McCain was also AWOL from the floor for the vote
“I respect Senator John McCain’s service to our country. He is one of those heroes of which I speak. But I can’t understand why he would line up behind the president in opposition to this GI bill. I can’t believe why he believes it is too generous to our veterans. I could not disagree with him and the president more on this issue. There are many issues that lend themselves to partisan posturing, but giving our veterans the chance to go to college should not be one of them.”
When reading McCain’s response there I really hoped he was about to continue with an actual example of why this was a bad bill. Something like “… he would learn the bill actually fails to provide coverage for nearly 30% of veterans.” A substantive reason to show why Obama is wrong.
Instead, as we’ve come to expect from politicians, he provides no reason at all:
I think the bigger story is that McCain more or less lost his #*#( in response. If this is all it takes for McCain to lose it, how many cities are going to get bombed over a fit of pique?
I also like that McLame said that Obama could not criticize him on military issues because Obama did not serve (like GW). Ours is a civilian run military, and there is no military test for Commander in Chief. It’s like McCain saying I’m not allowed to criticize the New York Yankees because I never played pro baseball.
McCain should just take a page from the Democratic playbook and whine:
“Don’t question my patriotism!!”
Hm, Jay, disregarding your mischaracterization of that statement as a “whine,” I’d point out that Democrats would never have considered adding that play to the playbook if Republicans hadn’t made “patriotism” an issue on the level of life or death.
It wasn’t Democrats who first started raising childish nonsense about lapel pins, you know.
Spider, Jay has a good point.
Or at least, I think he must even though I can’t tell what it is. He told us just a couple of weeks ago that he never, ever uses the “Yeah, but they do it too” argument.
He always debates the facts. Just ask him.