Meltdown

MANIFESTO

OK. We can now officially cross John McCain off the list of viable presidential candidates.

Presidential hopeful John McCain - who has been dogged for years by questions about his volcanic temper - erupted in an angry, profanity-laced tirade at a fellow Republican senator, sources told The Post yesterday.

In a heated dispute over immigration-law overhaul, McCain screamed, "F- - - you!" at Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who had been raising concerns about the legislation.

"This is chickens- - - stuff," McCain snapped at Cornyn, according to several people in the room off the Senate floor Thursday. "You've always been against this bill, and you're just trying to derail it."

He clearly has no control over his faculties and shows all the symptoms of Tourette's Syndrome—or at least the social graces of a twelve-year-old. He also doesn't have much imagination in his use of vocabulary.

In the final analysis, he's just a grumpy old man who should have retired years ago.