McCain's campaign is infested with lobbyists from top to bottom, all of whom have used their connection to McCain to form a nexus of client relationships at McCain's intersection of power and influence inside the Beltway.
The Media Consortium | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home
Allegedly color-blind in hiring, protected from witches and stumped in interviews, Palin this week was on the verge of being a two-time game-changer (good change, bad change) when McCain decided that game wasn't working for him anymore.
Gerald McEntee | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics
American families have already seen what unregulated corporate gurus can do, yet McCain wants the insurance industry to enjoy the same kind of unregulated excess that he gave the investment bankers.
Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 10.03.2008 | Green
Maybe not as exciting as the Democratic Convention, but even more critical for our survival, is a piece of news that went totally unnoticed this week. CO2 levels continue to rise, with no end in sight.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics
This morning, I had the opportunity to join one of my favorite writers and thinkers, Megan Carpentier, for Jezebel.com's daily feature, Crappy Hour, t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
When it comes to tracking the lobbyists and companies who either work for or have contributed to John McCain's presidential campaign, now you can play...
New York Times | Robert Pear And Ron Nixon | Posted 08.03.2008 | Politics
Registered lobbyists have donated large amounts of money to Senator John McCain's presidential campaign, even as he denounces their profession. But D...
Zephyr Teachout | Posted 08.01.2008 | Home
While Obama burnishes his diplomatic credentials abroad, it's becoming clear that people like Bush bundler Stephen Payne are conducting all but unregulated diplomacy and shaping foreign policy.
Craig Newmark | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
Hey, this has been covered a little in the press, but I just found that the investigator never got credit, so here we go:On April 15, Anupanama Naraya...
Ira Forman | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
McCain and the bully boys on the right employ a strategy to paint Obama as weak on Iran and an enemy of the Jewish community. They use "guilt by association" to scare Jewish voters.
Craig Newmark | Posted 07.04.2008 | Home
McCain is not "confused"-- not in the way the media means, anyway. It's just hard to remember scripted lines and the arguments they make when they go against your better judgment.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
How much does John McCain know about his campaign manager's lobbying history and potential current business interests inside Ukraine -- and when did h...
Janet Ritz | Posted 06.27.2008 | Green
While Obama was in Illinois shoveling sand in bags to hold back the Bush-neglected infrastructure that was crumbling around him McCain was on his way to accept whoops and cheers from oil industry insiders.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business
By flip flopping on the constitutionality of the NSA's surveillance program, and giving key telecom lobbyists prominent play in his campaign, McCain shows that he, too, can be bought.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
Senator John McCain has a lobbyist problem. This past week, as several aides resigned because of their work representing unsavory governments, his cam...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, John McCain admitted to me that he hadn't voted for George Bush.
Mona Gable | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
Hillary's desperation for blue-collar votes and her tiresome attacks on Obama are leading her down some awfully treacherous trails.
Time | MICHAEL SCHERER | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
The U.S. senate is a lousy launching pad for sainthood, a place of compromise and backslaps, of hidden doors that lead to gilded rooms where the real ...
USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
Republican presidential candidate John McCain has condemned the influence of "special interest lobbyists," yet dozens of lobbyists have political and ...
Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
USA Today has a new article detailing John McCain's ties to telecommunications lobbyists. The article points out one of John McCain's major inconsiste...
Politico | Martin Kady II and Patrick O'Connor | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has engaged a leading GOP lobbyist to coordinate his message and travel schedule with c...
The Real McCain | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Demand John McCain stop his lobbyist fundraising You said "I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to." Yet you have 59 lobbyist...
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A former Paxson Communications president said Saturday he never met with John McCain about the Arizona senator writing letters to t...
New York Times | Clark Hoyt | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
BILL KELLER, the executive editor of The Times, said the article about John McCain that appeared in Thursday's paper was about a man nearly felled by ...
AP | SETH SUTEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — A New York Times story examining John McCain's relationship with a female lobbyist eight years ago has thrust the newspaper itself in...
Christy Hardin Smith | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics