Poor Grandpa McCain, he must have been napping when Barack was co-sponsoring that legislation to make those contractors accountable. Or maybe he was meeting with Halliburton or Blackwater that day.Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John 'Lil' Bush' McCain (R-Ariz.) are quietly working together on a good-government bill despite their campaign-trail battle over who is tougher against Washington’s special interests.
McCain’s Senate office contacted Obama’s office Monday night asking to sign on to a bill opening federal government contracts to public scrutiny, according to three knowledgeable sources.
Before the call, Obama had been working on the measure primarily with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), an ardent proponent of eliminating wasteful government spending and an early supporter and longtime Senate ally of McCain’s.
After learning that Obama and Coburn were introducing the bill without his backing, McCain’s staffers immediately contacted Coburn to express concern and a desire to be named as an original co-sponsor of the update. They then called Obama’s office.
Isn't it interesting how Barack Obama can still be working in the Senate -- with one the craziest wingnuts, Tom Coburn, too! -- and still campaign? And then there's Grandpa McCain who can't even make it back to DC to vote for veterans?
John McCain is pathetic and in the same lazy mold of his mentor, George Bush.
And the next time I hear some wingnut say something about, 'experience' and working 'across the aisle'; I'll remind them, who is begging whom to get on whose 'bi-partisan' legislation?
