The word clownish comes to mind. This geezer is nothing but a doddering, old man. Like Grassley, he seems to be in the early stages of dementia. He’s also extremely crabby and seems unable to express a simple thought. When you look at the GOP it’s clear why there having problems. Many of their leaders are well passed their prime and should probably give some new blood a shot.

Oh poor roxsteady, you remind me of putty. I mean you take the bait hook, line, and sinker! When they say jump, do you simply jump OR ask how high?

It sounds as if you’re off your meds! It’s clear that your reading comprehension skills are nonexistant. Why don’t you go back to playing with yourself because I have no interest in playing with you.

I am so glad that J McCain didn’t win the presidency. He’s too old and too hot tempered..We need term limits for these old demented codgers.

This stuff is only going to escalate into 2010…not necessarily involving McCain, though. All these members of Congress know that the spotlight is squarely on them. Anger will boil over, and we’ll see it. The Republicans will point to the Dems…that they’ve sucked since ruling the roost since 2007. For their part, the Dems will attempt to convince any listeners that, no, they haven’t sucked and single-digit approval ratings don’t really mean much.

Talk about burying the lede….

uh…Joe,… on the way to noticing McCain’s pique, did the actual content of his remarks ever reach your cerebral cortex?

The fustraition level is showing all over…. and we have Obama to thank for it. When is this ‘bringing together of the country’ supposed to take place anyway? 2011? 2012? :(

Uh, that’s angry?

Is congress supposed to be pre-school?

Apparently so. Our whole system is debauched by all the Miss Manners concern trolls who get the vapors when someone raises their voice -as if Congress was was pre-school where we dare not hurt anyone’s pwecious wittle feewings.

Bringing the country together isn’t one sided. The President has reached out to Republicans and they’ve slapped his hand away. Surely you don’t expect the President to kiss their asses? They’re beneath him and should never forget that. Republicans had 8 years and look what happened. Anyone who thinks the economy began to decline when Obama took office is an idiot. I love how the people who didn’t vote for him keep talking about the country waking up. Trust me, the country wasn’t asleep. The teabaggers are completely ignorant. They’re bitching about taxes when this President cut taxes for anyone making less than $250,000 a year. And judging from the looks of them there’s no way these people make that kind of money. Bush spent $1 Trillion dollars on these 2 wars, didn’t pay for either of them and we didn’t hear a word from them. No, their anger is because they got their asses kicked again last year. This time by the Negro and it’s killing them.

old Wifecheater MacCrashfiveplanes might want to watch it. they will switch his meds and move his naptime to during afternoon session if he keeps acting up in class.

he looks and sounds like a colicky baby. waah waah waah and then soil his diaper again. repeat the process until he goes to sleep and then the same thing again tomorrow.

at least thurmond and byrd had the decency to keep their mouths shut once they realized that they no longer made sense. maybe byrds staff can get the word to old Torturemakesyousmart.

The networks of CSPAN have really opened up the democratic process by allowing the “sausage-making” to be viewed by so many. Hopefully, we’ll never get to the day, the cable companies decide to pull their support.

It’s embarrassing when he can’t even keep his train of thought and just starts repeating himself. Grassley is also guilty of this. I’m sure McCain is really pissed tonight because Palin showed up at the Girdiron Club Dinner tonight. She was the Keynote Speaker for the Republicans and Barney Frank was the Keynote Speaker for the Dems. At least now he can argue with that dinning room table face to face. It’s interesting that she would show her face at all considering it’s an audience made up of journalists. Sucking up to those media elites and intellectuals?

It’s one thing to disagree with the majority party but, to waste weeks and weeks with stalling and other procedural stunts is a disgrace. Just look at the unemployment extensions. It was delayed by 30 days because Republicans tried to attach ACORN legislation and other things that were unrelated to the actual bill. When it was finally voted on it passed 90-0. There were likely many people out there suffering and they may not realize that it was Republicans who held it up for BS. And they expect anyone other than idiots in the South to vote for them? No wonder they keep losing. They should take a good look at that electoral map again.

Roxsteady, sorry for the delayed response but I went to the carnival to get my meds from McCain. Yes, let’s discuss the GOP problems right now because that’s clearly the relevant topic at this juncture considering independent support has swung to the right as well as the nations. I can ONLY hope you and the CORRUPT media keep making this a NON-ISSUE. Also, what reading comprehension skills do you speak? Perhaps you should concentrate on writing skills. Today, we spell nonexistant like this—-> nonexistent.

It’s sad to see McCain in such a obvious state of decline — and it happened so quickly after he embraced the failed policies of the failed Bush Administration. That kool aid was laced with poison and decimated McCain’s campaign.

WaterLoo — I wouldn’t be so critical of writing skills, if I were you.

Oh yes. McShame is famous for his temper – among many other things. AKA: “Ace” McCain. “The Hanoi
Hilton ‘Songbird.’” It goes on….

Mr.Abrams, you may want to enlist the help of a moderator for this blog. These commenters aren’t partisans, they’re nuckin’ futz.

@timzank I totally agree with you. I understand all of the McCain bashing. Thank goodness he isn’t our president.