McCain, Straight-Talking Away

If you haven't had your John McCain fix in a while, you should definitely read this Dana Milbank sketch of the senator's appearance at the Naval Academy last week as part of MTV's guest lecturer program, mtvU. During the hour-long talk, Milbank notes, McCain managed to:
- announce details of a piece of legislation he's sponsoring with Ted Kennedy to deal with illegal immigration.
- tell the audience that Bush would be the commencement speaker at the Naval Academy's graduation before that was supposed to be public knowledge.
- call for a blanket ban on steroids for all professional sports.

The Arizonan also suggested that President Bush "needs to start vetoing some bills" and (music to this RINO's ears) said that Republicans "are abandoning one of the pillars of our Republican Party" by abandoning fiscal responsibility in the name of tax breaks and ballooning federal spending.

"Much of the session," Milbank writes, "was vintage McCain: protesting 'outrageous' congressional pet projects such as studying bear DNA and cow flatulence. Asked how to deal with pork-barreling lawmakers, McCain deadpanned: 'Kill them.'"

All these things, and so much more: why this RINO, just like the Bull Moose, would still "crawl across a field of broken glass for John McCain."