John McCain kicks Tea Party ass

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Today, John McCain lambasts the Tea Party on the Senate Floor

McCain expresses his fury at Tea Party lunatics

Today, GOP Sen. John McCain kicked the collective ass of the extreme right-wing. McCain expressed outrage about efforts to send America into a financial ruin. He said Tea Party plans would greatly damage an already-weak recoveryand mandate perverse actions in the face of recessions.

The well-seasoned senator schooled the freshman contingent on economic reality. Though he supports a BBA, McCain stood amazed watching the TP tantrums demanding that a BBA could pass in the Senate. He seems to feel that party extemeists want financial armageddon. Maybe some people who have only been in this body for six or seven months or so really believe that, he said. Such a belief, he said, is worse than foolish. That is deceiving

Frustrated by the sniping of conservative critics who oppose House Speaker John Boehner’s plan to raise the debt ceiling, the former Republican presidential candidate went on a tirade against conservative groups urging other House members to reject Boehner’s plan.

The Senator directed his ire directly on the extreme right. In an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal editorial, the senator stated:

Over here, we have individuals who believe somehow that there is still chance, at least in this Congress, to pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. Now, I will take back seat to none in my support of the balanced budget amendment. Thirteen times I voted for it. I will vote for it tomorrow. But what is really amazing about this is that some, some members are believing that we can pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution in this body with its present representation, and that is foolish. That is worse than foolish. That is deceiving.

Many of our constituents, by telling them that just because the Majority Leader tabled the Balanced Budget Amendment legislation, that somehow through amending and debate, we could somehow convince the majority on the other side of the aisle to go along with a balanced budget amendment of the constitution.
That is not fair to the American people, to hold out and say we won’t agree to raising the debt limit until we pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. It’s unfair, it’s bizarro. And maybe some people who have only been in this body for six or seven months or so really believe that. Others know better.

McCain was not finished mocking the TP:

The idea seems to be that if the House GOP refuses to raise the debt ceiling, a default crisis or gradual government shutdown will ensue, and the public will turn en masse against . . . . Barack Obama,” McCain said, quoting the Journal article. “The Republican House that failed to raise the debt ceiling would somehow escape all blame. Then Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced-budget amendment and reform entitlements, and the tea-party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor. This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell into GOP Senate nominees.

McCain’s admonition sparked responses from more moderate conservatives:

I think I should point out to anyone who uses the terms “Oduma”, “Dumbocrats”, “Repukes”, “Republicants”, “Libertards” or any variation … you sound like lower-class uneducated idiots. You think you’re being clever, but you’re not. Your opinion amounts to schoolyard name-calling…your not-so-clever name-calling makes you sound like a five-year old child throwing foot-stomping temper tantrum.

I am a republican but do not agree with how they [TP] are going about this. I am not sure who they think their supporters are but each one of the CEO’s of these companies that pay no taxes only get one vote come election time. It will be remembered when they cut all of the loop holes they are talking about getting rid of like mortgage interest, child deductions. I do not think that the very rich care about that, I can tell you as a middle class father of 5 I do and it would hurt my family.

Mr. McCain assailed the TP, calling their political logic “bizarro” and noting sarcastically that they have only been in office a short time. Whining TP Freshman Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), sponsor of the Senate’s BBA bill, actually wants America’s house to come down unless he gets his way.

Finally, the TP is being called to account for their actions. Whether or not one supports McCain, he nevertheless opened a dialog by which politicians could dismiss the Tea Party crackpots they are.

What do you think of McCain’s Senate address? Is this the beginning of the end for the lunatic fringe on the right?

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MikeCT
9 years ago

Maybe this will be the speech that does to the TP what Ed Murrow did to McCarthy. If enough of the mainstream Republicans wake up and dissociate themselves from the TP, maybe the party will start to recover.

Raymond Laplaca
10 years ago

John McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy, graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. In October 1967, while on a bombing mission over Hanoi, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. McCain experienced episodes of torture, and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer. His war wounds left him with lifelong physical limitations.

bsranch
12 years ago

Y’all are make too much of this John McCain has become the crazy old man that yells at everybody to stay off the lawn. Nothing more or less, a crazy old man. Well except for the fact that he is in the US Senate.
I think the thing we should worry about is that he is not the craziest person in congress, not the craziest by far.

Reply to  bsranch
12 years ago

No, McCain is not the craziest person in Congress. It scares the hell out of me.

12 years ago

Although he is right, I think it is political. He wants to be taken seriously again and he sees which way the wind is blowing.

Bradley Scott
12 years ago

Anything he does to further divide the GOP, I view as a good thing. You go John! I only hope his comentary remains inflamatory enough that he neither brings the tea partiers into the fold, or marginalizes them into irrelevence. A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Jess
12 years ago

This coming from the guy that chose queen of the teapartiers for his VP running mate, who allowed her to rile people up into a frenzy that continues today. He’s looking to leave a better legacy and as far as I’m concerned, it’s way too little way too late. I’m not convinced by anything comes out of old man get off my lawn’s mouth and won’t be giving kudos anytime soon, sorry.

Reply to  Jess
12 years ago

No need to apologize, Jess. I’d be an idiot to disagree with you. Choosing Queen Tea Party allowed all the rats out of the closet. Of course, this is political maneuvering, and I don’t trust him either.

I believe McCain was already suffering from PTSD. The 2000 election probably pushed him over the edge.

However, Meghan McCain intrigues me. She said the Palin Nomination Made Me Cry, ‘Who The Hell Is Sarah Palin?’

In 2008, McCain claimed she loved Palin, but we all know that was an election year. I guess she was playing good daughter.

No more.

She referred to Palin as “the Time Bomb,” laments her “disastrous” interview with Katie Couric, and said “She was turning into somebody who leaves a wake of confusion and chaos to the point of dizziness—wherever she went.”

On MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell show, Meghan stated: “I think it’s important to note that Michele Bachmann is not a leader… of the Republican Party [she’s] no better than a poor man’s Sarah Palin.

The New York Daily News states that, according to McCain, Bachmann too is also bringing drama and stress. “It is one rogue woman that can’t even look into the camera directly,” said McCain, referring to Bachmann, who spoke into the wrong camera during a rebuttal.

She calls herself a “progressive republican, touts the quality of MSNBC’s journalism, and told Larry King doesn’t like care about abortions or gay people having gay sex and getting married.

The Pee Party hates her.

12 years ago

Let’s hope so. I was thinking today that the tea party represents the Rsuh Limpbough faction of the repubs. They actually formed a political movement and elected a bunch of like minded people to national office! How incredible.

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