It sort of spot lights not just sorry shameful thing that is president but the whole party.

Whomever it is, watch for it to happen fast -- as I worried when Mitch McConnell set the SCOTUS hearings on Kavanagh for a couple of weeks from now.  I figured that McConnell must have known that McCain's end was near (just because the family announced only a few days ago that the cancer treatment would end does not mean that's when it was discontinued, which could have been a while ago), and that an appointee would come to DC in time to give the GOP its two-vote margin again.

The late Senator Russell (D. GA) was a racial segregationist, and Dixiecrat, and was a co-author of the Southern Manifesto with Strom Thurmond.

 Originally a mentor of Lyndon Johnson, there was a falling out over civil rights legislation. Russell was a long-term chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Despite all these months to think and talk about his life, though, there are basically only two McCain obituaries: Fawning Apotheosis, and Contrarian Reaction to Fawning Apotheosis. But we can use these two types of memorial to coordinate an insightful understanding of McCain's life and what his death means to America. Our reactions to these McCain obits (beyond the reactions to his death) also say a lot about what the country he loved so much looked like the day he left it. Bottom line: McCain sucked--a lot--but right now America sucks a whole lot more. Until his "friends" step up and rid our leadership of Trumpism, their ostentatious, overwrought, self-satisfied obits about the selfless patriotism of Senator John McCain should make us all ill.

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And the cause he championed, compulsive intervention in foreign quarrels to face down dictators and bring democrats to power, appears to be a cause whose time has passed.

Active Measures, a new documentary from director Jack Bryan, would be timely even without the presence of John McCain. And yet the senator, who died of brain cancer less than a week before this film's August 31st release, adds an additional dose of relevance and urgency to its central thesis: that President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are far more intertwined than you know.

"The fact that there was an attack on the fundamental--the absolute fundamental--a free and fair election, should alarm all of us," McCain says in the exclusive clip below. He's referring to the reports from August of 2016 that Russian hackers were targeting voter registration databases in states like Arizona.

"This really spooked officials in the White House," Michael Isikoff, the chief investigative correspondent at Yahoo News, adds. "And that's the moment, I think, that the enormity of the Russian influence campaign really started to hit home

Does that make me a bad person?