McCain's stubbornness on Iraq, despite Bush's backpedaling and the expressed will of the Iraqi prime minister, suggests how he would approach the crumbling economy. He'll do nothing.
Jeffrey Jena | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
"I actually don't give a big horse's backside who you pick as a running mate. He or she will have little or no effect on my life over the next 20 or 30 years, but justices will be around for a long time."
AP | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A top economic surrogate for Republican presidential candidate John McCain doesn't think people are paying much attention to what p...
Michael Likosky | Posted 07.11.2008 | Business
Our economic recovery depends upon not only rehabilitating our national infrastructure, but also on large scale investment in state-of-the-art new projects.
Gerald McEntee | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
Americans aren't whining. They are voicing their justified frustration with policies that put profits over people. They have had it with politicians who stand in the way of change.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
The McCain campaign is working hard to distance itself from statements made by economic adviser Phil Gramm describing the current economic downturn as...
The Huffington Post | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
***SCROLL DOWN FOR RESPONSES FROM THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN, THE DNC, AND OBAMA CAMPAIGN*** In an interview with the Washington Times, McCain's top economi...
The Huffington Post | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
On Monday, John McCain's campaign released a statement signed by 300 economists who "enthusiastically support" his "Jobs for America" economic plan. T...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
John McCain and his shadow army of "Nobel laureate economists" may be of the belief that the GOP nominee's economic plans - which the nominee himself ...
OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 07.08.2008 | Home
WHO: Director of Economic Policy Dr. Jason Furman and Rep. John Spratt (D-SC) WHAT: Press conference call to discuss John McCain's budget proposal...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
John McCain appeared on today's CNN American Morning, ostensibly to talk economic policy with John Roberts. Over the course of the discussion, howeve...
NY Times | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
The package of spending and tax cuts proposed by Senator John McCain is unlikely to achieve his goal of balancing the federal budget by 2013, economis...
Max Bergmann | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
Now McCain is implying that he will bring a large portion of our troops home quickly enough to pay down the deficit? Let's get this straight.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
For weeks, John McCain has been fighting off the notion that his presidency would be a third Bush term, even using a prime time address -- on the nigh...
Hilary Rosen | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
Rick Davis, former McCain campaign manager, told me that with the conventions taking place so late in the summer, voters' thinking about the election would be greatly affected by their summer experience.
Craig Crawford | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
Whose bright idea was it to put the expected GOP nominee in Mexico of all places -- on the day that the next round of jobless numbers were coming out?
OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 06.27.2008 | Home
WHO: Congressman Tim Ryan and UAW Local 1112 President James Graham WHAT: Press conference call to discuss McCain's plan to continue President Bush'...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
The substance of any proposed economic reforms is less important, frankly, than McCain demonstrating that he can, in fact, understand the economy and discuss it in some depth.
Danny Schechter | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business
The US does not have energy independence or, for that matter, financial independence. Why? Partly because we live as if we are an island empire in an interdependent world.
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.
Washington Post | Perry Bacon Jr. | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
A detailed analysis of the candidates' tax plans confirms one of Barack Obama's top arguments against John McCain: the Arizona senator's proposals wou...
Think Progress | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
Writing in Avenue, "a glossy, lifestyle magazine that chronicles the lives of Manhattan's affluent and socially powerful," CNBC's Maria Bartiromo warn...
Bloomberg | Matthew Benjamin | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics
George W. Bush's policies on the economy, other than on taxes, have been a failure, suggested John McCain's top economic policy adviser. Douglas Holt...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
Ah, the power of Youtube. Robert Greenwald has put together another in his series: "The Real McCain" that demonstrates the Republican's tendency to p...
Jared Bernstein | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics
Recent history has shown that John McCain's policy agenda is antithetical to his goals. Regarding the variables that matter most to working families, the neocon experiment was a particularly dramatic failure.
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
John McCain's famously cozy relationship with the press is getting a bit testy. Taking questions in...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
Major news organizations are drawing...
"Extra" has learned that Heather Mills' publicist, Michele Elyzabeth, has...
Will the mainstream media cover the John Edwards love child scandal put out there by the...
I have a wait problem. I hate to wait. When...
WASHINGTON — Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000...
Ashcroft Claims Waterboarding...
Michael B. Ellis | Posted 07.25.2008 | Home