Grinding John McCain

I don’t mean to keep picking on John McCain despite his being about the easiest person in the world to needle. Today it is my sad responsibility to tell you that John McCain is going to crack. Years in a Hanoi prison cell under direct and ferocious torture could not make him cry, `Uncle’, but he now faces a far more formidable foe, the enraged taxpayers of red and blue states who are demanding a pound of someone’s flesh.

Little did John McCain realize that when he flip flopped on torture by agents of the United States that he would be the first visible victim. The first inkling of our inhumanity was the Washington Post – ABC poll that shows the senator suffering the electric shock treatment that he has fallen far behind in the election.

It’s bad enough that McCain has been linked by the taxpayers/voters with the culprits of the present financial calamity, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, but the representatives of both parties on Capitol Hill are preparing any number of devices to assure that the voters can have no doubt that John McCain is as responsible as the beloved pair he is being chained to as victims are offered to the public.

Congress and George W. Bush are going to bail out Wall Street and Main Street, but there will be no bill unless John McCain personally approves it. As you know, John’s out on the hustings telling his beloved and fast shrinking voter base that he’s got a rope and he’s going to use to hang the evil greedy bankers from the tree that grows in Brooklyn.

Sadly, only now is John wising up to the notion that he is going to hauled back to the nest of evil doers second only to Wall Street, Washington, D.C., where he will be publicly tortured in the well of the Senate.

As you know, John McCain has blamed democrats and republicans, President Bush and SEC Chairman Cox, the regulators and the deregulators, and, I believe, you and me, dear reader, for the financial debacle facing the country, indeed the world. The only two people not on the candidates list of culprits are McCain and his running mate.

So as those kind, generous and always gentle folk on Capitol Hill prepare a package to bail out wall Street, Main Street, your moronic neighbors who bought far too much for far too dear, and everyone else who can vote on November 4, there’s one little extra waiting for Mr. Clean, John McCain, he’s going to have to pay – big time.

The bailout won’t happen unless John McCain walks into the well and votes “Aye.”

Has there ever been anything more cruel devised in America? I think not.

But as John slinks into the well, he can take heart by reciting Dickens, “It is a far, far better thing that I do now, than I have ever done before…it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before.”

And I ain’t b.s.n’ ya.