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“Petty, partisan, and disingenuous.” That’s what McCain said about Senators who vote against well-qualified Supreme Court nominees: just before voting against two of them.
Archive for the ‘John McCain’ Category
April 21st, 2010
Category: John McCain, Watching Conservatives
Why would a Senator Crist caucus with the people who put a knife in his back?
January 8th, 2010
Category: John McCain
“His soul has been sold so many times now it’s a wonder it’s not on eBay.”
November 4th, 2008
Category: John McCain
If he’d made this sort of speech during the campaign, he would have left a better memory.
November 4th, 2008
Category: John McCain
“There is neither honor nor profit in doing evil badly.” - Michael Walzer
October 30th, 2008
Category: John McCain
The consensus seems now to have settled down that John McCain’s campaign behavior has been erratic and temperamental. Certainly that was the Obama campaign’s narrative. In fact, McCain has been about as consistent as can be: whatever Steve Schmidt tells him to do, he does. Since Schmidt is obsessed about the news cycle, and has [...]
October 30th, 2008
Category: John McCain
If McCain is an engineer because he went to Annapolis, then I’m a pansexual semiotics professor (because I went to Swarthmore).
