One interesting part of this week's Senate debate on the Omnibus Budget bill has been the return of Sen. John McCain.
After losing his race for the White House last year, McCain seemed a bit out of place when he returned for a lame duck session.
He was curt with reporters and generally had an "out of my way" look about him.
But the old McCain seems to be back, as maybe it's his old battle against earmarks that has him fired up again.
McCain has been on the Senate floor daily, demanding that President Obama veto the $410 billion measure, secure in the knowledge that hardly anyone else in the Congress can hold a candle to the Arizona Senator's record on pork.
McCain actually got more votes than usual for some of his efforts, indicating just how much some of his colleagues are seeking higher ground on the earmark issue.
In the end though, it's still the same John McCain who for years aggravated members of both parties with his irascible attacks on business as usual in the Congress on spending.
His resurgence also came as the Republican Party was publicly flopping around like a fish out of water this week, trying to figure out who their public face should be, Rush Limbaugh, or a GOP figure to be named later.
McCain of course was treated like an unwanted cousin by many in his own party when he ran for the White House last year.
Now you have to wonder whether some of those same people might re-think their strategy.
Would it have been better to have a flawed McCain in office or a Barack Obama?
Ahhh, yes. Details, details.
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