Even as we have Democrats accusing Republicans of being anarchists and arsonists and extortionists and suicide bombers and despicable, political terrorists who are every bit as dangerous to the nation as the civil war...guess who John McCain is mad at?
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Friday said the GOP has become a "dysfunctional" party that has spent more time infighting over ObamaCare than targeting Democrats who passed the law.
McCain blamed Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah.), the leaders of the movement to tie defunding of ObamaCare to the threat of a government shutdown, for driving wedges between Republicans. Both have appeared in ads attacking fellow GOP lawmakers.
"We are dividing the Republican Party," McCain said on CBS. In his nearly 30 years in the Senate, McCain said he has never seen the infighting among members of his party so bad.
"Rather than attacking Democrats and maybe trying to persuade those five or six Democrats that are leaning Republican, we are now launching attacks against Republicans funded by commercials that Sen. Lee and Sen. Cruz appear in."Attacking Democrats? Whenever you're ready, Maverick. There's a first time for everything, I guess. In the meantime, there's this:
GOP sends negative Cruz info to Fox; Aide says John McCain 'fucking hates' Ted Cruz
and this:
John McCain, Lindsey Graham attack Rand Paul for marathon 13-hour filibuster
and this:
McCain joins Obama, calls for review of 'Stand Your Ground' laws
and this:
McCain 'impressed' with Obama's divisive 'coulda been me' speech on racism
and this:
McCain Blasts GOP's Attacks on "Reproductive Rights"
and this:
John McCain Attacks Republicans For Not Supporting His Amnesty Plan
and this:
McCain Tweets Huffington Post Article attacking Republicans
and this:
McCain Defends Clinton Aide Huma Abedin
and this:
McCain: Paul, Cruz, Amash Are 'Wacko Birds'
and this:
McCain Accuses Tea Party Colleagues Of Pushing Dems Too Far
and this:
John McCain attacks Deb Fischer after her criticism of immigration bill
and this:
McCain Attacks Washington, Republicans, Old White Men with White Hair (yes, really)
and this:
While going to bat for the Obama Regime in the 2011 debt-ceiling fight, Maverick quoted on the Senate floor a Wall Street Journal editorial that referred to the Tea Party as "hobbits." And then he defended what he did in the Huffington Post:
John McCain On Tea Party 'Hobbit' Criticism: 'I Am Not Sorry For What I Said'
And this is just a small sampling of the kind of crap that McCain has been doing and saying since the 1990s. He's always courted the Establishment Media by bashing members of his own party because he knows they can't get enough of that stuff. Of course, he found out very quickly how fake their admiration of him really is once he found himself competing with Barack Obama in 2008.
Since getting his ass kicked that year McCain has pursued a policy of getting back in the good graces of the media by bashing Conservatives and siding with Obama as much as he possibly can. Where was McCain on the night that Rand Paul stood for 13 hours in filibuster? He was having dinner with Obama at the Jefferson Hotel, along with several other Vichy Republicans.
It's ironic that McCain is bashing Ted Cruz and Mike Lee for attacking other Republicans for not going along with their proposals. One of the common themes of the articles linked above is that McCain ruthlessly attacks fellow Republicans who don't back his policy initiatives, including intervening in the Syrian civil war on the side of Al-Qaeda and other jihadi genocidal maniacs. He also doesn't like it when they oppose Democrat policy initiatives or object to Dear Leader's divisive speeches.
And here's some additional hypocrisy regarding his opposition to the Cruz-Lee strategy of defunding ObamaCare: McCain was in favor of that strategy before he was against it.
In late 2009, the Senate was debating Obamacare but had to shift off Obamacare to switch over to deal with military funding which had been included in a Continuing Resolution (CR). McCain, along with Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Richard Burr (R-NC), Mike Johanns (R-NE), and Bob Corker (R-TN), all voted to hold up military funding before Christmas amid the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, according to the Senate roll call records.
At that time, Senate Republicans had only had 40 members so they could not hold up Obamacare at a cloture vote. Until Brown won the special election in Massachusetts, they planned to stall to try to hold off Reid as long as they could. They also hoped constituent pressure over Obamacare's unpopularity would aid them if some Democrats had to face voters over the holidays. As a result, they actually filibustered a military funding bill in an attempt to buy time.
"Republicans have said their goal is to delay the bill and force Senate Democrats to go home and face their constituents, hoping for some supporters of the measure to return after New Year's too fearful to back the legislation," the Washington Post wrote at the time - a strategy that is all too familiar to what Cruz is advocating now.
Why did the Republicans lose then? Several GOP senators abandoned the strategy and voted with Reid to move the Senate along. Those who broke with McCain and the rest of the Senate Republicans were Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Arlen Specter (D-PA) (who had just switched parties), and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX); of that group, only Collins still holds office in the U.S. Senate.Obviously McCain doesn't really have a problem with this particular procedural tactic. He's attempted to use it himself. So what's the problem? Well, the Tea Party was in its infancy in late 2009 and had yet to send anybody to Congress.
Since the rise of the Tea Party, however, McCain has reflexively cozied up to the likes of Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, as well as Obama himself, because he prefers to stand with his fellow Beltway Establishment elitists - regardless of party affiliation - than with those who represent the grassroots base of the GOP.
Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and other members of a new generation of Senate GOP leaders are a threat to the hegemony of the Establishment. That's why they are being attacked by McCain and his allies. It's that simple. They stand with us. "Maverick" stands with...well, you know.
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