Crossposted with extreme love and respectfulness from Chug Bleach
For America's favorite 116 year old senator, being a maverick means never caving to special interests. When some people said, "John, Iraqi children are tired of being murdered", John McCain looked those cowards straight in the eye and said, "Urrrrragghhhhhh...", and drifted off to sleep. But when concerned onlookers jostled him awake to make sure he was still breathing, John McCain made it clear that this war will continue until every last living thing in Iraq is dead..
So when a vote to rule cloture on Republicans attempts to filibuster raising the minimum wage was brought to the floor of the senate, John McCain didn't back down to the working poor. He stood tall, and told those vultures that he'd be damned if he was going to let his illegitimate black child live in a world where a man making minimum wage could have both shelter and dignity.
But he wasn't done there. Hand in hand with most unpopular senator in the universe Wayne Allard, John McCain joined in a vote to abolish the federal minimum wage all together. This would mean that people in Kansas could be offered a minimum wage of $2.65 an hour, equaling out to a healthy $106 pre-tax dollars a week. I'm happy over the defeat of this piece of absolute insanity because it would have led to a collapse of the standard of living in Kansas, yet saddened that Kansas would have been perfect for the Mad Max inspired apocalyptic future we've all been banking on for so long.
Some people might call that kind of vote suicidal for a man hoping to be president. Some might call it ruthless and possibly pointing to a lack of any kind of human goodness or decency in the man, making McCain this kind of void wherein no hope or light escape... A black hole of evil, if you will. But John McCain isn't the kind of man to listen to polls, or special interest groups, or his constituents living below the poverty line.
John McCain only answers to the American voter.
And to the voices in his head that make him do crazy, crazy things.
And possibly to whatever fundamentalist cult group he's peddling ass to this weekend.