McCain Assails "Tea Party Hobbits"

[The Straight Story]

McCain Assails "Tea Party Hobbits"

The fiery, independent version of the Republican senator from Arizona took to the floor of the Senate Wednesday morning. Demanding “straight talk,” Mr. McCain accused conservatives of abandoning reason by opposing the House Republican leader’s plan to resolve the debt crisis.

Mr. McCain mocked Tea Party-allied Republicans in the House for believing — wrongly, he said — that President Obama and Democrats will get the blame for a default if Republicans refuse to increase the nation’s debt ceiling.

By that flawed logic, “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,” he said, quoting a Wall Street Journal editorial.

“This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell into G.O.P. nominees,” he jeered, referring to two losing Tea Party candidates for the Senate in 2010.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/john-mccain-vs-the-tea-party/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I'll never forgive McCain for turning Palin loose on us.

But I have to say, the phrase "Tea Party hobbits could return to Middle Earth" is pretty damn funny.

[sharp_stick]

3. +1

It's nice to see something imaginative come from that old bastard.

[truebrit71]

5. [phone]

nt

[Rabblevox]

2. Shouldn't that be "Tea Party Orcs"? Hobbits are nice, and care about their neighbors. /nt

[geckosfeet]

4. Yes. Quite slanderous to real hobbit-like folk.

[The Straight Story]

6. McCain was in the movie (pic):

"Nasty hobbitesses, they are trickys they are!"

[Rabblevox]

7. lol!

[Kaleva]

8. Is this the first time Maverick has spoken since the 2008 election?