Ah, the lovable Old Johnny McCain is back! You remember him, don't you? The one the press fell in love with in 2000 (prior to his being pummeled by GWB), every Democrat's favorite Republican? Yep, that's him---Sarah Palin's Maverick Man is back in the Senate and he's wasting no time re-establishing his credentials as the Republican Republican's love to hate. He'll be idolized in the press in NO TIME!
Maybe President Obama will buy him a bus and send him on the road! Straight Talk and Hope!
I swallowed down hard and voted for John McCain in the presidential election. He's already making me regret it.
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Stop it. What is wrong with standing up for something you think is wrong? Isn't that what we should demand from our leaders? Opposing HRC's nomination was silly-if the GOP just stands up to protest everything the Democrats want to do, they're going to look ridiculous and it's not going to help the party recover any faster.
And do you really think he changed that much, or do you think perhaps that since he's now been defeated, the press can be kind to him again?
Stop it? Did you say stop it? Why, there's a novel approach.
No one is suggesting that John McCain shouldn't "stand up for what he thinks is right". That he does so against his own party, publicly, with so much GLEE is my problem.
The GOP isn't just standing up to protest everything the Democrats want to do....there are serious questions as to her ability to do the job she's paid to do while her husband's foundation is funded by those with whom she is to do business.
As for the press treatment, they turned on him for many reasons, not the least of which was his veer to the right. Now that he's back to being whatever he wants to be, they love him.
I am glad that Cornyn stood his ground. In many other areas of the professional world, when people who had doubts didn't speak up forcefully enough or were cowed by those in power into not rocking the boat, bad stuff has happened. Granted, the decision to confirm Sec'y Clinton may not have immediate critical implications, but maybe Cornyn is right and the conflict of interest will sow the seeds of problems that won't bear their sour fruit for years to come.
Silly is in the eye of the beholder. In 1998, the head of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Brooksley Born, warned pretty much everyone of the coming storm regarding derivatives in the absence of greater oversight and regulation. Everyone else, Greenspan and Rubin among them, was giddy (sound familiar) over them and poo-pooed her concerns. I needn't remind you where that led us.
Before you dismiss this as an apples and oranges comparison, please recognize my point. When we squash dissent because of group think, post-coronation euphoria, etc., we make the system a little weaker and set ourselves up for a fall later on.
At the risk of committing group-think myself, very well-said Thairish.
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