Recently in John McCain Category

If there is an afterlife, where the deeds done during one's time on earth are the basis for either reward or punishment, I wouldn't want to be one John Sidney McCain. His payment for unleashing upon an unsuspecting country the natural disaster known as Sarah Palin will surely be severe, and deservedly so.To use a comparison to another ongoing national tragedy, Sen. McCain drilled a well in a remote area without any means of shutting...

Any time anything passes in the Senate by a vote of 96-0 I'm suspicious. Those numbers are usually reserved for meaningless proclamations declaring 'National Be Kind to Puppies and Kitties Day.' But such a vote took place yesterday on Sen. Bernie Sanders' amendment to audit the Federal Reserve. Sanders' original amendment would have required the Fed to submit to regular audits, but the watered-down version passed yesterday is for a one-time audit with a specific...

I heard something on NPR this morning that irked me, to say the least.Since PBO took office over a year ago, there are still some 200 or so positions that are to be filled by his appointments. He has named people to these positions--don't misunderstand--but apparently there seems to be a little problem in getting the various Director-level folks into these positions. The little problem is ... partisan politics on the part of the Republicans.Positions...

***Updated December 7, 2009   Please note this blog describes events and behaviors that could be disturbing to some.  The headline is the truth.  Today, Senator Al Franken took to the Senate floor to introduce an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill preventing funding companies that do not offer their employees recourse against companies for condoning, hiding, and threatening rape victims.  You probably remember the story of Jamie Leigh Jones, the 19 year old...

To those of us who have been around the blogs for about the last 18 months this data from Public Policy Polling should come as no surprise:"PPP's newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting that he won it legitimately...Overall 62% of Americans think Obama legitimately won the election to only 26% who think ACORN...

Thanks a lot, Senator McCain. Prior to August 29, 2008, a date which will live in infamy, few people outside of Alaska had ever heard the name Sarah Palin. Even fewer had been subjected to the inane ramblings which originate somewhere inside that vast, barren, wasteland known as her mind. She was tucked safely away, thousands of miles from an unsuspecting country, hunting moose and being a hockey puck mom. But you just couldn't leave...

For some inexplicable reason, Sen. John McCain was a guest on one of the Sunday news shows again yesterday, this time CNN's State of the Union. As Steve Benen at Washington Monthly points out:"For those keeping score, this will be McCain's 14th Sunday morning appearance since President Obama's inauguration in January. That's 38 Sundays, for an average of a McCain appearance every 2.7 weeks...Not bad for a senator in the minority, who isn't in the...