The American Human: McCain Calls the "Nuclear Option" Stupid Before Voting for It.

Thursday, April 6, 2017

McCain Calls the "Nuclear Option" Stupid Before Voting for It.

John McCain, long the leader of the free world -- hell, maybe even of the known universe, if only measured by the several million times he's been on the Sunday morning talk shows -- has finally demonstrated the sleight of hand by which he wields the levers of power. And here I thought only Donald Trump had mastered knuckleheadedness to black-belt status.

At long last John McCain has outstripped his own baloney.

I suppose I shouldn't cast blame only on McCain. All fifty-two Republican senators voted to blow up the filibuster. But this? Really?

Sen. John McCain says anyone who thinks the “nuclear option” is good for the Senate is a “stupid idiot” https://t.co/QsvQqPjFpl
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 4, 2017

Johnny, you have redefined outrage, for generations to come.

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The American Human is written by Calvin Ross, a retired teacher who at various points in life has been a musician, woodworker, restaurateur, narrator, English teacher in Japan, novelist, technology journalist, and private tutor to Japanese children here in the U.S.

Happily residing in the wine country of Sonoma County north of San Francisco, Calvin has lived in the Philippines, the Netherlands, and the aforementioned Japan, as well as in Chicago, Colorado, Georgia, and many different towns in California, including, of all places, the Mojave Desert.

Calvin, you may note quickly, is a liberal progressive who doesn't think being called a socialist is all that bad, especially since he sort of would like living in Denmark if it weren't so cold. He blogs because he can.