John McCain suggested the following at a recent speech in Columbus, Ohio:

“I will ask Congress,” said the presumptive Republican nominee, “to grant me the privilege of coming before both houses to take questions, and address criticism, much the same as the prime minister of Great Britain appears regularly before the House of Commons.”

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I would love to see this in Congress. I get the BBC on my cable and sometimes the British Parliament will be on debating and it can actually be quite entertaining to watch them hoot and holler and boo the opposition and the Prime Minister when they don’t agree. I think if we actually did something along those lines it might get more people interested and actually start paying more attention to what is going on. If you have ever watched C-Span you know how incredibly boring it is. Americans have to be entertained in today’s “American Idol” culture, so maybe this is the way to get more people on board with the political process.

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.”That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added.

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Oh, is that so? I’ve got news for Mr. Obama. I will drive whatever car I want. I will eat whatever I want and I will heat my house to whatever temperature I desire and I’ll be damned if some two bit, empty suit politician is going to tell me it isn’t going to happen. I don’t care what France thinks about it. It sounds to me like Barack Obama is running to be dictator of a police state, not the president of a free nation, and millions of fools are out there cheering him on.

Can it get any more absurd?