I have watched the US Congress very closely since the general election of 2008 and have witnessed a few things that I find interesting……for one, the extreme partisanship……the obstructionism and the all round political tap dance that has been playing out in Washington….

We watched a whole group of people held “hostage”,  for lack of a better word,  so that another class could make more money and the promise was that these rich people would create more jobs and make the economy more solvent……then we saw a group who wrapped themselves in the flag after 9/11 refusing medical aid to the 9/11 responders…….or the the health sector, especially the insurance, get millions more customers in a mandate…..or the group that bitches that programs are too expensive and not funded….push through other programs that are NOT paid for and did not use the hearing process, that they demand for other programs…..

With all that amusing stuff, the one that is most surprising is the “maverick”  John  McCain….after his loss to Obama in 2008, he has become the cranky old man of the Belt Way……his maverick days are far behind him now and his days are filled with bitterness……….

Joe Klein: “I used to know a different John McCain, the guy who proposed comprehensive immigration reform with Ted Kennedy, the guy — a conservative, to be sure, but an honorable one — who refused to indulge in the hateful strictures of his party’s extremists. His public fall has been spectacular, a consequence of politics — he ‘needed’ to be reelected — and personal pique. He’s a bitter man now, who can barely tolerate the fact that he lost to Barack Obama.”

McCain should go ahead and leave the Senate….he is NO longer a elder lawmaker…but rather a bitter old man that is holding a grudge for losing to Obama….