Underrated political humorist Mark “Tongue So Firmly in Cheek As to Protrude from the Vulgar Bodily Orifice” Ambinder reaches a level of deadpan genius that Steven Wright would envy:
John McCain has released the first two ads of his 2010 Senate reelection campaign, and he’s got some sharp words for President Obama, possibly the sharpest he’s offered yet.
“President Obama is leading an extreme, left wing crusade to bankrupt America. I stand in his way every day. If I get a bruise or two knocking some sense into heads in Washington, so be it…”
A narrator calls McCain “Arizona’s last line of defense” against Obama’s agenda and says McCain leads the charge against “ridiculously unaffordable ideas like government-run health care.”
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McCain has been critical of Obama’s agenda, asconservativesRepublicans are wont to be. But he hasn’t really sought out public forums to level those attacks since Obama entered the White House…
How many times has ‘President McCain’ appeared on what Calvin Trillin called the “Sabbath Day Gasbag” TV circuit since November 2008?
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