Among those clearly not impressed with the health care reform-loathing performance farce of full-of-bluster Republican Sen. Ted Cruz: fellow Rep. Sen. John McCain. “Elections have consequences, and those elections were clear,” pointed out McCain, clearly at odds with the sort of Tea Party-inspired, Washington brinksmanship personified by Cruz. “A majority of the American people supported the president of the United States and renewed his stewardship of this country.”
Moreover, McCain was visibly incensed by Cruz’s anti-compromise analogy that compared Republicans not in solidarity with his grandstanding to World War II Hitler appeasers.
How ironic that one of the biggest, loudest advocates of the Cruz-missile strategy is Sarah Palin, the shrilly antagonistic spokeswoman for the political pitchfork and flambeaux set. Had it not been for McCain’s panicky, pandering move to put her on his 2008 presidential ticket, Palin wouldn’t be a player at all, let alone a high-profile, disruptive force. That self-serving, political “Hail Mary” still haunts America.