McCain Returns, Gives Speech Ripping Talk Radio, Senate Leadership

On Tuesday afternoon, ailing Senator John McCain (R-AZ), who returned to the Senate to vote on the latest defense authorization bill and to vote on the motion to proceed with some form of Obamacare alteration, launched into a barnburner speech on the nature of politics in the Senate. He began by praising the typical behavior of the Senate:

Our responsibilities are important, vitally important, to the continued success of our Republic. And our arcane rules and customs are deliberately intended to require broad cooperation to function well at all. The most revered members of this institution accepted the necessity of compromise in order to make incremental progress on solving America’s problems and to defend her from her adversaries.