McCain's message on Trump: 'We don't answer to him. We answer to the American people'

[mfcorey1]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mccains-message-on-trump-we-dont-answer-to-him-we-answer-to-the-american-people/ar-AAr5ZIw?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain is back, returning to Washington with a message for his colleagues in the age of President Donald Trump.

McCain picked up Friday where he left off, before going home to Arizona to begin cancer treatment, insistent as ever that Congress must exercise its role as a check on executive power, even if that means going against the leader of his own Republican Party.

"Congress must govern with a president who has no experience of public office, is often poorly informed and can be impulsive in his speech and conduct," McCain wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Post.

"We must respect his authority and constitutional responsibilities. We must, where we can, cooperate with him. But we are not his subordinates. We don't answer to him. We answer to the American people," McCain went on.

"We must be diligent in discharging our responsibility to serve as a check on his power. And we should value our identity as members of Congress more than our partisan affiliation."

Congress resumes next week after a long summer recess, and McCain's comments, coming days after his 81st birthday, serve as a warning notice that the six-term senator shows no signs of retreating as he battles brain cancer.

[ck4829]

1. Yeah, we should start respecting his authority when his supporters respect the citizenship of those

'Other'-Americans they don't like very much.

I'll wait here for that to happen.

[Achilleaze]

2. You tell him Johnny

We don't need no stinking republican draft dodger in chief screwing over America again and again and again