Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Senator McNasty, John McCain, is only relevant to his political base — the Beltway media. No one else gives a damn what Arizona's angry old man has to say.
This is why i despise the Beltway media: "If it's Sunday, it's John McCain." This Sunday was Meet The Press Gregory, where McCain has his own green room. The Neocon war monger Senator McNasty was engaging in "Benghazi Fever" to give political cover to his puppet boy, Little Lindsey Graham, from a Tea Party challenge for reelection. Politico’s David Rogers reports today why John McCain has so decisively turned against Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense, and confirms that it’s all about Lindsey!
Steve Benen adds, McCain lost in a fog of partisan rage:
Looking back at the tragic and deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in
Benghazi last fall, we know quite a bit about what happened. We also
know, thanks to an independent investigation, that "Republican charges
of a cover-up" were "pure fiction."
But as Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) argued yesterday, he can't be bothered with facts — he has a partisan vendetta to pursue.
"Meet the Press" host David Gregory pressed the Republican senator on
the unsubstantiated charge that the Obama administration has engaged in
a "massive cover-up." Gregory asked a simple question: "A cover-up of
what?"
McCain, just a few days after explaining how important it is not to be "disagreeable," became unusually belligerent, asking the host whether he cares about the deaths of four Americans.
Gregory
tried to get an answer anyway, responding, "You said there is a
cover-up. A cover-up of what?" McCain, unable to think of anything
substantive, said, "Of the information concerning the deaths of four
brave Americans."
Even for McCain, whose capacity has deteriorated sharply in recent years, this was a pathetic display.
Remember, McCain has had several months to think about this. He's sat
through classified and unclassified briefings. He's participated in a
series of congressional hearings. He's (presumably) read the results of
independent investigations, and had his own questions answered, verbally
and in writing.
And yet after all of this, McCain is not only ignorant of the basics, he doesn't understand his own conspiracy theory. The senator, after pondering the issue since September, still believes there's an elaborate "cover-up," but doesn't know why he thinks this.
The exchange on "Meet the Press" wasn't awkward; it wasn't bizarre; it was alarming.
This was the point at which it might have dawned on everyone watching,
including journalists who still consider the senator an credible on
foreign policy and national security, "Good lord, John McCain has no
idea what he's talking about."
Spoiler alert: I've known this for years!
I hate to be a stickler for such things, but as a rule, when the
ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee accuses the White
House on national television of orchestrating a cover-up as part of a
terrorist attack, it's not too much to ask that the senator have some idea what he's talking about.
But
in this case, McCain is simply lost in a fog of his own partisan rage.
At this point, the man doesn't understand what he doesn't understand,
and worse, he just doesn't care. McCain no longer thinks it matters that
he can't back up his accusations; he simply wants to keep making them.
And if you press him for details he should understand, the increasingly
unhinged senator will suggest you're indifferent to the deaths of
Americans at terrorists' hands.
Why? Because he's John McCain.
John McCain debases the U.S. Senate, and embarrasses the state of Arizona. Please just go.