This kind of thing again raises my mystification with the cult of John McCain. I think he's done some impressive things in his career. No question. And his treatment by our president in the 2000 primary was positively disgraceful. That affair definitively showed George W. Bush to be one of the world's biggest slimeballs. So I have some feelings of sympathy still on that score. But in terms of his policy preferences, aside from his valiant tilting-at-windmills approach to attacking "pork" projects, and his willingness to not always tow a partisan line (though he still usually does), he's really a bit scary. Of course he's much more "conservative" than he's usually portrayed (we are in a weird and lazy media world that measures one's "moderateness" on the basis of how often you publicly question the president and his policies). But more than that he's one of the leading examples of giant-government conservatism (the sort pushed by our president). He likes big government, and he calls for more regulation and government power with great frequency. And this proposal - yipes. If he thinks that this is the kind of thing that calls for government intervention - what doesn't?
Posted by armand at December 5, 2004 02:30 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics