The non-partisan group Campaign Money Watch has come up with another startling figure for those who follow the presidential money chase. According to...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.04.2008 | 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...
Dick Meyer | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business
The government is putting taxpayer funds at risk to stabilize Fannie Mae -- another episode in a long-running legal scandal. There are no hookers, embezzlers and slush funds. Just laws, lobbyists and pay packages.
Alex Gibney | Posted 07.16.2008 | Entertainment
The story of Jack Abramoff is an intriguing, stranger-than-fiction tale of Washington, D.C.'s tight knit world of members of Congress and the lobbyists who vie for their favor.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 07.07.2008 | Green
If the American government really wanted its citizens to have access to cheaper oil and gas, surely it could find a way that does not involve invading another Middle Eastern country.
David Donnelly | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
McCain's policy ignores the problem with having a campaign run by corporate and foreign lobbyists: they are happy to abandon their lobbying work temporarily to get valuable chits with the potential future president.
Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
Capitol Hill lost yet another Congressman to K Street recently, as one more elected official rolled down the hill to join a lobbying firm. Through the...
Craig Newmark | Posted 06.26.2008 | 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.
Janet Ritz | Posted 06.19.2008 | 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.
David Donnelly | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
McCain, whose history with Boeing led to the Air Force scuttling an earlier award on this contract, intervened twice with the Air Force to help Airbus' bid.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
We once again have a Republican nominee who is a war hero, personable and engaging, with a long Senate career, who is so out of sync with the times that his campaign feels stillborn. It's Doleja vu all over again.
Diane Francis | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business
McCain can "pledge" to reform Wall Street business practices all he wants, but he hasn't walked the walk in the Senate in past years, nor has his party ever done so.
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 06.14.2008 | Business
Lawyers will soon have to choose: spend your career serving your country, or spend it serving your corporation. But we have to make sure that those who embrace public service can make a decent living.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
McCain's political positions are what remain utterly confusing -- it's hard to think of another veteran politician whose political philosophy is as murky as his.
Seth Grahame-Smith | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
McCain's "green speech" was one of the funniest half-hours of television since Arrested Development was canceled, and had all the energy and eloquence of Frankenstein on barbiturates.
ZP Heller | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
Don't be fooled by McCain's claims to be a Maverick fighting against lobbyists and special interests. His top staffers have been connected to brutal dictators like Gaddafi.
David Donnelly | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
Question: How many lobbyists does it take to get to the center of John McCain's campaign? Answer: Too many.
David Donnelly | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
McCain's campaign doesn't just have any old 115 lobbyists working for him. He's got some of the worst abusers of the pay-to-play and influence-peddling in Washington, DC.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.20.2008 | Business
The California Chamber of Commerce has released its annual list of what it calls "job-killer bills." Why is it that the hit-list seems to only target Democrats?
Tom Matzzie | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
John McCain has 118 lobbyists either working or raising money for him. So far, he's fired only three of them.
David Donnelly | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
With 115 lobbyists raising money for or staffing your campaign, we believe that last weekend's revelations about two staff members' work promoting the military junta in Myanmar are just the tip of the iceberg.
Giles Slade | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
Obama currently deserves our meager respect and our support for coming this far without lobbyists, without compromise, without shutting down his own inner voice.
Janet Ritz | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
Four in ten environmental scientists said the political interference they'd been experiencing is more prevalent in the last five years.
Christy Hardin Smith | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
Pretending that McCain has clean hands when his highest-ranking advisors are shoveling the muck is both illogical and dishonest. And the media knows it.
Craig Crawford | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
Every one of the Obama ads I saw or heard in Pennsylvania recently presents him personally telling what can only be charitably described as a half-truth.
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HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics