It turns out even our top lawmakers can be distracted from their work by an addictive app.   Senator John McCain was caught red handed playing a poker app during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing about the possibility of sending U.S. troops to Syria.

Some may talk about how this was immature or inappropriate of senator McCain.

Reported by Charles C. Johnson of The Daily Caller, “Obama and McCain are masters of that politicians’ art form — ‘Do as I say, not as I do,’” he added, “That’s a nice way of saying they are liars, cheats, frauds and hypocrites.”

Despite the criticism McCain received, Neil Cavuto of Fox News had this to say. “Say what you will of Senator McCain and his views on this war, I do think he knows a thing or two about war, and is qualified more than most to talk about the dangers of war. In fact, I think he’s forgotten more about war than all his two-bit critics combined will l ever know about war.”

The meeting was more than three hours long, and I imagine those senate meetings could get boring, especially when you’re just sitting there listening to other people talk politics.

The Republican senator, who met with the White House Monday to discuss the conflict, admitted he was playing the poker game during the hearing after the Washington Post posted a photo of him doing so.

McCain did not think it was a very big deal, as he tweeted, “”Scandal! Caught playing iPhone game at 3+ hour Senate hearing- worst of all I lost!”

The sarcasm in that tweet makes it obvious that McCain does not care at all that he was caught.

McCain, in his defense, had this to say, “Well, as much as I like to always listen in rapt attention constantly with remarks of my colleagues over a three-and-a-half hour period, occasionally I get a LITTLE bored–but the worst thing about it is, I lost thousands of dollars in this game.”

You may think that it is a big deal that the senator was on his phone during a meeting of such importance, but it honestly isn’t that serious.

McCain already had his opinion on the situation in Syria, he supports troop intervention but does not think that Obama’s plan will work, saying it, “might be doomed in the long run.”

His opinion wasn’t going to change, so there was no reason for him to pay attention 100% of the time.

Would you like to sit in a room listening to politicians argue for more than three hours without having anything to do? I know I wouldn’t.