Morning Tug Job was particularly tuggy this morning going on and on, incensed, about the pork in the bailout plan. But very conveniently for everyone's favorite grumpy old man they never, NEVER noted any that McCain voted for it anyhow. Remember "I will make them famous and you will know their names"? Well, one of those names is McCain.
With the disdain Mika and Joe showed for the "sweeteners" you'd think they would have noted the irony of the Porkhunter voting for it, but not so much.
Near the end of the show was an interview with the last angry man himself where they reiterated their disdain and with McCain bemoaned the pork laden bill never once asking him if he considered voting against it because of the pork, or why he didn't insist the pork was removed.
The real highlight of the interview is below but I can't help but interject my take on the pork: While everybody talks of bipartisanship as a goal the reality of it is that the pork exists because there is no way that even the most vitally needed legislation can pass today, on a bipartisan basis, without larding it up with these sweeteners. The thought that "pork" can be eradicated is ridiculous. The only real hope for the control of pork would be for one party to have control of the WH and significant majorities in both houses of congress. Then bills like this can be passed "clean" and the pork can go in spending appropriations bills as God intended.
But the real topper was at the end of the interview when they engaged in their light banter about the baseball playoffs (and Mika and Joe were so proud that McCain did seem to know who was in the playoffs - like parents of a child who is uncharacteristically polite in public). Joe asked McCain in he context of who would you bet one "since we know you're a betting man" McCain finished his answer (he likes the Red Sox and Dodgers by the way) by saying "But that's why I'm not a rich man."
See for yourself
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
Huh? $100M, 9 houses, 13 cars and you're not rich? Is he delusional? Doesn't everybody know already he has all that plush swag? What pretense is he trying to pass off that he's a Joe Six Pack?
Or is it that hobnobbing with billionaires and potentates as he does, going to celebrity parties on yachts in the caribbean he feels he's not "rich" he's merely say "well off"? Hm? Is he upper middle class maybe? Which is what rich kids caled themselves when I was growing up.
Maybe he wasn't kidding when he said $5M was middle class.
Did you see that one of his mansions was on the market.
2.7 acre estate, 15,000 square feet. 7 car garage. 10 fireplaces! so necessary in toasty Arizona. Many of the fireplaces has the McCain initials in stone over them so the buyer can always remember who built the place.