McCain drops Cheney bomb during immigration meeting

"#!$%&#!! you!" GOP Presidential Candidate John McCain is reported to have yelled at Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) during a meeting to discuss immigration legislation. "I know more about this than anyone else in the room," intoned McCain.

According to WaPo, Cornyn "started voicing concerns about the number of judicial appeals that illegal immigrants could receive, according to multiple sources," when McCain got into a heated discussion with him.

Things really got heated when Cornyn admonished McCain for dropping in at the last minute from the campaign trail. "I've been sitting in here for all of these negotiations and you just parachute in here on the last day. You're out of line." said Cornyn to McCain, according to the WaPo article.

That's when McCain dropped the bomb.

I haven't read enough about the immigration bill to offer up much commentary yet, but the political stakes are very high for both parties, so it has been fun watching everyone posture to get their thoughts and positions on the record.

McCain has so many things to be angry about these days, it's tough to know what's really bugging him - his lagging poll numbers, his sub-par fundraising, or the continued fallout over his Mission McComplished stroll through a Baghdad market.

I'm not going to try and hide my pleasure at McCain's meltdown.

What's even more telling than McCain's meltdown at someone who disagreed with him is this, and I can't believe it doesn't get more press (it's the last paragraph of the WaPo article):

After making a few comments, McCain left the Capitol to head to New York for presidential campaign events. Later that day, McCain missed his 43rd straight vote, this on the $2.9 trillion budget outline.

Of course, the profanity and confrontation is bigger news than McCain not doing the job that the people of Arizona sent him to Washington to do - participate in making law, and VOTING when the Senate has a vote.

Something had really ought to be done about this. Senators or House Reps. who are running for president should take a leave of absence or something - it stinks that they can criss-cross the country campaigning, leaving their constituents out in the cold on important matters like, oh, a $2.9 trillion budget, and the War in Iraq.