John McCain has put politics aside and suspended his campaign. Four days into the crisis, McCain will beam in from the campaign trail and straighten everything out. Four days of work have gone on and now McCain's going to come in and straighten everything out. Does this seem especially helpful to you? If so, consider history.Washington Post, via Capitol Hill Blue:
At a bipartisan gathering in an ornate meeting room just off the Senate floor, McCain complained that Cornyn was raising petty objections to a compromise plan being worked out between Senate Republicans and Democrats and the White House. He used a curse word associated with chickens and accused Cornyn of raising the issue just to torpedo a deal.
Things got really heated when Cornyn accused McCain of being too busy campaigning for president to take part in the negotiations, which have gone on for months behind closed doors. "Wait a second here," Cornyn said to McCain. "I've been sitting in here for all of these negotiations and you just parachute in here on the last day. You're out of line."
McCain, a former Navy pilot, then used language more accustomed to sailors (not to mention the current vice president, who made news a few years back after a verbal encounter with Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont).
"F--- you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room," shouted McCain at Cornyn. McCain helped craft a bill in 2006 that passed the Senate but couldn't be compromised with a House bill that was much tougher on illegal immigrants.
Yeah, that ought to go well. Associated Press offers some other examples of what Baghdad Johnny's steady leadership might look like:
"Only an a------ would put together a budget like this," he told the former Budget Committee chairman, Sen. Pete Domenici, in 1999.
"I'm calling you a f------ jerk!" he once retorted to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley.
McCain says he won't return to the campaign until there's a deal. With leadership like he's supposedly bringing to Washington, that could be some time next year, when it's signed by President Obama. Of course, there's every chance that he'll do the wisest thing, which would be to shut up, vote with the winners, and take credit for it afterward...
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