While I'm not a big fan of protesting during a speech, there is something to be said for free speech. It shouldn't include being brow beaten with a now tired response from John McCain. He continues to use an exceptional case to close down debate on illegal immigration. And his temperament in doing it doesn't really play well at all.
If he wants to yell and curse at his colleagues in the Senate, it's their business if they want to put up with it. But how long before this guy really goes off on someone in the heat of a national campaign?
Mr. Shamnesty-Short Fuse almost walked off the stage during a campaign event with the AFL-CIO in Michigan. Audience members didn’t like his soft-on-illegal immigration blather. They booed.
Just out of interest, would you guys be voting for or against the Kossacks if you were in Michigan right now?
Posted by: IslamoLlama | Monday, January 14, 2008 at 05:11 PM
Dan, check out at the end of the MSNBC article for this money quote:
“Most of us don’t agree with him on immigration, but I give him credit for trying,” said Chris D. Schoenbeck of Milwaukee.
With his profile rising, a growing number of Democrats are accusing McCain of flip-flopping on issues to court conservative GOP primary voters.
WOW! McCain accused of betraying the left, that about sums it up!
Posted by: mike | Monday, January 14, 2008 at 05:15 PM
He looks like the cranky old man down the street who gets mad when the schoolkids cut across his lawn. Quite a party you patriots have there...
Posted by: BobInStamford | Monday, January 14, 2008 at 06:24 PM
"the Kossacks"
What the hell are russian cavalry doing in Michigan? It's spelled with a C by the way, Cossack.
Posted by: Wahoo Willie Sez: | Monday, January 14, 2008 at 11:37 PM
Its amazing for a Senator who touts his military credentials to not understand the need for 'sustainable force in theater' which requires rotation of troops. He has always been 'for a larger footprint in Iraq', but he has never addressed the structural problems of the size of the Armed Forces that would be necessary to *get that* on a rotational basis. Currently the rotation is a hard and fast one, for many units going a year there a year back fifteen months there a year back... etc.
Thus my problem with John McCain isn't just now, it is the actions he took in 1992 to 'break away' from the HW Bush Administration's DoD budget so that he could help get a 'peace dividend' during the beginning of the Clinton Administration. That is something he would continue with, even calling for a 'staged readiness system' in 1996 which would leave approximately 1/3 of the already smaller US armed forces at a reduced readiness status. As was criticized that would leave a portion of the Armed Forces unable to respond to emergency need... which is what we got due to Administration and Congressional lack of oversight in supplies and stores for the active armed forces with two US Army Divisions hitting their lowest readiness state since Vietnam in 1999. That, too, had been warned about to Congress previously, by Congressional trips and reports to the Joint Training facilities.
I find it disingenuous for John McCain to criticize the lack of not having a 'big footprint' when he was one of the prime architects of 'reducing the size' of the armed forces and thus making a 'small footprint' necessary. Because it is Congress that gets to set the size of the armed forces, buy them all the goods and supplies they need and ensure they have the resources to be ready for a conflict.
But then that is John McCain these days: does one thing, proposes another, says a third. And then tries to show how prescient he is in a mess he helped to create.
Posted by: ajacksonian | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 07:39 AM
That's right, Boob. Next time you'd better stay off that little lawn around my trailor if you know what's good for you.
ajack, I agree. Too many legislators seem to forget that the main reason government was invented was for protection of the populace.
Posted by: Fred Beloit | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 08:43 AM
That was a GREAT response by McCain! He's got brass ones. He's my second choice behind Thompson.
Meanwhile, you've got Mittens suggesting we kick all 12,000,000 out of the country after examining them one at a time. Or maybe it's something else today. Hey, whatever sells from the Panderbear.
Posted by: K T Cat | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 02:08 PM