The John McCain media used to love is resurfacing and that will be good news to Obama folk as the mindlessness of the mainstream GOP leadership begins to manifest itself big time. I predict a series of narrow Senate wins aided by about six to ten GOP sane Senators including McCain.
When theee votes have proved to be at once popular and effective in terms of their goals, the mainstream wingnut-inclined GOP will begin to harrumph. Once again it will have to decide on the best course which is to suck it up and go with the bipartisan effort, Or to veer back into the nativist Palinesque Limbaugh-listening laughingstock wing of American political life.
To the extent that McCain proves to be a prime mover in effecting bipartisan change, his power will increase and who knows what might happen to the GOP. At the moment it seems Cornyn/Cantor bound and, despite these glossy front men, it is a road that is less travelled for a very good reason. It does not really engage the problems facing Americans.
Here’s the gateway to the McCain resurrection.
The surest sign of McCain’s return to his “maverick” ways came when he caught wind of an effort by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) to delay Clinton’s confirmation vote by a day, pushing it from Tuesday to Wednesday because he was seeking greater disclosure about foreign donors to former president Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation. McCain found the objection gratuitous — despite policy disagreements with Clinton, he and most Republicans consider her well qualified — and said so publicly.
“I think that’s indicative of the role that John McCain is going to play,” said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who hatched the push-back against Cornyn’s gambit over dinner with McCain on Tuesday night, and who followed him to the floor to support Clinton’s confirmation. “He’s going to play a very active role. He’s going to try to forge bipartisan coalitions. And he won’t shy away from controversy.”
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January 26, 2009 at 10:14 am
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