McCain, Cornyn Engage in Heated Exchange (can you say F___?)

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) hasn't spent much time in the Capitol this year as he seeks the GOP presidential nomination. But one of his rare appearances this week provided a pretty salty exchange with a fellow Republican.

During a meeting Thursday on immigration legislation, McCain and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) got into a shouting match when Cornyn started voicing concerns about the number of judicial appeals that illegal immigrants could receive, according to multiple sources -- both Democrats and Republicans -- who heard firsthand accounts of the exchange from lawmakers who were in the room.

At a bipartisan gathering in an ornate meeting room just off the Senate floor, McCain complained that Cornyn was raising petty objections to a compromise plan being worked out between Senate Republicans and Democrats and the White House. He used a curse word associated with chickens and accused Cornyn of raising the issue just to torpedo a deal.

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McCain, a former Navy pilot, then used language more accustomed to sailors (not to mention the current vice president, who made news a few years back after a verbal encounter with Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont).

Read more: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/

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Well, he'd written off the "Family Values" voters anyway...

[Deja Q]

1. McCain wrote everyone off a long time ago. He's now the circus clown.

And he gets paid more than $50/hr to be it, I suspect.

If he keeps this up, we'll want him to BE the nominee. Not since Reagan will have all states but one vote the other way...

[David__77]

14. He'd be easy to paint as a total lunatic.

That's one benefit of his potential but unlikely nomination.

[AlCzervik]

2. i say they just have a cage match. I don't care who wins just so long as i

can watch it.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. FU...Cornyn and McCain.

I knew you could!

[Straight Shooter]

4. cheney, mccain, wolfowitz, and bush saying "stop this shit" with his mouth stuffed full of food.

The GOP is like an elementary playground, the tough kids all trying to out-potty-mouth each other.

[Endangered Specie]

5. "He used a curse word associated with chickens"

Im drawing a blank on this one... "chickenshit"??

[karlrschneider]

6. I'm thinking maybe a male chicken....and a vacuum cleaner...?

:rofl:

[Endangered Specie]

7. oooh, well maybe that WOULD make him more appealing

to the morals/values crowd

[AlCzervik]

8. maybe Chickenhawk has been added to the cussword list?

[kirby]

10. No, Cluck You!

[BlueStater]

11. Cock?

:shrug:

[Ishoutandscream2]

9. Well, I guess that fucking idiot Cornyn has one thing on McCain

Cornyn always has been, and always will be, the ultimate insipid Bushbot. McCain was at one time the so called maverick of the party. Now he's just a shilling whore who placed his last wager on the losing horse.

[CreekDog]

12. Score 1 for McCain

That he told off Cornyn just shows that he has not completely lost it.

Presidents tend to have quick tempers and thin skins. Yes, the job calls for otherwise, but the only ones that can actually get elected are always trying to look good (always trying to get the jump on criticism) and quick tempered and easy to slight because they have fabulous memories of people that helped them and didn't help them. Those politicians that can do this seem to ascend to higher office --they have lots of chits to call in, so to speak. It is of course, more than that.

But this article doesn't make me think McCain is unfit, Cornyn is the most insipid idiot in the Senate --and that's quite a feat! Not telling him off would not be a badge of honor.

That said, obviously there are problems with McCain and I wouldn't vote for him, but not for the silly reason mentioned in the article, but for substantive reasons such as foreign policy and domestic policy differences.

[PBS Poll-435]

13. Cornyn is an absolute DIPSHIT.

I can't wait for Barbara-Ann Radnofsky to kick his ass next year.

[opihimoimoi]

15. Death Match...Death Match....in the Cage In the Cage they must go....

[TankLV]

16. Cocksucker to cocksucker...

take's "mano a mano" to new meanings...

[Eurobabe]

17. Granted Cornyn is a KoolAid sucker, but he's right about McCain

some of these people campaigning forget whose business they are doing -- missing votes left and right (no pun intended). :shrug: