It doesn't matter what it's titled! McCain runs to the Huffington Puffington ComPost and spews on about someone other than himself getting the media megaphone? The irony, the hypocrisy. That's rich, Senator!WashingtonSecrets: Elder Sen. John McCain, who this week engaged in friendly fire when he launched his "maverick" missiles at fellow Republicans seeking clarification on the administration's drone policies, has upped the ante, deriding Tea Party-backed GOP lawmakers as "wacko birds."
McCain, who hit the Senate floor Thursday to belittle Sen. Rand Paul's filibuster, which succeeded in getting an answer from President Obama that drones won't be used to kill Americans on U.S. soil, even suggested that the Kentucky senator and his allies, like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, don't represent the GOP mainstream.
"It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone," McCain told Huffington Post's Jon Ward in a story titled...
Maverick? Not so much. And no class to boot. You're just doubling down on stupid, Johnny.
Robert Laurie sums it up perfectly in the opening statement of his article over at Canada Free Press:
John McCain isn’t having a good week. His anti-filibuster tirades have destroyed the last shreds of his post-2000 election credibility, and he’s become the poster child for GOP members who seek to continue living in the party’s past.In other words, McCain, Graham and the like are washed up has-been's. Step aside. Articulate, young, non-establishment conservatives (actual ones, who aren't just using the word for campaign purposes) have captured the enthusiasm of ALL who believe this is what the Republican Party should be.
I need only quote El Rushbo today in describing these young turks...
"...the power structure there has been totally turned upside down, in the Senate and in Washington. Even members of the Drive-By Media are talking about how they sense something major has changed here. All it really was, and the reason why it stands out, one guy stood up and dared challenge the regime. When you boil it all down, that's what happened. That's how absent that kind of behavior has been. I mean, it's important it went for 13 hours, but still, somebody did it. Somebody challenged the administration and they're alive today to talk about it, and they're heroes. They're heroes."Indeed they are...keep it up, guys!
ADDENDUM I: Rush elaborates...
"So what’s happening here is that McCain and others are complaining that Rand Paul is out abusing Senate rules and is appealing to extreme, kooky Libertarians in their college dorms, while everybody else sees an assault on freedom and liberty and the economy and everything else taking place, and they see the Republicans sitting at the same table of the guy who’s doing it. Who are they siding with? And this has got the old bulls upset. So they go out and they dine with the architect of this disaster, who is intentionally inflicting pain on the American people via his sequester. That’s the point of it.
They go out and dine with this guy, who still will not tell them what he was doing when Americans were dying in Benghazi, for example. But he wants the photo-op, and they of course, listening to the Republicans, listening to their consultants, think that they’re making great gains by appearing bipartisan here, which is not what the people that vote for them want.
There has been such an upside down turning of the power structure. Our office is getting phone calls begging us not to lump certain Republicans in with the ones we’re criticizing. “Hey, don’t talk about me. I wasn’t at that dinner. Don’t talk about me. I came out and I stood up with Rand Paul.” There has been a major, major shift here. There’s more to it than you can see inside the power structure in Washington, inside the Republican Party. And for McCain now to come call these guys kooks and wackos illustrates exactly what’s wrong."
"Rand Paul was standing up opposing this, while these guys were out yucking it up with the architect of it all. You know, it's a great example of the Ruling Class and the Country Class, and the Ruling Class not liking what this Country Class Senator was doing."ADDENDUM II: And Levin wraps it up...
"John McCain is a disaster, a complete, unmitigated disaster. He should have retired, but he wouldn't, because his ego wouldn't allow him. Whether it's free speech (McCain-Feingold), whether it's securing our border in "comprehensive immigration reform," whether it's his aggressive interventionist foreign policy...when it comes to whatever rights he wants to confer on terrorists and so forth, the man is as wrong as he is right, and more often, quite frankly, he's wrong than right. And he wants to be heard, where ever there's a camera, where ever there's a microphone, he wants to be heard, he's heard. And as a politician...has there ever been a bigger moron, quite frankly?"
"But look, the guys not gonna change. He was reelected, this is his last term. He thinks he's an elder statesman. He's just an elder, and not a statesman in the least."
