McCain's absence will create a unique opportunity for President Trump to alter the course of our foreign and domestic policyIt is hard to estimate how much influence over U.S. domestic and foreign policy John McCain had. With his illness upgraded to a glioblastoma in his head,
the likelihood of his return to a policy position is unlikely.
As I predicted earlier this week, the severity of McCain’s health problems will inevitably usher in
a major power shuffle in Washington.
The Arizona senator’s absence creates
a unique opportunity for President Trump to alter the course of our foreign and domestic policy. From Iraq to Libya, Syria to Afghanistan and right up to Russia’s borders in Ukraine, McCain’s bloody paw prints are all over more than a decade of American foreign policy blunders.
With him gone the driving force is gone as well. Many who stood with McCain on these issues did so because Washington is the ultimate ‘go along to get along’ kind of place. And few, if any, in the Senate have his drive to continue the work.
Notice how quiet Lindsay Graham has been the last couple of weeks.Many will see the writing on the wall and kiss the ring of President Trump to avoid a primary challenge in the spring.
Once McCain is officially done,
appointing people just as bad as McCain to his influential seats on the Armed Forces and Foreign Relations Committee
will become the U.S. Deep State’s top priority.
The problem is, however, that Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell is now terminally wounded over his mishandling of Obamacare. So, McConnell will have little control over the process.
He’s looking back at what happened to John Boehner and seeing his future. McConnell tried to salvage his leadership with an Obamacare full repeal vote that failed.
And that is John McCain’s biggest legacy, one where ideology was more important than discussion. He stifled U.S. diplomacy to such a degree in recent years that
it pushed us to the brink of war with nuclear-armed superpowers.
https://lewrockwell.com/2017/07/no_author/dismantling-mccains-distastrous-legacy/
