McCain, Clinton, Obama and the gas tax

John McCain proposed a temporary repeal of the 18 cent per gallon federal gas tax over the summer, when gasoline demand peaks.  The idea is that it would give consumers some relief from high gas prices at a time when prices tend to peak.  Hillary Clinton jumped on board, but realising that taxes on gasoline [...]

John McCain: passed that threshold?

John McCain appears not to understand the most basic issues in the Middle East. Writing in the Washington Posts campaign blog, The Trail, Cameron W. Barr and Michael D. Shear report:
Speaking to reporters in Amman, the Jordanian capital, McCain said he and two Senate colleagues traveling with him continue to be concerned about Iranian [...]

John McCain: Denialist

I suppose it takes a good measure of denialism to be able to say that the war’s not going horribly, but this still shocked me
McCain said, per ABC News’ Bret Hovell, that “It’s indisputable that (autism) is on the rise amongst children, the question is what’s causing it. And we go back and forth and [...]

Unfolding scandal

Drip, drip, drip…

Emptywheel at FireDogLake:McCain’s Favors for Iseman Involved Helping Far Right-Wing Families to Sustain their Shell Companies
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo: Not Looking So Good, Straight Talk…Inc., McCain to FEC: Blow it out your #$%
Greg Sargent, TPM Election Central:Top McCain Adviser Says He Does Much Of His Lobbying From Aboard Straight Talk Express!
Paul [...]

Political must-reads

Josh Marshall talks about McCain’s repeated problems with the truth, and some of the issues he may have with getting out of public financing for the Republican primary campaign.  (Paul Kiel has a more detailed analysis).
Barbara O’Brien looks at several articles that analyse the challenges of being a woman/being black in a US presidential campaign, [...]

McScandal

The more I look at this, the more apparent it is that the talking heads of cable news totally missed the point on the New York Times article on John McCain. Sure, any whiff of a sex scandal is like blood in the water, but I think a far bigger problem is that they [...]

McCain scandal

I have a hard time figuring out what to make of the McCain scandal. If it’s about sex, then it’s really not that big a deal. In fact it’s very like the Clinton scandal - there was a sex scandal during his primary campaign, and for those who dug deeper, there were more [...]

McCain sex scandal? Or lobbyist scandal?

The New York Times is reporting tonight that:
A female lobbyist had been turning up with [John McCain] at fund-raisers, in his offices and aboard a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, [...]