Republicans: Bobbling the Majority – Redux

Senator John McCain signaled his support on Friday for a compromise in which the White House might allow Senate leaders access to highly classified documents in return for a final vote early next month on Mr. Bolton’s nomination as United Nations ambassador. Read the story here.

McCain is really taking it to Senate Majority leader Bill Frist. Frist has been bobbling the Republican Senate Majority as reported by Flap here.

Captain Ed over at Captain’s Quarters weighs in here:

Just as with the judicial confirmations, it has nothing to do with John Bolton as a nominee, but instead amounts to nothing less than a usurpation of power — not just between the Senate and the Presidency, but a usurpation of majority rule. The Democrats have stopped pretending it has any other purpose.

That message has yet to reach John McCain, or he simply doesn’t care. It gives him another opportunity to stick a white hat and ride a donkey to the rescue of the Democrats, whooping and hollering all along the way in order to make sure that every newspaper sees how reasonable he is. In his own way, he has become the Jimmy Carter and/or the Neville Chamberlain of the Senate: he jumps into disagreements and surrenders almost everything he can in order to wave a piece of paper over his head and claim victory.

John McCain is for John McCain. How many times have we seen unanticipated and disastrous political results with his obsession for publicity stained marks on them: his Republican primary campaign agsinst President Bush, campaign finance reform with Russ Feingold, appointments to the Federal Election Commission, judicial filibusters – nuclear option and now John Bolton.

I blame Bill Frist for this debacle more than John McCain, however. McCain is an unprincipled glory hound who stands ever ready to sell out the Constitution in order to get the attention he craves. It’s Bill Frist’s job to keep him on a short leash. If he’s not up for that job, then he needs to turn it over to someone else — someone who would have been bright enough not to bring Bolton’s nomination to the floor this week in the first place.

Well said Captain Ed.

With the judicial filibuster debacle Frist has already pissed away his chance for the presidency. It was a poor deal and Frist showed no leadership.

Frist should be able to count and miscalculated by bringing Bolton’s nomination to the floor. Republicans deserve more than a bobbler with their majority.

Frist should step down.

H/T Huffington Post