McCain erupts: Conservatives are lying to America (Yeah... we know Jack-Ass)

[TalkingDog]

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So the debt limit debate has come to this: John McCain, who you may recall was the GOP’s 2008 standard bearer, is now openly accusing conservatives of actively misleading America with their completely unrealistic demands, which he labeled “deceiving” and “bizarro.”

In a seminal moment in this debate, here’s some video of McCain on the Senate floor today, unleashing an angry tirade at conservatives who are still holding out for a balanced budget amendment as part of any compromise on the debt ceiling. McCain accused them of “deceiving” America into believing such a thing can pass the Senate:

[sasha031]

1. once upon a time McCain was a decent Senator

he voted against the Bush tax cuts in 2001

[TalkingDog]

3. I will agree with you there. I just hate how decent politicians

turn into idiots at the chance to "run the country".

What respect I have goes out the window they start contorting themselves into impossible knots.

$20 hookers have more self-respect.

[MindandSoul]

8. Yes, there was a time I respected this guy. . .until 2008.

But, maybe he finally sees the light and is eager to find his integrity again?

I hope so! He is getting old. . .doesn't have that much time to reconnect with his self-respect.

[Angry Dragon]

9. I do not feel he will run again, so he can say what he wants

[Gabi Hayes]

2. does this mean he's on, or off, his meds again?

[Drale]

4. Seems like he's trying to get in good with the Democrats

because he sees the Super Majority coming in 2012.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. McCain certainly listened too much to his fringe right advisors

during the election. The moment that said it all, however, was when Palin wanted to give her own concession speech, and he told her that he would not under any circumstances allow such a circus. It took losing badly for McCain to recover some shred of decency that he'd squandered throughout the campaign.

In this instance, McCain is only making a pragmatic point: there's no way in hell a Balanced Budget Amendment of any kind is going to pass the Senate, just as there's no way in hell an 80% revenues/20% cuts split deal is going to pass the House. To continue to make an IMPOSSIBLE result a condition precedent to raising the debt ceiling is deeply dishonest: they should just admit that they refuse to raise the debt ceiling and be done with it. It's like me saying I'll pay you $30 on Saturday if my two year old recites Sanskrit poetry from memory.

[ThatPoetGuy]

7. McCain showed some decency in his campaign.

The woman at his rally who said Obama was a Muslim, and McCain said no he's not, he's a family man. The audience booed.

I know some on the left objected to McCain contrasting "Muslim" and "family man," but it was spontaneous and not thought-out in advance, and besides, when the loons say "Muslim" they mean un-American, they mean terrorist, they mean boogeyman.

Obama's moment of exceptional decency in the campaign came when an interviewer asked him to comment on Bristol Palin's out-of-wedlock motherhood at seventeen. It was a perfect opening for a candidate to mouth a platitude and slam his opponent. But he said, you know, my mother had me when she was eighteen.

[judgegblue]

6. McCain and the repubs had no problem with the teabaggers

When they were making life miserable for Obama during the health care debate. Now they are an embarrassment and a threat to their keeping control.