“John McCain” on The Daily Caller

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain says the United States should find ways to help the Syrian people under siege from President Bashar Assad, without putting American “boots on the ground.” (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Intent on sparing the Pentagon from deep spending cuts, top Senate Republicans on Thursday endorsed legislation that targets federal workers, reducing their ranks and freezing their salaries, to avoid the pain of automatic cuts for one year. (more)

Republican voters need a therapeutic slap across the face. (more)

Be honest: Don’t you wish you were important enough to justify a team of investigators writing a 200-page book just to torpedo your career? (more)

If you think you’ve already heard everything there is to know about Mitt Romney, think again. A 200-page document that appears to be Sen. John McCain’s entire 2008 election-year opposition research file on the former Massachusetts governor hit the Internet with a vengeance Tuesday evening. And it’s an eye-opener. (more)

Republican Sen. John McCain appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman” on CBS Thursday night, and just like his daughter did the night before on NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” the Arizona senator offered some less-than-favorable views on the current state of the Republican Party. (more)

On Wednesday’s “The Laura Ingraham Show,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, fresh off his fourth-place finish in Iowa, floated the possibility that he could work with former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum to defeat former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the race for this year’s GOP presidential nomination. (more)

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich repeatedly decried the use of negative campaigning, especially last night, when he blamed negative ads by rival Mitt Romney’s super PAC for his poor showing in the Iowa caucuses. Gingrich has vowed that neither he, nor anyone associated with him, would engage in that type of campaigning. (more)

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Mitt Romney on Wednesday accepted an endorsement from Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, as he pushed for an overwhelming victory in next week’s New Hampshire primary. (more)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Republican official says that 2008 GOP nominee John McCain is endorsing Mitt Romney for the party’s 2012 nomination. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain said Monday the world is better off now that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has died and predicted that the dictator would join the likes of Adolf Hitler “in a warm corner of hell.” (more)

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain told The Daily Caller that troops on the U.S.-Mexico border are “still needed” to deal with the “very serious problems” of “drug smuggling” and people “dying in the desert.” (more)

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is offended “as hell” over automatic cuts to the defense budget, suggesting that the American people “fire” Congress and “keep the soldiers.” (more)

James Madison warned that “the means of defense against foreign danger historically have become instruments of tyranny at home.” (more)

The Senate has rejected an attempt to remove language from the National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the administration to place terror suspects in military detention indefinitely. (more)

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain expressed disappointment Monday with comments made by several Republican presidential candidates over the weekend during a debate hosted by CBS News and the National Journal. (more)

China is dumping counterfeit electronic parts into the Pentagon’s supply chain, two senior lawmakers alleged on Monday, putting U.S. troops at risk and undercutting the American economy. (more)

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain told an audience at the World Economic Forum in Jordan on Sunday that the United States may consider military intervention in Syria akin to the NATO-led intervention that toppled Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi. (more)

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio says he hasn’t formulated an opinion on Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain’s “9-9-9” tax reform plan, but praised the Georgia businessman for stepping up and offering a specific proposal to reform the tax system. (more)

The Obama administration surprised a lot of folks late last week when it announced it was sending around 100 American troops to Uganda to help regional forces take out Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony. But could the United States ultimately end up sending more troops? (more)