Mccain Oil

Two Top McCain Officials Lobbied For Oil-For-Sex Scandal Companies

Talking Points Memo | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics


Here's something that could complicate the McCain-Palin reform message a bit: It turns out that McCain's national finance co-chair, Wayne Berman, is a...

Fun facts With John McCain

Craig Newmark | Posted 09.11.2008 | Home


Craig Newmark

McCain's record doesn't look like the record of a change-maker by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, looks like he's dominated by the same lobbyists Bush has been beholden to for the last eight years.

Sam Stein

Vilsack: McCain Puts Oil First, Not Country

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics


The Obama campaign and Democratic operatives have been pushing for weeks to paint McCain as a stooge of Big Oil. On Tuesday they tried a new tactic: u...

Sam Stein

McCain Traveling To Oil Rig (Partially) Owned By... Exxon

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics


Sometimes political attacks materialize all by themselves. John McCain is set to board a helicopter today and travel 150 miles off the Louisiana cost...

Top McCain Officials Were Paid Oil Lobbyists

Talking Points Memo | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics


Okay, here's some more on the ties between the McCain campaign and the Hess Corporation, the company whose senior executives all dumped $28,500 apiec...

Sam Stein

MoveOn Ad: McCain, Get To Work

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics


Moveon.org, which next to the Obama campaign and the DNC has been the most active Democratic organization in the general election, launched a new web ...

Senator McCain, Troops and Security Are No Joke

Jon Soltz | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics


Jon Soltz

Maybe John McCain wants to mock the idea of simple ways we can use less oil and protect America and our troops, while blocking efforts to get off Middle East oil, but we take it dead seriously.

When Big Oil Says Jump Off The Campaign Trail, You Jump

Bill Scher | Posted 08.05.2008 | Green


Bill Scher

Don't let anyone say McCain doesn't go the extra mile for those supporting his campaign.

It's Not Oil Supply -- It's the High Fear Hype!

Steve Clemons | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics


Steve Clemons

This debate over oil and energy policy disgusts me because both Obama and McCain are trying to force short term, knee jerk responses to a major policy challenge for the nation.

Rachel Weiner

McCain: I'll Come Back To Senate For Oil

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics


On Monday, John McCain lambasted Congress for adjourning without passing an energy bill, saying he'd be willing to "come off the campaign trail" and r...

Reading The Pictures: A Crude Salute

Michael Shaw | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media


Michael Shaw

2008-07-30-mccain_cindy_oilderrick.jpg Conservatives obviously don't get the irony of having their presidential nominee and wife billboarding militarism while standing next to an oil derrick.

Sam Stein

McCain Fumbles His "This Week" Appearance

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics


Coming off of a week in which he made several notable gaffes and was overshadowed by his rival's trip overseas, Sen. John McCain was undoubtedly hopin...

Sam Stein

McCain Offshore Drilling Battle Reminiscent Of Iraq Surge, Aide Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics


An aide to John McCain synthesized the Senator's two favorite topics into one political thesis today: his support for off-shore drilling and his polic...

Sam Stein

Good News For McCain: Support For Offshore Drilling Spikes

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics


John McCain and the Bush administration has been arguing for the past week that the United States should lift a federal moratorium on off-shore drilli...

Schwarzenegger: McCain "Blowing Smoke" On Offshore Drilling

Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics


In a speech on climate change in Florida, the California governor diverged from his prepared remarks to blast supporters of offshore drilling. Americ...

Why McCain's "Drill Here, Drill Now" Proposal Fails the Supply/Demand Reality Check

David Fiderer | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business


David Fiderer

McCain's rhetoric on global oil, and the mainstream media narrative, seems stuck in the mid-1980s, when the U.S. produced as much oil as Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia combined.

McCain Campaign Press Call 6.23.08 AUDIO: Senator Graham (R-SC) on McCain's Energy Policy

OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 06.23.2008 | Home


OffTheBus Listening Post

WHO: Senator Lindsey Graham, (R-SC) and Doug Holtz-Eakin, senior policy adviser, John McCain 2008 WHAT: Press conference call discussing Senator Oba...

Sam Stein

McCain's Offshore Drilling Position A Flip From Three Weeks Ago

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics


It is hardly a secret that when it comes to offshore drilling, Sen. John McCain was against the idea before he was for it. On Monday, the Arizona Repu...

What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

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.

John McCain and Exxon Valdez

David Roberts | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics


David Roberts

Four months after the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history, McCain voted against requiring double hulled tankers.