John McCain Strikes Again

So yesterday, John McCain declared that the amnesty plan supported by him and 3 other Republican senators is all about "Elections....The Republican Party is losing support of our Hispanic citizens.” Put aside the curious notion that a path to citizenship for 11 million Illegal Aliens will benefit anybody other than the Democrat Party; why would McCain purposely make the Republican Party look like a bunch of hacks grasping for votes while the nation wallows in an economic crisis unlike any since the Great Depression?

Embracing this distraction is to be expected of the Democrats: they have every reason to change the subject when it comes to government spending, and if Republicans want to gift-wrap millions of additional voters for the Democrat Party, it would be crazy for them to say no. From Republicans, though, it is downright bizarre: it is legislative malpractice for our elected officials to be distracted by this issue when our nation is being ruined by berserk government spending, yet these Republican Senators not only went down this road, they lead the way.

Even more bizarre is the inevitable outcome if the "immigration reform" they have proposed is successful: hundreds of billions of additional government spending every year.

Don't waste these words on John McCain though.  He is the Republican Party's answer to Joe Biden: an egotistical, clueless, incompetent nincompoop, interminably sucking off the taxpayer teat, albeit that Democrats, at least, have had the sense not to put Biden in a position where he can do any great damage.  McCain is a different animal, managing to let the air out of tires of the Republican Party for most of his 50+ years of "public service", and reaching its zenith - we thought - with his hapless run for the presidency in 2008.

OffHisMeds is sorry to say that the Republican Party has offered yet further evidence that it is nothing more than an appendage of the Democrat Party, wholly embracing its role from the 70s that was such a comfort to Bob Michel and Nelson Rockefeller.

It's the Tea Party or nothing, people.  The Repubs are a lost cause.