Heroic John McCain scares the stuffing out of Washington’s cockroaches! He’s my HERO! (and I bet he’s going to take on those slums up in Chicago too, and those bad guys that have profited off them…
Well, well. I read that fabulous article in The Guardian on McCain the other day, and funny thing. I came across two names in a couple of those paragraphs, and one of them seems VERY afraid of a HERO who is as honest as McCain will be! It’s this guy:
“…That sentiment was echoed by Mississippi Republican Senator Thad Cochran, who told a Boston newspaper: ‘The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me…’
So, why would this Cochran guy be so damn scared of a good guy like McCain? Maybe he has some reasons to have a cold chill running down his timid little spine, no? Because, if you look at this article on him from the wikipedia he certainly does seem to have his little fingers all over Washington’s pie, doesn’t he?
Like for instance, he’s involved with all this stuff!
- Appropriations (Ranking Member)
- Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (Ex-Officio)
- Subcommittee on Defense
- Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
- Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (Ex-Officio)
- Subcommittee on Homeland Security (Ranking Member)
- Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Legislative Branch (Ex-Officio)
- Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans’ Affairs, and Related Agencies (Ex-Officio)
- Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (Ex-Officio)
- Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (Ex-Officio)
- Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Rules and Administration
That’s a lot of stuff isn’t it? To be involved with…
Maybe McCain scares him because he might want to investigate that little melamine dog food problem we seem to have just transcended, no? That killed all those people’s dogs over here. Could he have known about the Melamine being introduced into kibble?
If I were him, I’d be a little scared too.
Because of this! Just a little something I got off of the ol’ Muckraker!
“…Sen. Thad Cochran (Miss.), ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, has collected $774 million worth of earmarks in 12 spending bills. After Cochran, Sen. Ted Stevens (Alaska), the second-ranking Republican on Appropriations, secured more money for special projects than any other member of Congress: $502 million…”
I wasn’t exactly sure what all these pork things and earmarks were about, but, I know my personal hero, the MAVERICK JOHN McCAIN doesn’t like them!
So, I found this great article right here! (It helped me understand what all of that porky piglet stuff was about) and then, I thought I’d have a look at what McCain had to say about all this over at his place!
Well, well! Here is what he had to say!
Lobbying and Ethics Reform
Seal the Pork Barrel
“…Among the most glaring abuses in Washington is the willful setting aside of taxpayer dollars for the pet projects of special interests, often through last minute additions to appropriations bills. Pork barrel spending is an insult to taxpayers, a waste of public resources, and an abdication of our leaders’ responsibility to be good and honorable stewards of the public treasury, for the benefit of all Americans, not just a few.Too often it appears that elected leaders use the treasury as a campaign kitty, channeling taxpayer dollars for pet projects to preserve incumbency rather than to meet national needs. John McCain has been a tireless warrior against wasteful spending, and one of the few leaders who has the guts to challenge abusive Congressional earmarks and the pork barrel politics that grip Washington. John McCain understands that, fundamentally, wasteful spending is an issue of ethics.
As he pointed out recently as part of his longstanding, principled, and often lonely vigil against pork barrel earmarks in Congress: “Earmarked dollars have doubled just since 2000, and more than tripled in the last 10 years. This explosion in earmarks led one lobbyist to deride the appropriations committees as favor factories. The time for us to fix this broken process is long overdue.” As President, John McCain would shine the disinfecting light of public scrutiny on those who abuse the public purse, use the power of the presidency to restore fiscal responsibility, and exercise the veto pen to enforce it…”
Now do you see why he is my hero! He’s going to fix things around that ol’ Washington right where it counts! It occurs to me that there might be many in Washington who are absolutely scared shitless of him right now. Especially all those “special project” types, no?
Like say those Chicago Slums we talked about yesterday, and how Obama is involved with that guy Rezko, and stuff. Just to refresh your memory, here is that story again off the Boston Globe!
How interesting! Looks like our hero’s competition is involved with those earmarks and porky stuff too. But I guess that’s just the way they like to “keep house” up Chicago way. Let poor Black people suffer in rat infested slums while building gigantic Aquariums! Hmmmm….
My HERO, John McCain? I don’t think he’d like that kind of thing, do you?
Look what I found over at the SWINE LINE! wow!
Fishing for Tax Dollars
You know, rather than helping tourism? You better fix those rat-filled slums, pal. Like my HERO would.
And now a little song for all those lil porkers! (from one of my fave artists) just double click that arrow in the middle of it and be magically swept to a place where you can hear it! I’m playing it for my hero! Umm, hmmm… ’cause just like me, he’s a Westerner, and ummm, we just don’t abide with things like the above. No, we don’t. Why you ask? Because they are UNETHICAL!
Gee, I can’t help wondering what Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Ralph Nader and the fabulous ghost of Teddy Roosevelt would have to say about all this! You know, John McCain is just like Teddy Roosevelt, isn’t he?
Beloved! By a lot of pumapeople, everywhere! It’s high time we had somebody with his kind of ethics take the helm!
