McCain's Broken Promise to Aid Obama in Ending Gridlock

[steven johnson]

After losing to Obama, Mcain pledged to work with Obama to "fix up the country." That was months ago and really inconvenieny when what's left of the Republican party has moved far to the right. McCain: I will help Obama fix America

I guess we are going to have to send out a search party to round up the maverick.

With hope for change dissolving into gridlock, it’s clearly time for a maverick, someone who has worked across the aisle and put Country First during his entire public service career. That would be Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the guy who lost to Obama and promised not six months ago in his concession speech to “do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face.” Two weeks later he was meeting with Obama and again pledging the same cooperation.

But McCain can’t make it to the table this time. Fresh from defeat in the presidential campaign, he is preparing to fend off a challenge from the right in his primary election next year. Essentially, he’s back on the campaign trail, so don’t expect any legislative compromising. McCain’s opponent founded the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and is criticizing McCain’s votes for “reckless bailout spending,” as well as his record of “opting to hold our nation’s border security hostage to his amnesty schemes.” McCain won’t be sticking his neck out on immigration should it actually come up again, and he is staying awfully quiet on healthcare. In a speech on energy at the Reform Institute in Washington this week he blasted Obama’s cap-and-trade plan as “irresponsible” and “ill-conceived,” criticizing the Obama administration repeatedly throughout the speech.

Perhaps the most dramatic issue on which McCain fought President Bush and his party was that of torture, asserting that even useful information gleaned from such tactics cannot justify them in light of the damage they produce to the reputation of the United States. But this week McCain found fault with Obama’s decision to release the memos depicting those now-prohibited interrogation tactics. McCain called the release “a serious mistake.”

Perhaps the most dramatic issue on which McCain fought President Bush and his party was that of torture, asserting that even useful information gleaned from such tactics cannot justify them in light of the damage they produce to the reputation of the United States. But this week McCain found fault with Obama’s decision to release the memos depicting those now-prohibited interrogation tactics. McCain called the release “a serious mistake.”

McCain MIA

[geckosfeet]

1. Oh come. It is considered good mavericky form to say you will do something then turn

around and do something completely different.

It is quintessential maverickyness.