McCain Embarrassed Again.

       I have long admired Senator John McCain, his service, his survival, his dedication to country, but more often than not, lately I just want to spank him.  I watched the CSPAN discussion yesterday about a  House appropriations bill that would provide  a billion dollars of economic assistance to Ukraine. The problem in the Senate is that the White House tacked on a measure that would reform the International Monetary Fund. Republicans say the measure decreases U.S. influence with the IMF.  They also object because part of the cost of implementing the IMF measures would further cut U.S. military accounts.

       Senator Rubio said, "I won’t support flawed legislation that is divisive and actually undermines our efforts to provide quick support to the Ukrainian people in their hour of need." Rubio is right. Bills should be clean and purposeful, but they often become an amorphous glob of tacked on agendas as they work their way through committees and congress.

       Senator McCain issued a long tirade, refused to address the IMF issue at the core of the argument and  made it sound as though his colleagues were refusing to come to the aid of the Ukraine. "I will say to my friends….You can call yourself Republicans. That's fine, because that's your voter registration.   Don't call yourself Reagan Republicans. Ronald Reagan would never, would never let this kind of aggression go unresponded to by the American people."

       Now I know nothing about the IMF issue and understand little about what’s happening in the Ukraine, but I understand words and their meanings, and for McCain to dishonestly warp the discussion to make it seem as though Rubio and Cruz are the ones at fault is offensive.  Pass a clean, honest bill for a change.

       McCain once again says he has “never before been so embarrassed by members of his own party.”  I could say I have never before been so embarrassed by my dear senator, but then I remember how he lambasted Senator Cruz for shutting down the government. 

      It was, of course, the  Democrats and our president who shut down the government.  Republicans offered compromise after compromise.  Democrats refused to move an inch, and now look at the mess they left us. 

          The pièce de la résistance of the McCain tirade was his announcement that would leave the chambers after his speech because he already knew what the “gentleman from Georgia” would say and he wasn’t inclined to listen to him.  He tossed a bomb and left the room.  Democrats do that to me all the time.  Go figure.  Maybe he’s a Democrat.