McCain is such a straight and honest guy, really: Sen. John McCain championed legislation that will let an Arizona rancher trade remote grassland and ponderosa pine forest here for acres of valuable federally owned property that is ready for development, a land swap that now stands to directly benefit one of his top presidential campaign […]
Just another example of how McCain says one thing and does another: Given Senator John McCain’s signature stance on campaign finance reform, it was not surprising that he backed legislation last year requiring presidential candidates to pay the actual cost of flying on corporate jets. The law, which requires campaigns to pay charter rates when […]
Really – this isn’t just a coincidence: Top current advisers to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign last year lobbied for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, taking sides in a bidding fight that McCain has tried to referee for more than five years. Two of the […]
If anyone is protected by the media, it certainly is John McCain. When the New York Times published their article a couple of weeks ago, the media circled the wagons around their hero. Instead they focused on dismissing the non-story in the article, McCain having an affair, which wasn’t actually implied. There was still a […]
E.J. Dionne has an excellent piece over at The New Republic. He points out that the New York Times was a little careless in possibly trying to paint a picture that McCain and Iseman had some sort of sexual relationship, but that it still does point out his deep involvement with lobbyists. McCain’s own denials […]
A nice little clip from Robert Greenwald showing McCain’s “friends” AKA lobbyists. So much has come out about McCain lately, besides the Vicki Iseman story, and the media keeps circling the wagons around him. It just proves that they learned nothing from the whole lead up to Iraq fiasco. I guess when we are knee […]
Or as the front page of today’s Washington Post puts it: Anti-Lobbyist Candidate Is Advised by Lobbyists Yup – McCain gets another day of great news. But that isn’t all. Also appearing on the front page of today’s WaPo: FEC Warns McCain on Campaign Spending Oh the straight talk express has really derailed now. More […]
Good for him When it comes to protecting the rule of law, words are not enough. We need action. It’s wrong for your government to spy on you. That’s why I’m asking you to join me today in calling on Senate Democrats to filibuster revisions to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that would give […]
Here is the big story of the day, a heated exchange between Romney and a reporter about lobbyists being on Mitt’s campaign. Mitt’s entire argument is that these people are not paid and are just “advisers”. Now let’s look at the definition of a lobbyist: A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members […]
The Republicans try to paint corruption as a bi-partisan problem, but the majority of the problems we hear about come from the right side of the aisle: Federal investigators probing Rep. Jerry Lewis (news, bio, voting record)’ ties to lobbyists are looking into a land deal that put nearly 41 pristine acres in the congressman’s […]