sen. john mccain

Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) tweets about earmarks have won the hearts of Americans from Maureen Dowd to … well, to Maureen Dowd. But this latest tweet about “wasteful spending” is a head-scratcher.
$1 million for Shipment and storage of oil shale core samples
Oil shale research is wasteful? I don’t know many Republicans who agree with this. [...]

Eve Fairbanks and Matthew Yglesias both dump cluster bombs of snark on Republicans who are opposing President Obama much the way that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) did yesterday at the fiscal responsibility summit: by fussing about pork and trying to win news cycles. Yglesias, mocking Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) for a proposed “spending freeze”:
What if [...]

At this morning’s Senate hearing on the D.C. Voting Rights Act, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) were the only Republicans in attendance and asking questions. McCain was the only one of them who voted nay, and he gave two reasons. The first was that the proposed compromise [...]

For politicians in the U.S. and abroad, it once seemed like a good idea to hitch their political fates to George W. Bush’s wagon.