Posted on 02/07/2006 9:09:17 PM PST by presidio9
In case you weren't paying attention, since yesterday there's been a very public war of words between the Senate's two most hyped members, Barack Obama and John McCain, over lobbying reform.
Rather then tell the entire backstory, which you can read here and here, I'll make three points.
1. McCain's lobbying reform bill is incredibly weak compared to the Democrats "Honest Leadership Act." That's why only two Senate Democrats, Joe Lieberman and Bill Nelson, have signed on.
2. As Josh Marshall noted today, it was McCain who assured anxious Republicans that his Indian Affairs Committee investigation of Jack Abramoff wouldn't touch any prominent elected officials in his own party, including Tom DeLay.
3. McCain's a political opportunist. He only became a "reformer" after he was implicated in the Senate's Keating Five scandal. And as my profile of him last November made clear, there's no greater opportunity than the Presidency in '08. Which helps explain why he's acting like such an ass.
Yes it is.
I had almost that exact comment as a subheading, then I decided to let the story stand on its own.
You mean McCain vs Osama?
Hillary gotta' better chance than McPain, and that ain't sayin' much. (Brokeback Talk For Dummies).
I can't believe I would agree with The Nation but they have McCain's number.
BarHack Oblama is creepy. He's the Stepford Senator. He's a robot. Wind him up, watch him speechify.
I can only hope for the mutual destruction of John McCain and Barack Hussein.
You can please and appease the lib MSM for 10 years, but the first time you cross them they'll call you a Bush loving, Hitler worshiping racist who owns 1000 oil refineries that kill poor people.
10 years of hard work... gone.
That's Osa Bama, er, ahh... Obamma Sama, errr, ahhh... Osama Bama, Shama or something like that.
We need to call Teddy. He knows.
LOL!
Hear him here:
http://www.fatboy.cc/thewizardofuhhs.htm
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