Remember When We Thought He Had Integrity?

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. John McCain was the candidate of straight talk in 2000. He would have won the nomination if Bush hadn't smeared him with racist push polls and rumors about his sanity. Yet, in 2004, Johnny Boy let bygones be bygones, hugging Bush at a rally and standing up to smear Kerry in the same way that he was smeared by Bush.

Now, he's just full-on lying alongside the president.

McCain took a jab at AARP, the lobby for older citizens, which has been buying television and newspaper advertisements in cities Bush is visiting to oppose his idea to let younger workers divert some of their payroll taxes into private investment accounts.

"Some of our friends, who are opposing this idea, say, `Oh, you don't have to worry until 2042.' We wait until 2042 when we stop paying people Social Security?" the Arizona Republican asked rhetorically at the Social Security event here.

But Senator - no one's saying not to worry. On the contrary, we're worried enough to try to do something productive about social security, as opposed to privatizing it, which Bush himself admits does nothing to protect its solvency. As always, however, Bush drops the best lines at the rally:

"This isn't a political issue," Bush insisted, in New Mexico. "This isn't, you know, Democrats trying to get ahead of Republicans or Republicans trying to get ahead of Democrats. If that's the spirit in Washington, nothing's going to get done."

If Bush wasn't the anti-christ, he'd be so cute...

Oh! Senator McCain, while you're here... As you're the chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, I was wondering when you're going to investigate Tom DeLay's shakedown of the Texas Indian casinos. Thanks, man!