Finally! Boxer, Durbin on McCain: Temper, temper

By GottaLaff

Back to what really matters:

John McCain’s Democratic colleagues in the Senate are zeroing in on his oft-discussed temper, questioning whether that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is too volatile to be commander in chief.

I think I'm hallucinating. Say that again?

In separate interviews with Politico Tuesday, both Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said they have seen McCain “explode.”

“He has a huge anger problem,” Boxer said. “And he never hid that….I have seen it happen on the Senate floor many, many times…He has exploded at me a couple times.”

Mmmm, yes!!! More, more... more...

Boxer said McCain has always apologized after the dust-ups. Nonethless, she insinuated that McCain’s temperament makes him unfit for the White House.

“It’s all well and good to apologize,” Boxer added, “but if you are in charge of that black box, I worry about that.”

Two points: One, she's spot on. Two, this is what abusers do. They abuse, they apologize, they charm... and then they abuse again.

Durbin noted McCain’s temper is “well documented,” saying that he had been on the receiving end of it for what he considered “minor things.”

“I was in a confrontation with him… and he was quick to explode,” said Durbin. “It simmered for a long time.”

He apparently suffers from PTSD, and at the very least, from a severe pyschological disorder called, what is it again? Oh yes. Completely Unchecked Nonrestrictive Temper, or C.U... never mind.

Boxer pointed out that many of McCain’s GOP colleagues have also spoken out about his volatility, highlighting an incident told to the Biloxi Sun Herald by Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.).

Cochran told the newspaper that he watched McCain get involved in a physical confrontation with a Nicaraguan government official during a 1987 trip there. According to Cochran, McCain grabbed the official by the shirt collar and “snatched him up like he was throwing him up out of the chair.”

Gold.