Mac is back indeed

From the Washington Post:

A joke made its way around the Capitol yesterday: How do you know the 2008 election is really over? Because John McCain is causing trouble for Republicans again.

Two and a half months removed from his defeat in the race for the presidency, colleagues say, McCain bears more resemblance to the unpredictable and frequently bipartisan lawmaker they have served with for decades than the man who ran an often scathing campaign against Barack Obama. In some instances, he's even carrying water for his former rival.

"Mac is back!" one of his devoted friends in the Senate declared as McCain walked into the chamber Wednesday to deliver his first speech of the 111th Congress: a blunt admonishment of Republicans delaying Hillary Rodham Clinton's confirmation as secretary of state.

"I remind all my colleagues: We had an election," McCain noted. "I think the message the American people are sending us now is they want us to work together, and get to work."

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The surest sign of McCain's return to his "maverick" ways came when he caught wind of an effort by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) to delay Clinton's confirmation vote by a day, pushing it from Tuesday to Wednesday because he was seeking greater disclosure about foreign donors to former president Bill Clinton's charitable foundation. McCain found the objection gratuitous -- despite policy disagreements with Clinton, he and most Republicans consider her well qualified -- and said so publicly.

"I think that's indicative of the role that John McCain is going to play," said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who hatched the push-back against Cornyn's gambit over dinner with McCain on Tuesday night, and who followed him to the floor to support Clinton's confirmation. "He's going to play a very active role. He's going to try to forge bipartisan coalitions. And he won't shy away from controversy."

So in the diseased imaginations of Crazy John McCain and left-wing liberal RINO Susan Collins "winning an election" means that corruption and conflicts of interest are no longer relevant?

To say that many of the donors to the Clintons campaigns, library, legal defense fund and other entities are of questionable character and associations is an understatement worthy of a British comedy sketch. Under the deal worked out with the Obama administration Hillary will only have to disclose donations which are higher than usual for any particular donor. That means that if an al Qaeda front group or the Red Chinese military has been giving Hillary and Bill millions they can remain silent about it unless they start giving billions.

But of course insane evil John McCain and his RINO sycophants have no problem with this.

Yet the GOP is supposed to make the "survival of Northeastern Republicans" their top priority and not oppose the little messiah over the next two years.

Let me say this loudly and clearly:

THE GOP DOES NOT NEED PEOPLE LIKE SUSAN COLLINS AND IT CERTAINLY DOES NOT NEED PEOPLE LIKE CRAZY JOHN MCCAIN! WE ARE ALREADY IN THE MINORITY. WE ALREADY LACK THE NUMBERS TO STOP ANYTHING ON A PARTY LINE VOTE SO WE DO NOT NEED TO BE WEAKENED BY LIBERAL REPUBLICANS LIKE COLLINS AND MCCAIN.

The GOP is better off because McCain lost the election and the nation is too. It is clear now that there is very little (if anything) that the little messiah will do in office that McCain would not have done had he been elected. It is far better that these things come from a Democrat than from a nominal Republican. This preserves the GOP's potential status as a viable alternative to the Democrats utter incompetence.

That is unless we become nothing more than rubber stamps for the left. There are very good reasons to oppose Hillary Clinton's appointment as Secretary of State - starting with the fact that there is nothing in her background to prepare her for the job and ending with the fact that she and her husband are criminals who are on the payroll of our nation's enemies.

To meekly roll over and accept her is the height of folly. How can we stand up in 2010 and 2012 and denounce the Obama administration's wretched and terrible lack of judgment in appointing her when we raised no objections to her now when it counts?

So I say again, and not for the last time, kick John McCain's crazy evil ass out of the Republican party right damn now! He does us no good and much harm. We do not and never have needed him.