A Cornucopia Of McCain Craziness

Senator John McCain waxes bold...
No, no.
Senator John McCain whacks his old...
Nah, too subtle.
Senator McCain cracks a cold...
Nope, not that.

Senator John McCain screeches batshit crazy anti-Trump innuendos while exposing himself to prominent European guests.

There, that's it.

President Trump’s sudden firing of FBI Director James B. Comey is bad for the country and will not be the end of the Trump-Russia affair, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told a group of foreign diplomats and experts Tuesday night. 

Although McCain did not directly accuse the White House of firing Comey to thwart the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible Russia ties, he did say that if that was the intention, it would fail.

McCain, clad only in his own fecal material, shocked his guests by implying that the lawful, legal actions of the President of the United States in exercising his Constitutional discretionary powers while heeding the advice of his duly appointed Cabinet ministers, were in reality a criminal conspiracy to conceal a James Bond/Spectre type takeover of the United States by Vladimir Blofeld.

“This scandal is going to go on. I’ve seen it before,” McCain told a meeting of the Munich Security Conference core group. “This is a centipede. I guarantee you there will be more shoes to drop, I can just guarantee it. There’s just too much information that we don’t have that will be coming out.”

Senator McCain's remark to the group first referenced a unicorn but was later amended (under McCain's protest) to refer to a centipede. McCain is deathly afraid of centipedes.

Likewise for the "There’s just too much information that we don’t have," remark which was originally transcribed as, "The information is just too damn high."

He called Trump’s actions against Comey “unprecedented” and said the position of FBI director has held special meaning in American public life dating back decades.

Of course Comey's termination was not unprecedented.  The July 1993 firing of FBI Director Bill Sessions occurred during the FBI investigation of the Whitehouse travel office scandal and Vince Foster's death the very same month. Senator McCain later clarified his use of the term "unprecedented" to mean "not within the last thirty days."

When quizzed about these discrepancies, Senator McCain attributed them to the presence of undigested corn in his stool.

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“Washington Cartel” Savaged By Ted Cruz

Is it true that Ted Cruz refrained from criticizing Donald Trump after the firestorm over his comments belittling John McCain’s war record to pick up some of The Donald’s support should he drop out of the race for president? 

In an interview with Bloomberg Politics Cruz said, "My view on John McCain is explicit and unambiguous. He's an American hero and he's a friend.  I'm not going to just take a stick to fellow Republicans or for that matter to Democrats.  In my time in the Senate I haven't impugned the character of Republicans or Democrats and I don't intend to start today."

In his March 23, 2015 presidential announcement speech, Cruz cited Ronald Reagan who popularized the Eleventh Commandment:  Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

On Friday, however, the gloves came off.  He accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of lying to his colleagues.

Elected to the Senate in 1984, McConnell has been labeled “one of the most corrupt members of Congress” by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). 

Cruz’s broadside of McConnell came after he set up votes on the controversial issues of the repeal of Obamacare and the reauthorization of the Export-Import bank. Though McConnell has personally spoken against the Ex-Im Bank’s reauthorization, Democrats said in June that he had agreed to schedule a vote on the bank in order to get highly divisive trade legislation passed.

“I asked the majority leader very directly: What was the deal that was just cut? The majority leader was visibly angry with me that I would ask such a question, and the majority leader looked at me and said, ‘There is no deal, there is no deal, there is no deal.’ Like Saint Peter, he repeated it three times,” said Cruz.

The bank’s reauthorization expired on May 31, 2015.  Ex-Im subsidizes innumerable export transactions with guaranteed loans to make exports cheaper for American products.  In March, two months before the reauthorization expired, the bank’s $100M cap had been reached.

Critics of the bank call it “Boeing’s Bank” because of its interventions in financial assistance to the aircraft manufacturer in selling planes to China, India and other nations thus allowing U.S. trade policies to be set by market-distorting foreign governments. The bank is only lightly constrained by the law that supposedly leashes it.

As Sallie James of the Cato Institute notes, government favors flow to the politically connected.  Favor-dispensing institutions such as the Export-Import Bank are dispensing incentives for private interests to develop lucrative political connections.

Are charges by Cruz that McConnell is “running the Senate in much the same manner” as Harry Reid did when he was Majority Leader true?  Hell yes.

“There is a profound disappointment among the American people because we keep winning elections, and then we keep getting leaders who don’t do anything they promised,” Cruz said. “We’ve had a Republican majority in both houses of Congress now for about six months…This Senate operates exactly the same, the same priorities.”

According to published reports, McConnell was not on the floor of the Senate during Cruz’s “outburst”.  When he learned about it McConnell barred Cruz from discussions regarding the National Defense Authorization Act in the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The full speech is here.

Bad At Political Theater?

I predicted in a previous post that press poodle turned host of Meet The Press, Chuck Todd, would not ask The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer about the scandalous stand-down order that resulted in the savage death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi.

Chuckles did ask one question that revealed the cold-bloodedness that so dominates his persona. 

TODD:  I got to ask, so—so during that vacation, you made the statement on Foley. You went and golfed. Do you—do you want that back? 

THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS COMMUNITY ORGANIZER:  You know, it is always a challenge when you're supposed to be on vacation. Because you're followed everywhere. And part of what I'd love is a vacation from… 

TODD:  Yeah, you want to… 

TWMDCO:  …the—the press and—and—because… 

TODD:  I promise you, 2 1/2 years, I think that happens. 

TWMDCO:  Because the possibility of a jarring contrast given the world's news, is always—there's always going to be some tough news somewhere—is going to be there. But there's no doubt that—after having talked to the families, where it was hard for me to hold back tears listening to the pain that they were going through, after the statement that I made, that you know, I should've anticipated the optics. 

You know, that's part of the job. And you know, I think everybody who knows me, including, I suspect, the press, understands that that you know, you take this stuff in. And—it—it's serious business. And—and you care about it deeply. 

But part of this job is also the theatre of it. A part of it is, you know, how are you, how, how are you, well, it's not something that—that always comes naturally to me. But it matters. And I'm mindful of that. So the important thing is, in addition to that, is am I getting the policies right? Am I protecting the American people? Am I doing what's necessary? 

And when it comes to the policies, when it comes to the actions we've taken, I have no higher priority than keeping the American people safe. I think I've done a very good job during the course of these last, close to six years, doing so. And I intend to continue to meet that responsibility or meet that duty, for as long as I have the privilege of holding this office.

Noah Rothman opines, “A charitable interpretation of Obama’s remarks would allow for the possibility that he was expressing his genuine regret for the hard-edged display that followed the Foley speech in an artless manner. Obama played pundit, as he often does, and sounded callous by making an assessment of the political implications surrounding what the public saw as a lack of empathy for those wounded by Foley’s execution. But the president’s implied scolding of the media for amplifying that criticism indicates that this interpretation of his remarks may be a bit too forgiving.”

Didn't "theater of politics" -- and then-Sen. Obama being "good at it" -- initially propel him at 2004 Dem National Convention?

— Ed Henry (@edhenryTV) September 7, 2014