From the Senate floor, John McCain just unleashed a load of righteous fury on Ted Cruz, who hours before had had the usual poor taste of comparing those who would allow the House bill into the upper chamber to appeasers of Nazi Germany.
You can mess with McCain's head in many ways, but one doesn't fuck with his patriotic pride--a non-debating point that the Arizona senator made rather clear just now.
I was intrigued by the rhetorical manner in which McCain did it. He didn't rage, he didn't even raise his voice. He spoke softly and reservedly--not as though he'd lose it if he let himself go, but as though he was genuinely heartsick at the malevolent depths to which Sen. Cruz had gone in his pretend filibuster.
My father and grandfather were among those who never appeased the Nazis, said McCain without the emphasis, which only thunderously emphasized his comment. And to make any comparison of then and that to now and this--voting on an Obamacare measure--is a "disservice" to all involved.
It was really quite touching. And I'm rarely moved by John McCain.