General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore like "Aging Asshole Of The Senate"
John McCain is not a foreign policy expert, unless foreign policy expert is a new term of art for an old coot who is always wrong about any and every world event.
McCain is also firmly pro-corruption. Remember when he stopped investigating the Abramoff scandal in exchange for Grover Norquists support for his failed 2008 WH run? Oh, and then there was the Keating Five and the long, long list of many other scandals that will always follow him around.
Calling John McCain the Conscience of the Senate is risible.
I would have gone with Angry Old Man of the Senate or Raging Irrational ID of the Senate or Endless War Cheerleader of the Senate or Bitter Defeated-by-a black-man Crank of the Senate or Aging Asshole of the Senate or something else.
...............................
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/07/09/spit-take/
Demeter
(85,373 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)or identify him as what he actually is, the words will upset someone here at DU, dont wanna do that.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)My conscience has never prodded me to sing laughingly about bombing a nation made up of young people held in check by an oppressive government of old religious guys.
If we all had a tiny devil and angel on our shoulders, he'd be the tiny devil, not the angel.
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Older than shopping carts.
Things younger than John McCain.
Some are surprising.
And I am older than dirt.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)if he had become President and then died ... has no conscience and only wanted to win at any cost.
pleinair
(171 posts)"a new term for an old coot who is always wrong about any and every world event." Too true, kpete--and this applies to most of the talking heads on the Sunday shows.
this old HuffPo article details the workings of the Washington Examiner, a free, daily right-wing tabloid published by right-wing 1-per-cent-ers for the sake of their own vanity and craving for influence: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terry-krepel/right-wing-tilt-drives-wa_b_191379.html
lame54
(35,292 posts)"Why the hell is he still in the senate?"
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)Staph
(6,251 posts)If you search the Interwebs, three other names pop up as "the conscience of the Senate" -- Philip Hart (D-Michigan from 1959 to 1976), Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia from 1959 to 2010) and Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts from 1962 to 2009).
These three gentlemen were able to reach across the aisle, to stand on their own principles and to stand up to their own party when they believed the party was wrong.
Tell me again how John McCain deserves that title?