and South American ties into cultural ghettos for the Democrats’ and Left’s exploitation.  Clean house here, Tucson!

We are voting ‘no’ on all the incumbent judges to send a message, whether or not they totally deserve it.  By not taking a stand for the rule of law and the Constitution they have doomed themselves to the level of rubber stamp for the corrupt and lazy lot who currently are running the City into the ground.  Let’s get some who stand out for their shining example, instead of this wishy-washy left squish.

And, finally, in tribute to CW and VB, this is only the first shot across the bow; lay in the ammo, stock the galley, load the cannons, and let’s storm the local precinct to take it back by filling the empty seats with concerned and motivated conservative PC’s!  Go Team!  Let’s keep the Gadsden Purchase and not let it become Aztlan for real!

As I was listening to conservative talk radio on my drive home this evening, the juxtaposition of a couple of items caught my attention.  I wasn’t really going to post on it, because I thought the information might be just so self evident, but then I reconsidered.

The two items were as follows:

First the recent Appeals Court decision on the decision by a federal judge to call a halt to federal funding for stem cell research which involved the creation and destruction of human embryos for simply that purpose, in response to the suit brought against those who would do this illegal thing.  The appeals decision was to allow the research to resume until the full process could review the case.  As posited in current federal law that federal funding of this research is illegal, and the lawsuit was brought to uphold the law and halt the funding for research which was therefore illegal.  The law was passed by Congress, and as far as I know, there have not been any successful challenges brought against it since it was passed.  The only thing which contradicts the law, is an unlawful executive order by POTUS.

The second case in contrast is the current state of SB1070, which has been halted in most of its major functions until the case can be heard fully in court, and a decision rendered on the *constitutionality* of it.  This is despite the oft debated but never refuted fact that it does in fact mirror exactly the federal version of the law, which again as far as I can recall, has never been successfully challenged in court or deemed *unconstitutional* to date.  It stands in addition to many state’s laws which match or exceed the federal law on this topic, which have also not been challenged, and so there is no outstanding question on the legality of their provisions.

Therefore, my *duh* moment went something like this:  Leftist/Statist Courts>Favorable Leftist Decision/Illegal or questionable Executive Order>Allow the *bad* thing to go on happening even if already illegal>until they/judges get around to making another decision about it.  Leftist/Statist Courts>Conservative/People’s Decision>Stop the *good* thing from being enacted>until they/judges get around to figuring out how to stop it.

NOVEMBER IS SO DARNED IMPORTANT! 

NEVER FORGET THAT THE SENATE CONFIRMS JUDGES!

Precinct Committeemen, Concord Project, GOTV, Whatever it takes!

Okay, how many of y’all caught John McCain on Sean Hannity’s show this evening?  Anyone?  Anyone?  The words of the segment were “Terrible”, “Awful”, to everything that Sean asked John.

Do you think the leaking and release of the 90,000+ military secrets should be labeled treason?, asked Sean.  All McCain was missing as he intoned “Terrible….Awful” was the hand-wringing that went with his facial expression and tone of voice.

Do you think the President’s handling of the war in Afganistan is flawed and puts our allies at risk? continued Sean in his friendly manner.  “Terrible…..Awful” intoned McCain as he talked all around the topic without ever addressing the question.

And on it went….I was saying “Terrible…..Awful” before McCain could even get the words out, as Sean asked question after question, raised topic after topic, and never got a single answer relating to any of his questions.

People of Arizona, wake up!  If John McCain had any relevance, he certainly does not have any left now if all he can do is wring his hands and intone “Terrible…..Awful” to every major problem we are facing in this country.  He is so fixated on not offending his Progressive friends and staying in the IN group with the RINOs and Country Clubbers, that he can’t give a “straight talk” answer to anything anymore.  Just once, John, give a real straight answer to a real straight question:  Why, oh why, should we send such a pantywaiste back to represent this state in the Senate?  We need someone to man up to the problems of this state and this time in history, and it isn’t John McCain.

P.S.  For everyone who is subscribing to the McCain has it in the bag and JD is nothing but a loser camp, I hope McCain makes y’all puke up the lukewarm pablum he feeds you for the next 6 years while he empties your wallets and steals your liberties; I would take a burnt steak and some feet in the mouth from JD over that any day!  At least we’ll know where he stands on issues, and have the pleasure of yelling at him if we need; McCain just runs from the great unwashed public to eat with the tax collectors.

For some reason, many here at Red State and elsewhere seem to feel that JD Hayworth’s challenge to John McCain is a lost cause, and are determined to jump on McCain’s bandwagon while simultaneously disregarding his penchant for turning on the very folks who support him.  Their reasoning leaves me significantly puzzeled, but they are welcome to their opinions.  I am curious about other considerations than why someone would not want to replace McCain…..

John McCain, on the other hand, seemed to annoint JD Hayworth a worthy opponent even before JD made the official announcement that he would be running against McCain.  John preemtively started ads attacking JD before he was even an official candidate, and has spent more cash pounding the airwaves on a ‘less than stellar’ (to quote JD’s opposition) candidate than makes any earthly sense.

McCain looks like the boxer, who when he has his opponent (supposedly) on the ropes, redoubles his efforts to turn the face into unrecognizeable hamburger.  Doesn’t this seem over the top to anyone else?  I could understand a race that the pundits were calling as ‘close’, but not one where seemingly everything is over but the shouting (again quoting the JD opposition)….

Call me paranoid, but when the action is too lopsided, when it appears to be overkill, I start looking for a secondary purpose.  Either John McCain’s camp sees something that the pundits don’t see, or there is a hidden purpose for keeping up the brutal degree of pressure.  What does John McCain have to hide that necessitates his continued pounding barrage to keep the Hayworth campaign engaged in defense rather than going on offense?

What makes such extravagant expenditures necessary for the McCain camp?  What is hiding in the closet waiting for someone to just open that door, that they need to keep our attention away?  As someone famously said, “Follow the money”.  What business deals, what contracts for minerals, land, etc, what little tag-ons in legislation, what payments, what ethical issues, what exactly is causing John McCain to pour this kind of resource into a battle with someone who ‘doesn’t matter’, in a primary in a generally Republican state?  Disproportionite response is a red flag if ever there was one.  Call me cynical, silly, whatever you like, but if anyone has the ability to follow the threads, engage in some patriotic recon, maybe it would be better done before the primary election than after? 

I think, for the future of our country and the state of Arizona, that it would be better to unseat McCain and then to have 6 years to find an alternate to JD if necessary, than it will be to send McCain the wrecking ball back to the Senate to continue his 30 year history there, and to do whatever it is that he is attempting to distract us from seeing.