Via Peter Hum and Patrick J. — John McCain has taken to the Senate floor to mock federal funding for jazz: “Next time you’re in New York, go to the Lincoln Center. You’ll see that we’re spending $800,000 of your money for jazz at the Lincoln Center. Jazz lovers rejoice.”
As Patrick notes, the federal sums going to jazz institutions represent a barely measurable cost per taxpayer. As for the cost of inflicting Sarah Palin on us all, I’ll let Andrew Sullivan handle that:
The only reason we even know about Sarah Palin is John McCain.
He picked her so carelessly, and his thought process was so cynical, that he should stand in the dock of public opinion before Palin does. Her vanity led her to say yes to his crazy offer. But he gave her that chance. And in the end, she is his responsibility.
… And what’s truly telling about Washington is that a man like McCain, who perpetrated this nonsense and even now refuses to take an ounce of responsibility for it, is nonetheless invited on countless talk shows and treated like the hero he always was. And no one demands he account for this train-wreck outside his tested cant about Palin “exciting the base.”
If he had any sense of responsibility, he would resign. And if the Washington media had any sense of responsibility, it would never invite him on TV again without demanding he take responsibility for what he nearly did to the national security of this country. No one who put this person near the nuclear button should have a future in public life.
For this and so many other reasons, Senator McCain, you’re a disgrace.
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Compared to the amount of money Senator McCain & his colleagues have spent on bombs and bullets during his time in Congress, what Jazz at Lincoln Center and other arts institutions/groups get is a mere pittance.