The McCain Hypocrisy
Welcome to the “Do As I Say, Not As I Do” world of Washington D.C., dear readers. John McCain, best known for championing the Incumbent Protection and Eradication of Free Speech Act, also known as Campaign Finance Reform, has in light of recent “earmarking”, the popular euphemism for pork-barrel spending, argued against “earmarks” to the tone of threatening to introduce legislation to eradicate them altogether. While such a goal is a laudatory one and I personally would be impressed if he actually did it, McCain likes to prove that he’s no different or less hypocritical than his colleagues.
It would appear McCain has at least temporarily forgotten his crusade against pork-barrel projects. Such amnesia is common among the Washington elite and highly contagious. He has proposed a bill that would pay out $10 million over five years to establish a new law school in his home state of Arizona named after the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Defenders including the man who was thought to be the very conservative fellow Senator from Arizona John Kyl claim that this isn’t really pork-barrel spending because the public is fully aware of the existence of the project.
You heard that right. Because “we” have heard of it, it’s not really an “earmark’. That I guess includes the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska, one McCain himself railed against in his “crusade” against “earmarks”. Because we’ve heard about it, we don’t have to worry about it being a frivolous waste of taxpayer dollars anymore. I know that fits a school to train more lawyers. We certainly don’t have enough of those. John’s lost what few ounces of respectability he had with me.
I can’t say I ever considered the senator more than an extreme left leaning liberal in “moderate’s” clothing, but this act of rank, foul-smelling hypocrisy takes the cake. He has no justification for this. He’s no different than Ted Kennedy. Everything he says is suspect and all his past acts, like McCain-Feingold, should be put in their proper light and perspective as burdens on the freedom and treasury of the people of the United States of America.
Barry Goldwater is spinning like a turbine in his grave, knowing his legacy as a senator from the great state of Arizona is being besmirched by a socialist schmuck. If he spins any faster, they’ll be able to hook up a generator to him and solve Southern California’s power problems for the next century. Sorry Barry.
My personal feeling on this is that it’s time for the people of Arizona to wake up and realize the kind of Senators they have in Washington, a breed that symbolizes politics as usual and big-government feeding at the trough. Welcome to the Union, Arizona, your tax dollars and mine are being shoveled into the Golden Corral trough to feed hungry special interests. How do you feel about that?
Welcome to the “Do As I Say, Not As I Do” world of Washington D.C., dear readers. John McCain, best known for championing the Incumbent Protection and Eradication of Free Speech Act, also known as Campaign Finance Reform, has in light of recent “earmarking”, the popular euphemism for pork-barrel spending, argued against “earmarks” to the tone of threatening to introduce legislation to eradicate them altogether. While such a goal is a laudatory one and I personally would be impressed if he actually did it, McCain likes to prove that he’s no different or less hypocritical than his colleagues.
It would appear McCain has at least temporarily forgotten his crusade against pork-barrel projects. Such amnesia is common among the Washington elite and highly contagious. He has proposed a bill that would pay out $10 million over five years to establish a new law school in his home state of Arizona named after the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Defenders including the man who was thought to be the very conservative fellow Senator from Arizona John Kyl claim that this isn’t really pork-barrel spending because the public is fully aware of the existence of the project.
You heard that right. Because “we” have heard of it, it’s not really an “earmark’. That I guess includes the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska, one McCain himself railed against in his “crusade” against “earmarks”. Because we’ve heard about it, we don’t have to worry about it being a frivolous waste of taxpayer dollars anymore. I know that fits a school to train more lawyers. We certainly don’t have enough of those. John’s lost what few ounces of respectability he had with me.
I can’t say I ever considered the senator more than an extreme left leaning liberal in “moderate’s” clothing, but this act of rank, foul-smelling hypocrisy takes the cake. He has no justification for this. He’s no different than Ted Kennedy. Everything he says is suspect and all his past acts, like McCain-Feingold, should be put in their proper light and perspective as burdens on the freedom and treasury of the people of the United States of America.
Barry Goldwater is spinning like a turbine in his grave, knowing his legacy as a senator from the great state of Arizona is being besmirched by a socialist schmuck. If he spins any faster, they’ll be able to hook up a generator to him and solve Southern California’s power problems for the next century. Sorry Barry.
My personal feeling on this is that it’s time for the people of Arizona to wake up and realize the kind of Senators they have in Washington, a breed that symbolizes politics as usual and big-government feeding at the trough. Welcome to the Union, Arizona, your tax dollars and mine are being shoveled into the Golden Corral trough to feed hungry special interests. How do you feel about that?
posted by Rob Beck | 6:55 AM
1 Comments:
I really, really cannot stand John McCain's politics. BCRA is horrilbe legilsation, and his grandstanding in Congress on the "issue" of steroids in baseball was galling. Please, Arizona voters...get rid of this guy.
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