“D’OH! 

As Homer Simpson is fond of saying when he realizes he has really screwed up . . .

John McCain was incensed last week during the Senate debate on the Healthcare Reform Bill when Al Franken objected to Joe Lieberman’s request for an extension of time in order to finish his comments on the floor of the Senate.  McCain noted his twenty years of experience in the Senate,  characterizing Franken’s actions as unprecedented and disrespectful, and not in accord with the civility ostensibly associated with the Senate. 

Oops!

Guess McCain forgot about the incident on October 10, 2002 when he objected to a request for and additional minute of time from Senator Mark Dayton (D – Minn.) to finish his remarks during the rushed debate on whether the Senate should authorize a resolution giving Bush the power to declare war on Iraq (and now McCain is worried about the “rushed” [six month] Healthcare reform debate?).  Senator Dayton was attempting to introduce an amendment that would have restricted Bush’s constitutional powers to go to war against Iraq. 

Just think where we might be today had McCain not interrupted Senator Dayton that day, had decorum prevailed, and had that amendment passed? 

“D’oh!

P.S.  If you think my criticism of John McCain is predicated on some “Liberal bias” . . . not only did I vote for him in the 2000 Republican Presidential Primary, I have a autographed copy of his book, Faith of our Fathers, with a personal inscription addressed to me – which I have kept so that I might have standing to expose McCain for the man he has become.  I stood in line for over an hour at the Johnson County Library waiting to shake his hand that afternoon.  Today, I wouldn’t let him kiss my . . .