John McCain plays while the Republic burns
PintoNag and Ex-PH2 send us links to an NBC news story about John McCain who was busted playing poker during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria yesterday. His response?
Yeah, f*cknut, it is a scandal. Paying attention during a Senate hearing (regardless of the length of the hearing) is the reason we allow you a salary and a fat pension. How about earning it. If I was supposed to be doing what I get paid for, but I was playing poker on my phone instead, I’d get fired. You, however, get to laugh about someone making a big deal about your piss-poor behavior.
I agree with Matt Drudge, who could possibly vote for Republicans after their performance this week?
Category: Congress sucks
He obviously knew how he was going to vote before he went in, but has to maintain the image of Congressional kabuki for the benefit of his constituents and the press. Thanks again, Arizona, for putting this douche back into office.
Please don’t blame me I voted for the other guy.
I voted for someone else, and it was not bodaprez.
Ha
I live in Arizona. I used to like McCain’s maverick attitude. Now I want the senile old turd to retire and live happily ever after on Cindy’s money. I’d be happy to have that retirement plan
What the fucking hell… not sure which is worse, him playing the game during the hearing or his arrogance about getting caught!
That 3 hour hearing was about committing young men and woman of this nations military to WAR asshole!! Oh sure as hell the outcome of that hearing was already known before it even began, with the backroom deals and out of the public eye negotiations to carve up some extra pork barrel pie..
Too pissed to type any more.
I admire Senator McCain’s Military Service, but his conduct as a US Senator? The most polite adjective I can come up with right now is abysmal. If this si how he continues as a Senator, he might not have been that good of a President, I wonder if George Soros doesn’t manipulate him the way he does B. Hussein Øbama? It’s that, or too many years of DC Kool-Aid has given him irreparable brain damage!!
Anyone besides me see those red hands raised in the air behind sleazy kerry while he was making his spiel to the Sendate committee?
I have a screen capture of it. It’s priceless.
I like to tell people I never voted for him…I voted for Sarah Palin.
I ache when McCain behaves like this.
He was, by any definition, a HERO.
Now is simply pitiable.
mccain or j.d.ignorant southern white trash heyworth what a choice!
The worst part of all this is not the poker, or the tweet, it’s the fact that the stupid jerk voted yes to pass the resolution out of committee. He even amended it to give the president the power to change the balance of power on the battlefield. If that don’t say “boots on the ground”, nothing does. Tomahawks will lead to advisers, SpecOps, invasion, and finally insurgency. It’s too bad the Nor Viets hit him on the head too many times.
It is disgraceful. Imagine if when he were a commander what he would have done to one of his sailors who had gotten caught playing poker while on watch?
@12 – Roger, I don’t think they hit him on the head quite enough.
At least he wasn’t counting up budweiser sales in arizona! He and cindy distribute anhauser-budweiser beer wholesale in arizona!
DEAD POLITICIANS
NOT DEAD SOLDIERS
This is one of the reasons we need term limits. Something in the air and water in DC rots the morals of politicians, if they had them to begin with.
#17 Common Sense
Don’t limit the terms. Limit the pay and benefits. The terms will then limit themselves.
As fof McPain, he’s gone from “maverick” (ha! that’s a joke), to brain dead DemonRat lapdog. One more proof that liberalism is a progressive (see what I did there?) mental degenerative disease.
Just goes to show that even old people can be rude cunts with technology. The arrogance and feeling of entitlement that he doesn’t have to listen or be attentive while others are speaking speaks volumes for his lack of character.
Shit. I’ve been saying that for years! I couldn’t hold my nose hard enough to vote for McShitstain.
Since I know this isn’t going to get any kind of a rise out of you but, during 2008 and 2009 a small group of people worked their asses off to find a rock solid, conservative candidate to run against McCain. Have you ever looked for the proverbial needle in a hay stack? Several were screened and the one selected as it turned out didn’t make it off the stating line. McCain is beyond well financed, the majority of voters in his district only know they voted for the man that kept water flowing to their farms, told them he was against Obamacare, yada, yada and a flip-flop illegal immigration “stand”, Arizona was sold down the Gila River anyway. Got to tell you what was heartbreaking about it all, the campaign ads his crew ran were real weak hush toned like McCain speaks. I fought the urge to gag a couple of times while listening to them.
@21 – Because it was HIS TURN, dammit! That’s how the GOP does politics nowadays. In 2008, we had a guy who lost to Bush (who was immensely unpopular by the time the 2008 election came around), because it was his turn. In 2012, we had the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Bush AND to Obama, because it was HIS TURN, dammit!
Everyone knew Mittens was going to get the nod. He’d been campaigning since 2006. There wasn’t even a question. Hell, Obama started attacking him before he even officially “announced,” and he was referred to as the frontrunner in establishment circles before he participated in a single debate.
I respect McShitstain’s military service, and I thank him for it. But as I mentioned on my blog – he’s just a supercilious, arrogant, worn out colostomy bag.
John McCain is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.
Oops I meant to say Raymond Shaw.
@22, Nicki, it was that way in 1996 when the GOP nominated Bob Dole to run against “Blowjob Willie” as well.
John McCain’s military service and, most especially, his years of tortuous captivity as a POW, influence our view of him as a US senator. We would much prefer to either remain silent about him or, better still, to make glowing comments about his ‘work’ in Congress. But reality bites. He is a politician and has been for over 30 years. When he ran for president, many of us took umbrage (and rightly so) when lefty journalists and blogsters attempted to discredit his military record and put a spotlight on unhappy aspects of his personal life while purposefully ignoring the many questions regarding obamaman. Thus, we came to his defense, putting many of us more securely in his corner and blinding us to his shortcomings. But reality bites. We will still defend his military service, of course, and we will do so not with platitudes but with sincerity. He deserves that. But the country deserves something of us too, and that is to call a spade a spade when it comes to McCain’s “service” as a US senator. In that regard, I have nothing good to say about the guy’s leadership. Nothing. I would rather he sit silently in future hearings and play poker on his phone. It has come to that. It hurts me (as it likely does you) to see him a pitiful lapdog for the administration while his handlers pretend him to be otherwise. Reality bites.
I have observed many committee hearings, mostly at the State level, but one national one, and I can tell you that McCain playing poker on his Iphone is the least overt show of disinterest that I have seen. I have watched lawmakers eat breakfast, read the newspaper, texting, etc. all while people were testifying in front of them. I even witnessed them get up and leave the committe room, because someone they didn’t agree with was coming up to testify.
So, I ain’t gonna bag on him for that, because his mind was already made up. What I will bag on him about is his fucked up attitude, when he got caught.
AirCav, the issue with Washington is that, once someone gets onto that train, he becomes addicted to it. No matter who it is, and no matter how benevolent their intentions were in the beginning, the power trip infests the egos of those who go there. They can’t stay away from it.
I don’t think the media is any less at fault for it than the people involved in it, either. The ‘media’, the press, pick the people they will side with and for whatever reason, still hark back to the 1950s and later, to Nixon.
Anyone who doesn’t fit their ‘meme’ is out of favor. Unless something happens to turn a favorite into scum, the press will stick with him to the bitter end. The ‘media darling’ thing is very real. It’s mostly driven by how much sex appeal someone has.
However, we all know that kind of thing doesn’t last. Reality is not pleasant. When these silly bitches come down off their high – and they will – they will land with a thump.
Frankly, I don’t see how on earth anyone can support or back someone as nitwitted as the bunch in charge right now, but then, I deal with reality They don’t.
Didn’t vote for him, didn’t vote for the current (P)resident in Chief…but, IMHO, that action should force some retribution.
@18– Limit the pay and benefits. The terms will then limit themselves.
Oh, if only that were true. Most of these guys are so rich already that their Senate/House salaries are little more than beer and gas money.
No, it’s the PERKS that come with the job, like San Fran Nan demanding (and getting) the 757 to fly home upon demand (as did Panetta, et al.) It’s people coming into office with barely two coins to rub together and leaving as multi-millionaires, if they ever leave (think of any number of people in both parties.)
He’s getting senile. It’s time for him to go. The damage he and other old white bastards like him are doing to the Republican party is probably already irreversable; actually, I think it’s already DRT.
No, when they “leave” office, they simply relocate down the beltway in a lobbyist position rarely if ever going home to live among the “lowly voters” they represented and screwed over. Prime example for me especially, is going to be Max Baucus(D), MT. Both of us were raised in Montana and knowing of him from local media and his trial lawyer days, I liked him and jumped right in both feet, helping spread the word.
Thirty years later, I could literally beat my head against a pine tree in the Pintlar Wilderness. Had no idea whatsoever how things were going to turn out, I moved to work in the oilfields after and never looked back. *face palm*
@30 – “getting”?
Same with my idiot Congresscritter, Carol Che-Pelosi. She comes back here just often enough to remind everyone she went to HS here and was a social worker for a couple of years in the town in which I currently reside, but conveniently forgets the interim 30 years she lived on Long Island.
Just like she loves playing up her “Vietnam-era veteran” husband, who did two years at Fitzsimmons AMC and never deployed.
And people wonder why I’d never consider running for office. It’s because I’d tell people what I think, and not what they want to hear. And I’d represent THEM.
@31 Heard dat. I had occasion to write to the MT congreescritters recently. Got form letters back from all of them, only peripherally addressing what I wrote them about. My votes for the last twenty years apparently went straight into a black hole, never to be seen or heard from again.
It’s the uncaring arrogance from all of them that makes me angry. None of them give a shit about us anymore. Not even one.
McCain is proof positive of the old adage about power, money, and corruption. When he was reprimanded for his part in the Keating Five the public should have known what they were getting, a f#cking crook. He and John Glenn got to skate because they were once honorable men and there was, I believe, some sympathy and respect for their prior lives as honorable service men.
That he’s an arrogant pr1ck was never in doubt, half the rep as maverick is really because he’s so f#cking contrary just for the sake of being contrary. It’s no surprise that he doesn’t pay any attention in the Senate, look at some of the stuff he’s been associate with in the Senate and you would almost have to draw the conclusion that he’s goofing off most of the time.
Just because he was a POW doesn’t make him honorable today, McCain left his honor behind when he left Vietnam. His actions and his words are proof of that every day.
Maybe it’s some parasite that they get infested with when they get there. After all, the Potomac is quite polluted and Arlington Mill Run used to drain into it. My apartment was up the hill from that nasty mess.
So it’s probably the water: they drink it when they get there and it rots their brains.
Well, here we go. Obamaman and Putin have met and the latter was reported to have intended to “engage” Putin regarding Syria. Well, somebody forgot to tell Putin ’cause Baracka just crapped himself. Seems the KGB veteran let the community organizer know that a Russian missile defense system may be installed in Assadland. Whoopsie.
Latter=Putin; Former=obamaman. Got it.
@38 Yeah, it could be the “red line” might have a red hammer and sickle attached at the end of it.
Bombing Assad — meh. Bombing Putin…maybe not such a great idea.
Ahhh-sooo. Good one PN. I never considered that the RED Line might be the one Baracka would prompt Putin to draw. I think you’re on to something there.
Hey, what if the Rooskies hit the button while Baracka is there? Does anyone think he would call down nukes on himself? Nah, I didn’t think so either.
Can’t say that I am all that concerned with the original reason for the feigned outrage over his messing on his phone during a meeting. It seems that we who don’t are seriously in the minority these days. You can’t have lunch or do anything else without at least half the folks there glued to their devices.
But do agree with the other sentiments expressed about him. He, and most of Congress, has long since passed his expiration date in DC.