Posted on 10/15/2014 6:22:39 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
John McCain bursts out of the cloakroom and onto the Senate floor. His face red, he rips off his glasses and gets ready to pound a table. Senator Hothead is mad. Again.
"He just comes out and blows up every once in a while," says a congressional correspondent, who didn't want to be named. "You can almost see the steam coming out of his ears." (SNIP)
STROM THURMOND In January 1995, McCain was midway through an opening statement at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing when chairman Strom Thurmond asked, "Is the senator about through?" McCain glared at Thurmond, thanked him for his "courtesy" (translation: buzz off), and continued on. McCain later confronted Thurmond on the Senate floor. A scuffle ensued, and the two didn't part friends.
(SNIP)
ROBERT TORRICELLI Does a 1987 Supreme Court decision protect Indian gaming? Representative Robert Torricelli testified before a 1995 hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee that he'd read the decision in question and concluded it did not. "Well, read it again," McCain said, "because you didn't understand it if you read it. You couldn't have understood it if you did read it because your interpretation of it is flat-out wrong." Torricelli got in all of eight words before the hammer came down. "I'm running this committee hearing, Congressman Torricelli," McCain said. "And I will allow you to speak when you are requested to do so."
(SNIP)
Yet Democrat David Pryor of Arkansas kept voting against freeing McCain from the Senate's Keating Five investigation. "It was purely political," says McCain, who didn't speak to Pryor for nearly six years. Alabama's Howell Heflin got the same silent treatment.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonian.com ...
“The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine,” Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), also a senior member of the Appropriations panel, told the Boston Globe recently. “He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/04/gop-senator-on-president-_n_84785.html
I used to think of the country as having a deep leadership bench.
Think... John McCain, presidential candidate; Crazy Joe Biden, one heartbeat away from the Presidency; and (no adjectives needed) Barack H. Obama with the brass ring.
Times have changed.
McCain is nucking futz, but would STILL be a better _resident than we have now!
And with SARAH as a backup? No question.
I’ve met McCain several times and have been with him and his family.
He is f’ing crazy. Loony.
Seeing him next to his wife always made me laugh. He looks ANCIENT next to her.
The one Republican that I never voted for, for President..
1997???????
He’s not only nuts. He’s a traitor. There are a lot more former POWs who hate him than there are who like him.
I regret voting for him.
McCain: “It was all about the strawberries...” (rolls ball bearings between his fingers).
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