Dear John: Thanks for your offer to suspend the debate on Friday to focus on the legislative work on the investment bank bailout. While the looming fiscal crisis certainly deserves our attention as senators, I think we both have 90 minutes … [Read more...]
McCain’s campaign manager was on Freddie Mac’s payroll until last month. And McCain lied about it.
NYT humiliates the McCain campaign. Again. One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month from the end of 2005 through last month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain's campaign manager, … [Read more...]
GOP 2008 Platform: “We do not support government bailouts of private institutions.”
2008 Republican Platform: We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself. We believe … [Read more...]
Conservatives abandoning McCain in droves
Today's defection: George Will. Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama. Will then makes an excellent point that I've … [Read more...]
McCain 180 degrees backwards on health care (and everything else)
Well, what a fortuitous development! If you haven't heard, John McCain has a new article in the new Contingencies magazine (It's not just for actuaries anymore!) in which he says the following:I would also allow individuals to … [Read more...]
“I’m John McCain and I approve this message.”
Watch out for the new barrage of anti-Obama ads from the Double Talk Express. (Politco reports that Al Franken had a hand in crafting these new messages.) … [Read more...]
I was just thinking…
Has anyone asked that old maverick, John McCain, recently why he voted with most of his party colleagues to summarily remove a sitting president from office? … [Read more...]
Use McCain phone bank lists to call for Obama instead?
It would take a real jerk to do something like this. Those of you who have done phone banks before know that they usually have a script for people to read to the individuals that are called, starting with "Hi, I'm a volunteer from the … [Read more...]
John McCain’s child-like approach to the economy
I've been struck recently by a theme that's emerging pretty clearly from John McCain's pronouncements on the turmoil in the markets. A couple of days ago, he railed against the "greed" and "corruption" that had poisoned Wall Street, … [Read more...]
Surprise: Palin not helping McCain among women
We keep hearing about how the Palin pick has energized and inspired women voters. But the NYT/CBS poll says that Obama actually picked up more support among women than McCain did since before the Democratic convention. According … [Read more...]
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