Another Schoolyard Taunt From The White House For Sen. John McCain

He is comparing McCain to a six-year-old because McCain is acting like a six-year-old. That seems simple enough.
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Knew this was an MS post the second I saw the headline. Past-sell-by-date McCain-love, + something snide about the WH = MS.

I would have said 3 yr old, but tomatoe tomato

Ol’ McClassy hasn’t been at a loss for words, I’m sure you will have a quote from him soon.

Via Twitter @stephenfhayes

Spoke to Sen McCain yest just as #HCR signing ceremony began. Asked why he wasn’t watching: “I didn’t want to give Nero a bigger audience.”

Michael Scherer:
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Speaking of schoolyards and six-year-olds, do you realize that you’re effectively standing around and yelling “Fight! Fight!“?

Well, it’s an honest and blunt comparison, no different than the same observation we’ve made around here when McCain’s quote was reported. I’m not sure that it’s productive though. Unfortunately there’s no winning this sort of battle with McCain. He has nothing but contempt for Obama and won’t let the White House have the last word on the matter. It would be refreshing if McCain gave his “no cooperation” statement a second thought and retracted it but he’d likely be an Olympic gymnast before he’d publicly admit that he was wrong. Both sides just need to knock this crap off.

Michael, were those your questions?
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If only this had happened:
Michael: McCain said he’s going to oppose everything.
Gibbs: He hasn’t already? What has he supported lately?

It’s so easy to tell, isn’t it?

Seriously Michael if you can’t see that McCain has become a whiney six year old every since he lost the election you my friend are a bit blind.

if the shoe fits.

if it quacks like a duck…

you know the drill.

Yes, as Shakespear says old age is second childhood. MCCain’s silly behavior since 2008 is a proof of the fact that he has reached his second childhood.

…and running back and forth between the two parties going: “Didja hear that? He called you a baby! Are you going to take that??1?”

Act like a child, throw temper tantrums like a child, get treated like a child. Gibbs answer was spot-on.
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I’m having trouble determining if MS is highlighting a well deserved smackdown delivered to McCain by Gibbs or if he’s still riding the tire swing. Based on past experience, my guess is the latter.

Yes, Mr. Mcain is behaving like a six-year old (although 2-3 is probably more developmentally accurate)

MS: No response yet from McCain.

He’s over there in the corner, pouting.

CMB: Both sides just need to knock this crap off.

I’m rather enjoying the Dems’ mockery of the Republican’s obstructionist idiocy. Besides, it’s not as the GOP would be less antagonistic or would stop blocking legislation if Gibbs were more deferential to McCain.

The image of Newt Gingrich as a tantrum-throwing baby, published on the cover of the New York Post after the Republican Congress shut down the government during the Clinton administration, also comes to mind.

So if McCranky is anti-earmark, thus not bring home bacon for his district, and now says he will not work with the majority in any way to prepare or move legislation — what is he running for re-election on? What is he telling voters is why they should vote for him?

To be fair, if you work at it, you can compare virtually every aspect of adult behavior to something children do. For example, I’m contradicting other people for no better reason than that I enjoy it. Pretty childish.
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What McCain has been saying isn’t ridiculous because it parallels the things a child would say. It’s ridiculous because it presupposes that there was something less than a universal stonewalling of the President before this.
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It is interesting that they keep egging him on though. This whole display really isn’t playing very well for Republicans, and I think Democrats know that. They’re servicing their own egos, and I have to wonder how long it can go on before they start to turn away moderate Republican voters (a segment of Americans that I’m assuming still exists, despite a relative lack of evidence).

Stop saying mean things about John McCain!

mccainfluffer! It’s been a long time!

McCain has turned into such a sad sack. He’s a man who’s run out of ideas and searching for his own relevancy. He’s basically been discarded by his own party.
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For years and years, he was always that outsider who could have been president. Then he got the nomination and in the course of several months made a disaster of his candidacy from Palin to suspending his campaign to “that one”. He bungled it to such an extent that he’s a has-been in his own party. Camera hogs like Pence and Cantor have shoved him out of their way. Whereas before people made allowances for his temper tantrums and general *ssholery, now they don’t even bother. The only people who still think he’s relevant are his apologists in the press who are still impressed by his war-hero mythology and his bbq-ing backslapping. People like Broder and Scherer.
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Any other elder statesman would retire with dignity. McCain should just take a dive and give the Republican Party a big f-u by sticking them with Hayworth. But McCain has nothing to go home to. His wife hates his guts and all the property belongs to her. What else has he got to do except hang out at the Senate lunch room with his pals Joe and Lindsay?

It seems like neither party on the 2008 GOP ticket had any interest in doing what they were elected to do. But after the last few months, this contempt for the electorate seems fairly widespread throughout the GOP.

Don’t worry, McCain will have someone cover his ears so he won’t hear you, lalalalalalala!!!!

Did you just compare MS to Michael Vick?

Hey, all you Obama sycophants. The emperor has no clothes, and you ‘re worried about McCain?

No one’s been “worried” about McCain, at least not politically, since November 2008.
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As for the emperor having no clothes…please, join the rest of us in reality. Obama and Pelosi just epically kicked some *ss.

For all the people that voted for McCain:

Aren’t you ashamed of yourselves?

Take the tape off Cindy’s mouth and put it over John’s. Fukking hell.

So John is going to oppose everything?
He’s going to oppose bills that help his constituents?
He’s going to oppose military spending?
He’s going to oppose spending for veterans? (not for the 1st time either)

It’s time for the senile old fool to go home.

Somebody had better check on Cindy to see if she’s OK. Grandpa’s on the warpath again.

I have to go install a new ceiling fan. Somebody say something nasty about Grandpa Munster for me.

“No response yet from McCain.”
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Better taunting then. I say put Kerry on it. He looks French:

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You only remind me of the tire swing when you post about McCain. Just saying.

OUCH! That one’s gotta sting, huh Gramps?

Me too.. I could tell it was a MS post from a mile away.
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Try as I might, I don’t have any sympathy left for a 6-year old with a penchant for 360 degrees turn on every major policy issue facing the nation.
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BTW, Any idea what happened to his “Internet freedom” bill against FCC’s Net neutrality push? Wonder what MS has to say about that, considering that McCain is a self-confessed internet illiterate.

I like Bugs, as in Bunny. “If someone were to tell me that my rabbit wasn’t my rabbit, I’d tweak his little pink, tomato nose.” Cue frying pan and baseball bat in 3… 2…

I believe we have a quorum.
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Mikey + St. Mavericky = Open thread!

Someone should tell McCain that politics is not like flying a plane. When you crash in politics sometimes you can’t just walk away from it.

Ah, we’ve graduated to three syllable words, have we?
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Elitist.

“sycophant,” that is. Sloppy post.

Dig this – Jimi Hendrix has a new album out, and it opened in the Top 10!
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Don’t overlook the gaping hole left from not being in power, anymore. Some people will do _anything_ to avoid this. They live for the feeling you get when you walk into a room and people grovel at your feet.
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Hark, McCain! Do you not hear yon bell tolling…?

Are you kidding? The whole situation just reinforces the idea that they were right all along. Ig’nant rednecks…

You can’t tell? Isn’t the aroma of barbecue sauce a dead giveaway?

Joe Lieberman will have to explain the joke to McCain

I just read Jay s post, It seems like McCain isnt the only one acting like a 6 year old.

Do you mean the Republican party, at large?

McCain has always been a guy who thought small. Earmarks, for example, a few million there, a few here. Not that that waste is not important, but that is the limit of his vision. He never would have the audacity, the endurance, the doggedness and the sheer ambition to tackle something as big as health care reform. After all, this is the guy who in the sprint to the presidency took the weekends off.
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It’s clear that he was more interested in the title of President, the groveling at feet that you mention, than in actually helping people in any way. My guess is that in an alternate universe, President McCain would have already bombed both Russia (on behalf of Georgia) and Iran by this point.

MrNG: Haha! Sachre bleu! Deed ‘ee reelee say zat?!?

(Marvin the Martian voice):Ooooooh! Yoo make me sooo annngreeee!!1!

Bugs Bunny: Of course, if you really want to make something good, nothing beats a good old Louisiana Back-bay Bayou Bunny Bordelaise, a la Antoine.
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Francois: A la Antoine? This Antoine of New Orleans?
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Bugs Bunny: I don’t mean Antoine of Flatbush.

I heard him wax on about pork 2 years ago here in the Great Lakes State. $2M to catalog bear DNA – the travesty!!

She doesn’t care; she’s sedated.

I’d laugh at Gibbs, but then I remember that ‘You can’t argue with an idiot. They’ll just drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.” And Gibbs is arguing with idiots.

Yes, John McCain is a Very Serious person. Perhaps he can suspend his primary campaign to discuss this Very Serious matter.

http://www.borowitzreport.com/2010/03/25/poll-majority-favor-earlier-bedtime-for-mccain/
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“Poll: Majority Favor Earlier Bedtime for McCain”

Anyone remember when McCain campaigned on a theme of “Country First”?
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Yeah, him neither.

He switched to “Yes We Can’t”.

That’s quite a change from his 2008 motto. “Country First,” remember?
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What an unmitigated a$$hole.

I wanna be sedated.
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Rock ‘n’ Roll nenewed my soul.

I don’t know if you’ve heard – and by that I mean that this is not common knowledge, by any means – but John McCain was a prisoner of war.
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And surprisingly, he is incorporating this into his election commercials here in Arizona.

So this is my impression from the past few days, and correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like Scherer has responded to the passing of health care reform and the associated Republican defeat by trying to become the World’s Biggest Assh*le.

Career counselors do advise you to start any new endeavor by playing to your strengths.

If McCain has now announced he’s not going to do anything, does that mean the Sunday talk shows will stop inviting him on?
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I know, I know. Stupid question. They’re as addicted to McCain’s barbecue as MS is.

It may be that Mike is having trouble coming to grips with the fact that McCain is really just a piece of sh!t.

Senator McCain will appear on the Today Show tomorrow for the 230th time.

‘Bout as painful as watching Buzz Aldrin on DWTS.

McCain better get it together.
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Look what happened to the last guy who tried to get in front of the Obama Express…
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/22/849255/-The-cow-on-the-tracks-of-health-care-reform

Thank you, Shep. Your post was verrry nihce!

But he fully supports extending the senior discount at Golden Corral.

I don’t think that captures the tone he’s sending. It doesn’t quite encapsulate his essence; it’s too positive.
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I think you want something more along the lines of, “Hell, no. And f.ck off.”

I think Friar captured the thread with that one.

It says something about the Republican when McCain is scared of a nut case like JD Hayworth. By the way, I have been saying for sometime that MS is a case study of a passive aggressive personality.

John McCain showed as much interest in knowing how to land a plane as Mohamed Attar. How long before his Republican opponents use that?

No, that was “No country for old men.”

FT can cut like a scalpel.

Where’s the passive part?

The man-crush on / subservience to St. John of McCain … ?

Most 6 year olds are considerably more well reasoned than McCain. And they actually stick to their beliefs.

Michael swopes in and leaves an ambiguous headline and retreats. “Another Schoolyard Taunt from the White House”. No real context given. Seldom participates in conversation. Often posts negative videos about Dems under the guise that his motive is only to share. Likes to instigate but stay back from disputes. Manipulates.
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These are a few things I remember from psych 101 that may apply to the passive side of MS.
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Plus, I just find him annoying.

Pardon me–did I miss something? When and on what issue or policy has the distinguished senior senator from AZ actually cooperated on since he lost the election?