John McBush Genuflects for the Votes of Monarchists

Sen. John (McBush) McCain spent May 13 near Seattle meeting with a group of superannuated local Republicans who still mumble lip service to the environment, though in practice for the past 20 years their efforts for the environment have chiefly been silence and sometimes error and even deliberate attack.

The session was closed to the public, for reasons neither major Seattle paper nor Associated Press made clear.

When reporters did question McCain none apparently managed to ask him why environmental organizations rank McCain’s efforts for the environment well below 40 percent.

Nor apparently did anyone weasel in a query about McCain’s recent harangue about “activist judges,” a Republican and otherwise reactionary cliche about judges who render opinions based on law that run afoul of conservative dogmas–such as, for instance, saying prisoners held by the U.S. must be afforded the Constitutional privilege of being able to have lawyers and be able to question witnesses. Oh, the horror of it! Especially since 60 percent of federal judges now sitting are Republicans, appointed by such Marxists as Ronald Reagan, George Bush I and George Bush II.

McBush made his pro-forma howl about federal judges to ear-suck votes from the many monarchists of the right who slaver to give the President, provided he’s Republican, the powers of Roman emperor. (What they will do when a Democratic president claims the same powers I dare not think: Fall on their martini glasses probably.)

Even when McBush made his announcement, no reporters then bothered to ask McBush whether he would appoint another Catholic to the Supreme Court, where five Catholics–Alito, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia and Thomas-- now make up the conservative majority and usually strain the law through eyes of good Catholic boys who memorized their catechisms and think the present mob of self-annoited eunuchs in the Vatican can have nothing but the purest thoughts.

McBush so far has enjoyed a pleasant life with the pressies who follow him around, chiefly, by all accounts, because he likes to sit down with reporters to B.S. and have a snort, two things reporters love because it (A) makes them feel important, (B) may provide a news story with a new lead and (C) because in good conscience they may put the booze on their expense accounts.

Unfortunately, all that denies the rest of us a chance to see what McBush says when he has to answer an intelligent, hard-ass question and so reveal the qualities of mind and character he wants to elevate into the Oval Office, where he can snooze away his latter years, interrupted only when the Vice President comes by daily to take his pulse and blood pressure.