Straight-Talkin’ Maverick John McCain
Awesome: John McCain and Joe Lieberman have been intertwined a lot over the last few years and here's another place where they share company- they are two of the three.
Heavily tilted towards the Republicans, despite Democratic control of the White House and Senate. And the media's crush on President John McCain continues despite his rejection by the electorate --.
Predictably, but nonetheless amusingly, nominal supporter of gay and lesbian rights and very sincere utter Republican hack Glenn Reynolds asserts that the repeal of DADT -- supported by every Demcorat.
Fred Kaplan is certainly right that McCain's current excuses for flip-flopping on DADT have been exposed as the utter fraud they've obviously always been. As to whether he's run out.
I agree with the point of his post -- including his disagreement with the idea that it's Obama's fault if he can't get fake-moderate Republican Senators he has no discernible.
Shorter John McCain, justifying leading the filibuster against the repeal of DADT: "It's outrageous to use a defense appropriations bill to deal with matters pertaining to the American military." I.
It's pathetic enough for the Deeply Principled John McStraightTalk to flip-flop on DATA. But it's especially risible that he's using the favorite new Republican form of evasion, "they're ramming it.
The cottage industry of liberals who were convinced that John McCain's brief fit of pique against George W. Bush reflected his Real Authentic Moderate Liberal self (I still think this.