SLAM! Sharron Angle SMACKS-Down John McCain

Yesterday John McCain got stood up on the Senate floor and displayed once again why he lost the 2008 Presidential election, the man who was a hero in the military does not show the same bravery in Politics.  Rather than take a real stand, he looks for the mediocre middle and finds a place to hide.

McCain yesterday, made an anti-tea party speech:

Mr. McCain mocked Tea Party-allied Republicans in the House for believing — wrongly, he said — that President Obama and Democrats will get the blame for a default if Republicans refuse to increase the nation’s debt ceiling.

By that flawed logic, “Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced budget amendment and reform entitlements and the Tea Party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth,” he said, quoting a Wall Street Journal editorial.

“This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell into G.O.P. nominees,” he jeered, referring to two losing Tea Party candidates for the Senate in 2010.

Strong  words for a guy who less than a year ago was running around his state begging  tea partiers to vote for him saying, "no please, I promise, I really am a conservative!"

Sharron Angle responded to McCain this morning delivering a well-deserved smack down. Giving him a new nickname, The Lord of Tarp:

A statement from a 'Tea Party hobbit'

One man in Washington, who chose Sarah Palin to be his VP running-mate and came to Nevada to campaign for me last year in the Senate race against Harry Reid, is now promoting attacks against Tea Party activists, ordinary American citizens, and fiscally conservative members of Congress – all of whom are adamantly opposed to continuing the deficit-spending strategies proposed by some congressional members and the president.

Ironically, this man campaigned for Tea Party support in his last re-election, but now throws Christine O’Donnell and I into the harbor with Sarah Palin. As in the fable, it is the hobbits who are the heroes and save the land. This Lord of the TARP actually ought to read to the end of the story and join forces with the Tea Party, not criticize it.

It is regrettable that a man seeking dialogue, action and cooperation for votes on the floor of the United States Senate has only one strategy to achieve that effort: name-calling. Nice.

It is similarly unfortunate that Senator McCain brings no new ideas to the Senate floor. In fact, so unoriginal is Senator McCain’s effort that he is reduced to borrowing words from an editorial – rather than bringing anything constructive to this debate.


While Senator McCain advocates raising the debt ceiling as a solution – world markets and credit rating industries propose to down-grade our credit worthiness, impacting the value of the U.S. dollar and the state of our economy because of our world-famous spending problem.

Senator McCain can continue on with his borrowed soliloquies, just as he can continue to vote to raise our nation’s debt ceiling – all in an effort to spend money that we don’t have, to fund programs and policies that don’t work, with a currency that continues to lose its value.

Meanwhile, we look forward to meeting members of Congress and the President at the polls in 2012… when ‘We the People’ choose the names we call to serve us in Washington – and we will keep in mind those who supported increasing our nation’s mountain of debt, what could be called their very own Mount Doom.

 John McCain has proven himself to be exactly the type of Republican we do not need. It is one thing to get up and urge compromise, but to demonize a large segment of the populace (one that he worked so hard to recruit just last year) shows how that he is out of touch.  Just who is he trying to impress by bashing the tea party? What is he trying to prove?

I suppose he is just trying to let the Democrats know that he is still out there and still on their side, he certainly doesn't act as if he is on the side of the GOP.