John McCain Accurately Describes Rand Paul and Ted Cruz: “Wacko Birds”

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John McCain is not wrong this time: McCain Calls Paul, Cruz, Amash ‘Wacko Birds’.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is continuing to criticize his fellow Republicans for their filibuster of incoming CIA Director John O. Brennan over drone policy. In an interview with the Huffington Post, McCain referred to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) as “wackos.”

“They were elected, nobody believes that there was a corrupt election, anything else,” McCain said. “But I also think that when, you know, it’s always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.”

Asked to clarify, McCain said he was referencing “Rand Paul, Cruz, Amash, whoever.”

Yup.

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36 comments
1 A Mom Anon  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 1:52:07pm

Says the guy who helped bring us Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods.

Thanks Senator, really.

2 erik_t  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 1:54:46pm
“But I also think that when, you know, it’s always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.”

Says Grade A USDA Choice prima donna (R-MTP).

3 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 1:58:23pm

McCain’s recent fundraising emails have been pretty apocalyptic these days too.

I wish the GOP infighting would translate into some of them rising above party and working with Obama and the Democrats.

4 blueraven  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 1:59:37pm

Even a broken clock and all that.

But he is right, the most looney-tune, loudest voices get the attention.

Benghazi, Senator?

5 Skip Intro  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:01:29pm

re: #1 A Mom Anon

Says the guy who helped bring us Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods.

Thanks Senator, really.

It can be argued that the selection of Sarah Palin as an acceptable candidate for the second most powerful position in the world by a major political party opened the gates for the teabagger takeover of the GOP.

Thanks a lot, John. Enjoy your legacy.

6 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:04:26pm

I wonder if he was trying to think of “Angry Birds?”

7 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:05:38pm

You want wacko? Try this:

FRC’s Peter Sprigg Suggests Kidnapping Laws Shouldn’t Protect Gay Parents

Family Research Council president Tony Perkins hosted senior fellow Peter Sprigg on Washington Watch yesterday to discuss the sentencing of pastor Kenneth Miller for aiding Lisa Miller (no relation), who kidnapped her daughter, Isabella Miller-Jenkins. Perkins recently praised Kenneth Miller’s “courage” in aiding the kidnapping scheme.

Lisa Miller disobeyed a court decision that gave Isabella’s other mother, her former partner Janet Jenkins, visitation rights and, as a result, the courts eventually transferred custody to Jenkins. Miller then fled the country with Isabella to a Mennonite compound in Central America.

Sprigg told Perkins that Jenkins, who was in a civil union with Miller at the time of Isabella’s birth, should not be considered Isabella’s parent because she is not biologically related and therefore shouldn’t be protected by the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act. According to Sprigg, paternity and kidnapping laws should only apply to heterosexual couples.

8 The Ghost of a Flea  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:05:50pm

So the paranoid reactionaries have moved on to a stronger, more concentrated form of derp?

Whodathunkit.

9 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:06:00pm

I don’t know if I’m hearing things but I think I heard Jesse Jackson compare Hugo Chavez to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in an interview with Wolf Blitzer.

10 Achilles Tang  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:09:15pm

re: #9 NJDhockeyfan

I don’t know if I’m hearing things but I think I heard Jesse Jackson compare Hugo Chavez to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in an interview with Wolf Blitzer.

Are you surprised?

11 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:10:45pm

Sandy Rios: Female Justices ‘Rudely’ Interrupting Scalia, ‘Speaking Inappropriately’

Rios disapproves of Obama’s Supreme Court nominees, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, respectively the third and fourth women ever to sit on the high court. Sotomayor and Kagan, Rios says, have been forgetting their place and behaving “rudely,” “interrupting” and “speaking inappropriately” to, of all people, Justice Antonin Scalia.

While Levey correctly notes that “Scalia can give it out as well as take it,” he agrees with Rios that Sotomayor, the Supreme Court’s first Latina justice, “has occasionally, at least, stepped over the line.” In particular, he says Sotomayor – who he once accused of supporting “violent Puerto Rican terrorists” — “sort of lost it” during arguments on the Voting Rights Act, when she contradicted Scalia’s stunning assertion that the law represents a “perpetuation of racial entitlement.”

In fact, while Scalia’s bombast provoked audible gasps in the hearing room, Sotomayor waited several minutes before calmly asking the attorney challenging the Voting Rights Act, “Do you think that the right to vote is a racial entitlement in Section 5?”

Later, Rios, with an impressive lack of self-awareness, marvels that progressive groups criticized Scalia for his remarks. “Groups on the left,” Levey responds, “shall we say, like to personalize things.”

12 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:15:02pm

re: #7 Kragar (Antichrist )

You want wacko? Try this:

FRC’s Peter Sprigg Suggests Kidnapping Laws Shouldn’t Protect Gay Parents

Can you picture Jesus saying kidnapping is ok?

Neither can I.

13 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:15:30pm

re: #10 Achilles Tang

Are you surprised?

I thought sis statements after Chavez died threaded the needle pretty well. He stressed the importance of dialogue without outright praising him. I thought people were just making too big a deal out of it. Looks like I was wrong.

14 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:16:25pm

re: #11 Kragar (Antichrist )

Sandy Rios: Female Justices ‘Rudely’ Interrupting Scalia, ‘Speaking Inappropriately’

Amazing that a woman can so easily run down other successful women like that.

15 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:18:08pm

re: #11 Kragar (Antichrist )

Sandy Rios: Female Justices ‘Rudely’ Interrupting Scalia, ‘Speaking Inappropriately’

I’m looking for fainting couches and pearls…

But I guess the Concerned wingnuts have no problem with Scalia’s “voting as racial entitlement” comments.

16 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:19:14pm

re: #15 Bulworth

But I guess the Concerned wingnuts have no problem with Scalia’s “voting as racial entitlement” comments.

Bingo.

17 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:20:04pm

Another pundit gets caught having interns write their columns
Juan Williams’ plagiarism problem

EXCLUSIVE: Fox News pundit blames researcher for word-for-word similarities. “Unacceptable,” says editor

18 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:20:49pm

re: #10 Achilles Tang

Are you surprised?

I know he liked the guy but comparing him to our founding fathers is kinda weird.

19 Achilles Tang  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:21:17pm

re: #13 Killgore Trout

I thought sis statements after Chavez died threaded the needle pretty well. He stressed the importance of dialogue without outright praising him. I thought people were just making too big a deal out of it. Looks like I was wrong.

Every time I turn on NPR in the car they are going on about Chavez. The main reason he is famous is because he hobnobbed with the worst dictators on the planet, otherwise he has failed as a leader of a country with great resources. He bought votes, (not to mention stole) not earned them.

20 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:21:28pm

SO ACCORDING TO THIS WINGNUT WE SHOULD INCARCERATE MICHELE BACHMANN BEFORE SHE COMMITS A MASS SHOOTING.

21 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:21:29pm
22 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:22:39pm

re: #20 Vicious Babushka

SO ACCORDING TO THIS WINGNUT WE SHOULD INCARCERATE MICHELE BACHMANN BEFORE SHE COMMITS A MASS SHOOTING.

I’m not up to date on my psychopaths. Who’s the dude in the middle with the Beatles haircut?

23 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:23:35pm

OH NOES, LIKE CANADA!

24 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:23:53pm

re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m not up to date on my psychopaths. Who’s the dude in the middle with the Beatles haircut?

Adam Lanza.

25 b_sharp  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:24:41pm

re: #23 Vicious Babushka

OH NOES, LIKE CANADA!

Sun News = Fox News.

26 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:27:49pm

re: #23 Vicious Babushka

OH NOES, LIKE CANADA!

CANADIANS CAN OWN GUNS, just NOT hand guns!

Heck with the proper permit a Canadian can own an ASSAULT RIFLE!

I am tired of these morons treating my country and my people as if we are a bunch of pansy ass, wimpy momma’s boys simply because we aren’t allowed as many GUNZ as Americans.

27 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:28:16pm

re: #24 Vicious Babushka

Adam Lanza.

WOW…really? That photo looks like something out of the 1960s.

28 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:29:02pm

re: #20 Vicious Babushka

SO ACCORDING TO THIS WINGNUT WE SHOULD INCARCERATE MICHELE BACHMANN BEFORE SHE COMMITS A MASS SHOOTING.

Irony. Maybe they should grab him. :D

29 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:32:48pm

re: #20 Vicious Babushka

The crazies should not be able to be Law Abiding Gun Owners. But there shouldn’t be any background checks, licensing, or any other hinderances to gun ownership for Law Abiding Patriotic Americans either. Just let gun shops decide who or who is not a Law Abiding Patriotic American. //

30 b_sharp  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:39:18pm

re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg

CANADIANS CAN OWN GUNS, just NOT hand guns!

Heck with the proper permit a Canadian can own an ASSAULT RIFLE!

I am tired of these morons treating my country and my people as if we are a bunch of pansy ass, wimpy momma’s boys simply because we aren’t allowed as many GUNZ as Americans.

We can own any number of guns. We just don’t.

31 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:40:06pm

NOT THE BIBLE>?!!IO&* SEE IO TOLD YOU HE”S A MOOZLIM!_)*&

32 Tigger2  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:45:12pm

re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg

CANADIANS CAN OWN GUNS, just NOT hand guns!

Heck with the proper permit a Canadian can own an ASSAULT RIFLE!

I am tired of these morons treating my country and my people as if we are a bunch of pansy ass, wimpy momma’s boys simply because we aren’t allowed as many GUNZ as Americans.

The way I remember it on most big conflicts around the world Canada has been right there beside America, I wouldn’t call that wimpy.

33 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:46:48pm

re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg

CANADIANS CAN OWN GUNS, just NOT hand guns!

Heck with the proper permit a Canadian can own an ASSAULT RIFLE!

I am tired of these morons treating my country and my people as if we are a bunch of pansy ass, wimpy momma’s boys simply because we aren’t allowed as many GUNZ as Americans.

It was my understanding that handguns were ok as long as they had a barrel longer than 4” (minimizing the concealability of it)?

34 b_sharp  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:48:42pm

re: #33 William Barnett-Lewis

It was my understanding that handguns were ok as long as they had a barrel longer than 4” (minimizing the concealability of it)?

Lots of people own handguns. However we have no ability to carry them on the street unless part of the police or other security organization.

35 Skip Intro  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 4:58:27pm

re: #15 Bulworth

I’m looking for fainting couches and pearls…

This is my go to Huckleberry Closetcase picture, but feel free to use it.

Image: dropped.jpg

36 Ming  Sat, Mar 9, 2013 9:22:43am

re: #5 Skip Intro

It can be argued that the selection of Sarah Palin as an acceptable candidate for the second most powerful position in the world by a major political party opened the gates for the teabagger takeover of the GOP.

Thanks a lot, John. Enjoy your legacy.

It is now part of American History that in 2008, the Republican Party candidate for Vice President of the United States was mentally ill. This is a very unpleasant, uncomfortable truth. America will have to come to terms with this, if we are to move forward. We must make sure that nothing like this happens again.


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