Never a Scandal with John McCain, no matter what he does

Perusing the editorials in the major papers today, especially the Washington Post, I see there is little to nothing John McCain can actually DO or actually SAY that trumps what Barack Obama didn’t actually do or didn’t actually say.

From the realm of physics:

Republican John McCain said Wednesday that the bridge collapse in Minnesota that killed 13 people last year would not have happened if Congress had not wasted so much money on pork-barrel spending…."The bridge in Minneapolis didn’t collapse because there wasn’t enough money," McCain told reporters while campaigning in Pennsylvania. "The bridge in Minneapolis collapsed because so much money was spent on wasteful, unnecessary pork-barrel projects."

Um, yeah. Actually the bridge collapsed because of a faulty design. But I suppose in John McCain’s world the I-35 bridge may have cried itself into rusty collapse like Iron-Eyes Cody over wasteful government spending.

A gas-tax that ironically pays for the maintenance of roads and bridges, who needs that crap? What a lousy pork-barrel mumbo jumbo that use tax is — employing all those people and stuff to make sure bridges don’t collapse anymore.

And then there is this example of mature foreign policy judgment:

John McCain dropped a little-noticed bombshell into his March foreign-policy address: Boot Russia from the G-8, the elite club of leading industrial democracies whose leaders try to coordinate economic policies.

One major problem: He can’t do it because the other G-7 nations won’t let him.

But the fact that he’s proposing to try, risking a return to Cold War tensions with the world’s second-largest nuclear power after 20 years of prickly partnership, raises questions about McCain’s judgment.

But then that’s from McClatchy and has Warren Strobel on the byline and what have they, and he in particular, ever been right about?

And then again, John McCain has always been right about Iraq, no matter how many different answers he has given. The Maverick wouldn’t lie would he? I mean the man has an "R" after his name and everything. And those people NEVER lie or make a mistake.

(picture the product of Watertiger and I collaborating [she did the part that requires talent] – we apologize in advance)

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