John McCain & Lindsey Graham: The Mean Girls of the U.S. Senate

Nice piece. They are truly the mean girls of the Senate. McCain has also found someone and just disagreed with them. It is his own version of triangulation.

Time will tell if this change in the social rules for being in the military is a bad idea, a good idea or didn't matter in the first place. One thing for sure: since Iran, Cuba, Syria and North Korea (among other weirdo countries) don't permit homosexuals to serve, changing our policy provides another "distinction" between them and us.

batman and robin,little girls cmon corn with your vast knowledge of strategic arm treaties cant you do any better than snide comments?your bias in this artcle(like all your other ones)is expected.once this dadt gets enacted there are going to be many lawsuits.hell barney frank is now sayingif straight soldiers dont shower with gay soldiers this is discrimination.and by the way not all military leaders want this(marine corps for one)dadt implemented.or in your view corn marines dont count.please corn try and give both sides of the issue not just yours.

This article, and the subsequent comments decry Senator McCain because they claim he is still angry about his loss to President Obama. It seems to me that those who have written such claims here are still angry that Senator McCain has any power, and that his power has been strengthened by this last election. The name calling and attempts at denigrating him seems to be on steroids in this article and the comments.
I happen to have favored the repeal of DADT, however, I understand why Senator McCain would take sides with a commander in the field over Military leaders who are now more in the political arena than being commanders of fighting men.
In addition, history would show that many of the greatest politicians from both sides of the aisle have become passionate about what they believe is right. But we now have a lame duck session, where the democrats are still in power and see their power slipping away, so they are frantically trying to pass every left leaning piece of legislation that they can lay their hands on, and attempting to get rid of every piece of legislation that leans even slightly to the right. I guess that this is nothing new on the part of a lame duck congress. The only difference is that, unlike other lame duck congresses, this one has a super majority of democrats, and can pass anything they like, good, bad, or neutral.
As for the charge of flip-flopping, when a bill is introduced by members of either party, and then the other side attaches things to the bill that are intended to pass into law things that are totally opposed to what the writer of the bill believes, then it is easy to understand why that writer would oppose the bill.
As for his military experience, before you comment on his leadership it would be best to ask those men who were POWs in the same camps as Senator McCain. They will tell you that it was his leadership under the harshest conditions possible that kept many of them alive. In addition, those who site his graduating low at the academy need to check out other military leaders who have reached the highest ranks, but graduated low from their respective academies. It is not where someone graduates in their class that determines success, it is what you do afterward.

Oh, to AOL, who published both the article and the comments: I have read your "Our New Approach To Comments" and it seems that you did not apply your own policy very well to either the article or the comments made about the two politicians who are the focus of the article. More than half of the comments are nothing more than "Personal attacks and comments that are not productive additions to the conversation." The article itself is a personal attack on these two leaders and does little to truly find out, or passes over, why these men chose to become so passionate about the issues in question.

I never could have believed that there would be a time when I could agree with anything David Corn had to say. Although this article serves David Corn in one way, he could not be more correct in that John McCain and Lindsey Graham are totally transparent, and hopefully someday, "former"!!

Wow, if this is accurate it makes me sick.

Great piece, David. But I'm not pleased you've tagged these juvenile asses as women or girls. Men who throw tantrums and act spitefully are MEN who throw tantrums and act spitefully. Tantrums and spitefulness aren't characteristics attributable solely to women. Men throw notorious tantrums and are spiteful and childish in their own gender. Let's leave women or girls out of this sorry equation. McCain and Graham are "mean boys," David. They're mean asinine juvenile pathetic disgusting B-O-Y-S!

Why isn't Senator McCain called out on his 'forgetting' that he gave what the New York Times, I believe, described as a 'tearful eulogy' at a memorial service for Mark Bingham, a gay rugby player.

Mark was one of the heroes on the plane headed for DC on 9-11. Senator McCain indicated that Mark had saved his life, and that he would never forget him for this, and would spend the rest of his life trying to live up to this man's heroism. Uh huh.

The Start has been on the table since April. That's long enough to have read it and formed an informed opinion. It is nonsense that they say they didn't have time.

HuffPost called them mean girls but we are not allowed our personal attacks? Anyway, it seems to me that these guys are poor competition for John Kyl. I really liked what the fireman on the Daily Show had to say about working on Christmas in references to Kyl's remarks.