McCain vs. Paul: The Senate’s Generational Grudge Match
By ERIC PIANIN, The Fiscal Times
May 21, 2013
Former Republican presidential nominee John McCain and Republican presidential wannabe Rand Paul renewed their simmering grudge fest during a high-profile Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday morning into Apple’s overseas tactics for avoiding U.S. taxes on tens of billions of dollars of revenue.
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McCain showed restraint after Paul’s first rant against Levin and the committee, but after the freshman Tea Party Republican offered a second tongue-lashing to the committee later on, McCain had heard enough. Turning to Levin, McCain said that the two of them had worked together for more than a quarter of a century in the Senate and that “I know of no member of the United States Senate who ever accused you of bullying or harassing a witness . . . And frankly it’s offensive to hear you accused of that behavior which has never characterized the conduct of this committee.”
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., seconded McCain’s remarks, describing them as “a classy example of bipartisanship.” A seemingly perturbed Paul departed the hearing room shortly thereafter, without staying around for the testimony of Apple chief executive Timothy D. Cook and other xecutives.
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