Talking Points Memo flags an interview that Sen. John McCain did with Fox News:


When anchor Martha MacCallum asked him about the White House’s handling of the suspension of death benefits to military families, McCain said that while the administration deserves blame it was a GOP-induced shutdown that caused the problem in the first place.

“Let’s have a little straight talk, Martha,” McCain said. “[The administration] wouldn’t have had the opportunity to handle it that way if we had not shut down the government on a fool’s errand that we were not going to accomplish. The whole premise of shutting down the government was the repeal of Obamacare. I fought against Obamacare harder than any of the people who wanted to shut down the government.”

This article appears in Oct 10-16, 2013.

Getting hassled by The Man Mild-mannered reporter

2 replies on “McCain: GOP’s Gov’t Shutdown Over Obamacare Was a “Fool’s Errand””

  1. Right-minded folks are to red-faced and shamed of themselves to respond to such truth, and Left-minded folks are like well John said it best.

  2. Talk is cheap, Senator McCain. How did you vote on the Senate bill to extend the debt ceiling today?

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