McCain Faces Tough Questions About GOP Push To Repeal 14th Amendment

[cal04]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/mccain-dodges-14th-amendment-repeal-questions.php

The GOP push to change the Constitution to eliminate so-called birthright citizenship is already causing problems for some of its own members. Case in point: John McCain.

In the final moments of a morning press conference about the stimulus, cohosted by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), McCain asked for one final question from reporters...which happened to be about the 14th amendment and birthright citizenship. McCain abruptly ended the press conference.

"We're talking about the stimulus right now," McCain said, before darting off to the elevators down the hall from the Senate studio, where he again declined to take a question. Reporters eventually caught up with McCain in the basement of the Capitol, where he was walking toward to the man-operated train connecting the Senate with the Russell office building.

TPMDC asked, "Do you support the Minority Leader's push for hearings into the repeal of birthright citizenship?"

"Sure, why not?" McCain said briefly.

"Do you support the idea itself?"

"I support the idea of having hearings," McCain said.

"Do you have a problem with the 14th amendment?" another reporter asked.

"You're changing the constitution of the United States," McCain said. "I support the concept of holding hearings."

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. McCain has to see what Hayworth says about it before he has formulated his opinion.

[AspenRose]

2. And maybe consult a poll or two

He goes where the wind blows. No moral compass. Asshole.

[spanone]

3. he has to consult his political guru...ms palin

[tridim]

4. Instead of "build the damn wall" at the border..

McCain should just start building walls around people, especially pregrant immigrants. Then, when their child is born it will already be walled in. Done and done.

[Gman]

5. The citizenship clause was put in the 14th to overrule Dred Scott

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_Clause

So it's only natural that Republicans would want to repeal it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford

Therefore, Republicans want to reinstate the Dred Scott decision.

[Bitwit1234]

6. So why doesn't someone look into the legality of Mitt Romney

if they say the 14th Amendment should be thrown out or amended. Remember this his grandparents moved to Mexico and gave up citizenship to protest the fact that polygamy was made illegal. Mitt Romeny's father was born in Mexico. NOW since he was a child of non citizens how come when he filed to run for the presidency back in either the 30's or 40's a resolution went before congress. In that resolution congress said that Romney was indeed a citizen of the US. Because his parents had not really given up citizenship. WELL ROMNEY WAS BORN IN MEXICO...and if he was illegal than how about Mitt Romney. He was a child of an illegal immigrant. How come he can be a citizen of the US>

Cause the birthers say Obama was not born in the US and can't be a citizen even tho his mother was a citizen.

BUT THIS CRAP WITH ROMNEY IS OK...HE'S A REPUBLICAN AND WE SHOULD ASK NO QUESTIONS. Somebody explain this.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. Mccant is really too feeble to be making policy anymore. He's senile

[ThomWV]

8. Who can respect a Senate that houses such self-serving imbeciles?