McCain Gets Back to Shooting His Own

Sometimes I think John McCain's a complete idiot:

In a surprising rebuke to the warriors who fought for him through tough times...

(NOTE: Let's stop right there. There's absolutely nothing surprising about McCain rebuking the people that fought for him. He did it all through the campaign.

Back to the article...)

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday sided with President-elect Barack Obama and scolded the Republican National Committee for fanning the Illinois corruption scandal.

On ABC’s “This Week,” host George Stephanopoulos asked: “The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Mike Duncan, has been highly critical of the way President- elect Obama has dealt with this.

"He's had a statement every single day, saying that the Obama team should reveal all contacts they've had with Governor [Rod] Blagojevich. He says that Obama's promise of transparency to the American people is now being tested. Do you agree with that?”

McCain replied: “I think that the Obama campaign should and will give all information necessary. You know, in all due respect to the Republican National Committee and anybody — right now, I think we should try to be working constructively together, not only on an issue such as this, but on the economy stimulus package, reforms that are necessary. And so, I don't know all the details of the relationship between President-elect Obama's campaign or his people and the governor of Illinois, but I have some confidence that all the information will come out. It always does, it seems to me.”

Like it or not, Obama is connected to Blago and a whole bunch of sleazy politicos in Chicago and there's no reason to give him a pass just because he's the president-elect. Unfortunately, in the world of McCain and the Dems, "working together" means Republicans doing what Democrats want them to do. I'm not in favor of that kind of working together, and I'm not in favor of whitewashing Obama's past connections just because he won the election.