So can we finally stop expecting things from McCain? Can we just say that he’s a politician just like all the rest, and despite his past experiences and “rebel” nature, he’s ultimately serving his party.

It doesn’t matter whether *you* expect things from McCain or not. The American Public has bought the “maverick” branding hook line and sinker, and therefore McCain shall be a “maverick” whether you believe it or not.

Anyway, in the political environment we’re in right now, lockstepping with the president 99% of the time rather than 100% of the time really *is* all it takes to qualify as a rebel, relatively speaking. That 1% of difference is far more than most of Congress has been willing to stand up for. Even when he’s pushing the Republican party line, McCain in the last year or so has done more to limit the Bush agenda than most of the Democratic party combined. Though in this case he seems to be primarily concerned with selling it…

Whether you agree with the bill or not, you can’t really blame McCain for this. He’s one man, who doesn’t have the power over the administration (though I wish he did). He fought his best for what he believed in and it didn’t work out exactly how he wanted it to. At least he tried to do something productive with the power he did have, LIBERALS.

I thought the U.S. Constitution forbid Congress from passing ex-post facto laws, is this not that principle in reverse, making laws once illegal now legal and saying that anyone who once committed a crime are now in the clear, this is especially disturbing considering the haenus nature of torture

sorry to say I thought McCain was a man of conviction and strength. now he’s going with the type of tactic that works. Dirty politics.

People who fall for that type of person and follow their tactics deserve exactly what they get. Since when are the chinese so much our friends that we don’t mind being indebted to them.

McCain Sold-Out! Another one bites the dust….

“sorry to say I thought McCain was a man of conviction and strength.”
Me too Jed. And to think, there was a time when I would have considered crossing party lines to vote for him. I feel so dirty!

So no one wants to post on this anymore? Too depressing? Well, let me just say this: Damn right it’s depressing! There was a time in which the United States was a light, a beacon to the world and a dream to which many countries aspired. That time is now officially over. I’m so tired of this “9/11 changed everything” argument. If our principles are so easily compromised by one terrorist act, then they were worth nothing to begin with. So now we stand as hypocrites before the civilized world and a beacon of light to any repressive authoritarian thirdworld shithole with a desire to subdue its dissidents. USA! USA! …I need a drink.