Hypocrisy alert – Schmuck Talk Express™ goes a bridge too far

Blaming the Minneapolis bridge collapse of last year on Congressional earmarks is bullshit even by John McCain standards.

Then, we get the real bullshit, hypocrisy-style:

On the same day, McCain was confronted with an earmark he did consider worthy. During a forum at Lehigh Valley Hospital, he met a woman with ovarian cancer who was treated in a clinical trial funded with $80 million in congressional earmarks.

The hospital was showing off an electronic medical records system that is virtually paper-free.

McCain insisted he was not trying to have it both ways and said that deserving projects can get money through regular channels.

“It’s the process I object to,” he said. “I’m sure that I can give you a list of projects the Mafia funds, and they would probably be good projects. But I can’t give you a justification for the Mafia. I can’t give you a justification for the corruption that's been bred which has sent members of Congress to the federal prison,” he said.

You can’t have it both ways, John.

If the Mafia kept trash off the streets of Newark, would you hold that up as good work?

Or, to pin your woeful Middle East knowledge on you, if Hamas improved water, sewer and electricity service in Gaza over what Fatah did, would you hold that up as good work?

What a lying doorknob.