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Another One Bites The Dust

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Another lobbyist leaves the McCain camp:

Former Rep. Thomas G. Loeffler, a Texan who is among the McCain campaign’s most important advisers and fundraisers, has resigned as a national co-chair over lobbying entanglements, a Republican source told Politico on Sunday.

It’s at least the fifth lobbying-related departure from the campaign in a week.

The McCain campaign, already facing the prospect of being badly outgunned in the general election, now also must cope with the disruption of the lobbying shakeout.

The McCain campaign’s stringent approach to the issue is provoking a bit of grumbling from some of its Washington allies, who point out that a lobbyist’s function is enshrined in the Constitution.

“No one in real America cares,” said one key Republican. “But McCain cares.”

I love the spin by a “key Republican” there. Most people don’t care, but McMaverick does! That is why he is getting rid of the lobbyists one by one!

Did he just not notice what they all did for a living? I am not the smartest man, but I vaguely remember the right-wing FREAKING OUT over a piece in the NY Times in which it was asserted that McCain may be so convinced of his ethics that he is blind to all the crap going on around him (and truth be told, the article was sleazy for attempting to inject sex into the storyline). I didn’t just imagine all that uproar, did I?

Let’s just put it this way- for a guy who prides himself on straight talk and not being swayed by the evils of money or lobbyists, John McCain sure seems to have a whole bunch of lobbyist friends and a lot of lobbyists working for him.

*** Update ***

Here is a film full of McMavericky McStraght Talk:

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  1. 1.

    4tehlulz

    “No one in real America cares,” said one key Republican. “But McCain cares.”

    so….it’s all about McCain then?

  3. 3.

    Dan

    Well…McCain sure acts like one thing, but calls himself something else. Tossing another friend under the tracks to try and save his campaign from the label of hypocrisy fits really well into today’s political climate. I’d be gleeful about this if only the Democrats could field a candidate with substance who wasn’t just as dirty. (oh, how I miss the days of Charlie Wilson…)
    One of the events you can take from this, is that the minor scandal over the Airbus tanker deal begins to take real substance as an issue-McCain lobbied on their behalf in 2007, and lo-and-behold, the rules were changed, and guess what? Airbus/”Northrug Grumman” (In quotes because we know who the senior partner in that is) gets the contract, and their lobbyist friends start showing up in mister “Clean UP Washington”‘s campaign staff.

    I used to believe McCain was honourable, I suspect there’s still a tiny piece of that honour left, but…

  4. 4.

    Ninerdave

    You know you figure after the first 10 or so lobbyists, he’d start going through resumes and figure out who else is a lobbyist.

  5. 5.

    El Doh

    You know you figure after the first 10 or so lobbyists, he’d start going through resumes and figure out who else is a lobbyist.

    I thought he already did that — he picked the ones who were lobbyists, right?

  6. 6.

    jake

    OT: pHuckabee is pitching serious woo McCane’s direction.

    “There’s no one I would rather be on a ticket with than John McCain,” said Huckabee, who was a stronger than expected challenger against McCain for the Republican presidential nomination. “All during the campaign when I was his rival, not a running mate, there was no one who was more complimentary of him publicly and privately. … I still wanted to win, but if I couldn’t, John McCain was always the guy I would have supported and have now supported.

    The former governor then broke into an a capella solo:

    “No matter what you do,
    I only wanna be with you!”

  7. 7.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    Noooo! Noooo! Take down that video! McCain is our knight in shining armor who will save us from the evil Obama in November! McCain is the one who will deserve our vote as a good and decent and pro-woman candidate that is honest and upright unlike Hitler Junior! Make it stop!!!

  8. 8.

    SamFromUtah

    The Bush admin knows how to deal with these surprising outbreaks of rampant corruption – make everybody sit through a PowerPoint presentation about ethics.

  9. 9.

    demimondian

    make everybody sit through a PowerPoint presentation about ethics

    …which carefully explain the limits to which the enforcers must comply. After that, clearly, nobody should actually be guilty of any corrupt act.

  10. 10.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    jake Says:

    OT: pHuckabee is pitching serious woo McCane’s direction.

    “There’s no one I would rather be on a ticket with than John McCain,” said Huckabee, who was a stronger than expected challenger against McCain for the Republican presidential nomination. “All during the campaign when I was his rival, not a running mate, there was no one who was more complimentary of him publicly and privately. … I still wanted to win, but if I couldn’t, John McCain was always the guy I would have supported and have now supported.

    The former governor then broke into an a capella solo:

    “No matter what you do,
    I only wanna be with you!”

    In the Huckster’s defence, he and McCain were pretty conspicuously polite to each other both in debates and on the stump, compared with other rivals in this contest.

    I thought it was damn funny that the two GOP candidates who were declared apostate by the AM talk radio blowhards were McCain and Huckabee, and guess who finished #1 and #2? Must be a funny year when Rush Limbaugh has more influence over the Democratic primaries than he does over the GOP contest.

  11. 11.

    nightjar

    The Nov. 6 article “McCain Breaks Own Pork Rule” inaccurately stated that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) violated his own rules against so-called “pork barrel” spending. The Senate Parliamentarian’s office maintains that the provision was properly authorized in the Senate-passed version of the fiscal 2004 Defense authorization bill and did not need to be signed by the president to be considered “authorized,” as the article suggested. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), chairwoman of the Appropriations subcommittee on military construction, told Roll Call that McCain never specifically asked her to put the $14.3 million project for Arizona’s Luke Air Force Base into the fiscal 2004 military construction bill.

    NO earmarks for the porkbuster and No Maverick fingerprints left when you’ve got a fellow wingnut appropriators to do the dirty work.

    The Straight Talk Express. Fueled by Horseshit.

  13. 13.

    Jon H

    Ya know, maybe he isn’t swayed by lobbyists.

    If you’re already bent in the direction they want to go, there’s no need for swaying, is there?

  14. 14.

    Ninerdave

    The Bush admin knows how to deal with these surprising outbreaks of rampant corruption – make everybody sit through a PowerPoint presentation about ethics.

    I thought that was Hillary’s strategy for winning the nomination.

  15. 15.

    Rome Again

    I love the spin by a “key Republican” there. Most people don’t care, but McMaverick does! That is why he is getting rid of the lobbyists one by one!

    This can only be good for the Republicans.

  16. 16.

    w vincentz

    I’m trying to figure out how to photoshop that image of McSame. If a white wig is put atop that bald head, it looks a lot like the guy on the one dollar bill, except Johnny comes up about $.98 short.

  17. 17.

    ThymeZone

    I don’t know about you guys, but my take … after 25 years of rather up close McCain watching out here in Arizona .. is that this lying piece of crap has truly gone over the edge and is now in full on insane territory.

    Is it just me? Even for Mister Magoo, this recent delusional wishful thinking make-up-anything bullshit is becoming scary.

    Truly, the best thing we have going against McCain this year, aside from the rockstar candidate we are going to put up …. is McCain himself. He is by far his own worst enemy.

  18. 18.

    Rome Again

    Truly, the best thing we have going against McCain this year, aside from the rockstar candidate we are going to put up …. is McCain himself. He is by far his own worst enemy.

    Yes, but Hilbots just love him, much more than that black feller.

  19. 19.

    Rick Taylor

    Is it just me? Even for Mister Magoo, this recent delusional wishful thinking make-up-anything bullshit is becoming scary.

    I’ve felt that way for a while; ever since he talked about how he could walk in the Baghdad market without any body armor. I think he’s getting old.

  20. 20.

    ThymeZone

    Yes, but Hilbots just love him

    So you would think now. But they won’t vote for him in November. Nobody who has the slightest regard for Democratic Party values in the last fifty years is going to vote for Mister Magoo.

    Not even the Hillacrazies. IMO.

  21. 21.

    ThymeZone

    I’ve felt that way for a while; ever since he talked about how he could walk in the Baghdad market without any body armor.

    I know.

    Now, nobody from the Obama campaign is calling me and asking for my advice (strangely) …. but …..

    I still thing our best campaign ads this fall will just be vignettes of McCain’s own elocutions. Res ipsa loquitur has never looked better to me.

  23. 23.

    Rome Again

    Not even the Hillacrazies. IMO.

    That’s why Jeralyn on TL had to post this:

    I aqree with you Spike (5.00 / 5) (#122)
    by Jeralyn on Sun May 18, 2008 at 12:22:01 AM EST

    TalkLeft does not support voting for McCain—both Big Tent Demorat and I have said many many times we will vote for the Democratic nominee.

    Hillary supporters need to remember that a vote for McCain is the last thing she’d want. She’s a Democrat and the Democratic candidate is preferable to the Republican one—from cabinet appointments to policy to federal judges.

    right?

  27. 27.

    mikefromtexas

    I’ve been in the banking business since 1984, lost a couple of pretty good jobs thanks to St. Ronnie’s fuckup. I can assure you, the Keating scandal was swept under the rug. They let just enough info out for everyone to think it had been dealt with properly. BS. Ever since then, I’ve felt McSame is the poster boy for political corruption, on a par with those two chumps from Alaska. OTOH, have you seen any of the pics from Obama’s speech in Portland today? Estimates of up to 75,000 folks showed up. I’m sure there no working class whites in that crowd.

  28. 28.

    carl

    mikefromtexas you must have been shity at what you did if you lost jobs in the eighties. what a fuck up

  29. 29.

    Tom in Texas

    Nice! This one’s only a week old. You are inching towards the world the rest of us live in, Carl. Join us there when you are ready.

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