McCain enraged over Reagan remarks

Okay, this is just deranged. McCain threatened to block a key Cabinet appointment to Interior because the nominee, David Hayes, said something in 2006 about Ronnie Reagan that Johnny-boy found offensive. And what was this horrible statement, you ask?

In the article, Hayes wrote that “the conservative political agenda in the West is grounded in hoary stereotypes about the region and its people” and that “out of this conservative world view emerges the stereotypical Western man (and it is unquestionably a ‘he’)—a rugged, gun-toting individualist who fiercely guards every man’s right to drill, mine, log, or do whatever he damn well pleases on the land” and that “Like Ronald Reagan before him, President Bush has embraced the Western stereotype to the point of adopting some of its affectations—the boots, brush-clearing, and get-the-government-off-our-backs bravado.”

Yes, you read that correctly. McCain wants to obstruct the appointment because Hayes called St. Ronnie a fake cowboy -- just like Bush. One has to wonder whether McCain became so addicted to the spotlight that he'll say any crazy thing to "win" the news cycle, or whether dementia really is setting in and he's forgotten that in this country, we're allowed to criticize our presidents. Even the dead ones.

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