McCain Blasts Bush -- Shoots Self Again

John McCain lashed out at George Bush and the entire Republican party in an interview with Washington Times reporters Joseph Curl and Stephen Dinan. He's desperately trying to separate himself from the rest of the party and Bush's record, but the problem is that he's voted with Bush 90% of the time. When he criticizes them, he criticizes himself. It's inescapable.

"We just let things get completely out of hand," he said of his own party's rule in the past eight years.

"Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously," Mr. McCain said in an interview with The Washington Times. "Those are just some of them," he said with a laugh

In addition to the long list of failures he attributed to Mr. Bush, Mr. McCain blamed the president for supporting the Medicare prescription-drug bill, saying, "They didn't pay for it."

I'm sure he's not making any friends with his congressional collegues over this, being that they have enough problems getting re-elected without getting blasted from their own party's candidate. We have Palin campaigning to energize the right side of the republican party, most of whom support Bush, and now McCain is doing the opposite.

It's tough to make headway when rowing in the opposite direction from your shipmate.