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Mccain Deregulation

Nonsense on Health Care from The Wall Street Journal

Gerald McEntee | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Gerald McEntee

Perhaps the writer of the editorial was away from the television when Senator Obama said health care "should be a right for every American."

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McCain: We Must Do For Health Care As We Have Done For Banking

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 11.08.2008 | Home

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Miles J. Zaremski

Weeks before the bailout, McCain wrote: "Opening up the health insurance market to more competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide products less burdened by the excesses of state-based regulation."

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The Second Debate Revealed a Fatal Flaw in McCain's Candidacy

Mitchell Bard | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Mitchell Bard

It's easy to take a position in a campaign. But the promises are empty if the candidate has a record opposing those very positions.

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Fox News Guest Who Mentions Keating 5 Told To "Pipe Down"

Raw Story | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

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The Keating Five scandal, and John McCain's role in it, has received relatively little mention in presidential campaign coverage, and at least one Fox...

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Hammering Home the Keating Five Message

David Sirota | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

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David Sirota

To try to deny that McCain's formative economic experience was intimidating banking regulators -- and that he was rebuked for doing that -- is trying to perpetrate a fraud on the American people.

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It's Time for the "Deregulators" Like McCain to Step Aside and Shut Up

Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

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Mitchell Bard

How can a guy like John Boehner, who got us into this mess in the first place, have the unmitigated nerve to try and dictate the terms of how to fix things?

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McCaskill: Republicans Like "Transformer Toys" on Financial Crisis

Bob Geiger | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

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Bob Geiger

McCaskill jumped on how GOP opportunists like McCain suddenly think government has a role in protecting American taxpayers and now advocate a law-and-order approach with their Wall-Street benefactors.

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Biden: McCain Helped Cripple Labor Movement

AP | BOB LEWIS | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

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CASTLEWOOD, Va. — Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Saturday that Republican John McCain has helped President Bush destroy r...

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Obama Rapid-Response Ad Skewers McCain

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 10.19.2008 | Home

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M.S. Bellows, Jr.

With the new TV ad, Obama turned a Beltway kerfuffle into high political art -- and did so by borrowing from McCain, whose media strategy is to muddle Obama's trademarks by simply appropriating them.

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Earth to McCain: It's a Crisis

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

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Robert Scheer

Gag me with a spoon, as Valley girls used to say. Did you see that McCain-Palin ad promising "tougher rules on Wall Street to protect your life savings, no special interest giveaways"? How dumb do they think we are?

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