All Posts Tagged With: "John McCain"
Christine O’Donnell Smites Her Enemies, Part 2
Once again it’s Christine O’Donnell versus the Establishment. This time it’s John McCain who has earned her wrath.
29Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
Is The Bar This Low?
John McCain wrote an op-ed where he praised Obama’s speech and called Obama patriotic. Apparently, this is news.
17Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 13 comments | Continued
McCainology: From Hero to Zero
Watch how John McCain goes from the American hero of the Hanoi Hilton to a Rip Torn caricature who stands in his bath robe on his front lawn waving a shotgun at passerbys as he rants incoherently.
20Dec2010 | nemski | 10 comments | Continued
Fear is the Mindkiller — The Complete Failure of John McCain
This video is a compendium from Think Progress of John McCain’s performance last week during one of the hearings on ending DADT.
6Dec2010 | cassandra_m | 3 comments | Continued
He Was For It Before He Was Against It
As you might have read, President Obama has finally pushed through some recess appointments. Republicans are “upset”. John McCain said he was “very disappointed” and:
Once again the administration showed that it had little respect for the time honored constitutional roles and procedures of Congress
Let’s take the Hot Tub Time Machine back to 2005 when [...]
How Will We Tell The Difference?
Republicans are grumpy:
GOP senators emerged Monday to caution that the health debate had taken a toll on the institution, warning of little work between parties the rest of this year.
“There will be no cooperation for the rest of the year,” McCain said during an interview Monday on an Arizona radio affiliate. “They have poisoned [...]
The Ghost Whisperer
DADT repeal has been a hot topic this year, and surprisingly uncontroversial. The repeal is supported by more than 70% of Americans. John McCain has become one of the leaders in Congress against DADT-repeal. At one point during the hearing, McCain showed a letter which he claimed had been retired military officers [...]
6Mar2010 | Unstable Isotope | 7 comments | Continued
Maverick
John McCain is facing a competitive Republican primary for his U.S. Senate seat. He’s facing wingnut former Rep. J.D. Hayworth and even wingnuttier Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Some of McCain’s previous votes are getting him in trouble so he’s trying to Castle. His latest move is to pretend he didn’t really vote for [...]
24Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
Two-Faced John McCain
McCain’s duplicity is so obvious that even the mainstream media noticed the disconnect and left McCain’s spokeswoman scrambling for an explanation.
3Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 19 comments | Continued
Will Sarah Get Scozzafava’d?
Former presidential candidate John McCain is facing a tough primary this year against uber-wingnut former Congressman J.D. Hayworth. The polls show McCain leading by more than 20% but he is vulnerable. Last week he announced that Sarah Palin would campaign for him in Arizona (oh how the might have fallen). Some Palin [...]
27Jan2010 | Unstable Isotope | 1 comment | Continued
Flip Floppin’ McCain
I’m not even sure of the best word to describe this story. Is McCain just lying and hoping nobody can remember his health care plan from last year? Is he just become senile? Is he just a douchenozzle? Is McCain bitter, a hypocrite, a liar, a hypocritical liar?
John McCain, yesterday, while [...]
McCain Vulnerable For Senate Re-election
Just over one year ago, John McCain was the Republican nominee for president. Today he is vulnerable in his home state’s senate primary:
Rasmussen Reports finds Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) clinging to a two-point lead over a possible challenger, former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.). Chris Simcox, the leader of the anti-illegal immigration Minuteman Project who’s [...]
Blame McCain For Palin
Andrew Sullivan points out something obvious that has been missed. McCain was the one who brought Sarah Palin into the spotlight – she owes all her recent success in enriching Sarah Palin to him. Has McCain apologized yet?
We knew that about a charlatan like Kristol and a nihilist like Rove. But what I [...]
I Weep At This Tale Of Woe
Does anyone remember the McCain health care plan? Yeah, I didn’t either.
On the campaign trail, Holtz-Eakin promoted McCain’s plan to eliminate the tax exemption for employer-sponsored health insurance and give tax credits to individuals to buy their own coverage.
Republicans love them some tax credits! Anyway, McCain’s economic advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin is still unemployed and [...]
When Left Is Right And Right Is Just Lunacy
John McCain on Sarah Palin:
“I don’t think she quit.”
Um… that’s exactly what she did.
Requiem for a Maverick
Which is the name of this tour de force piece by Matt Taibbi in the latest Rolling Stone. A bit:
John McCain and Sarah Palin, after all, represented two completely different approaches to Republican conservatism. McCain comes from the school of politicking that goes after as many votes as possible by waving a flag and [...]
What If McCain’s Gaffes Were Obama’s
What’s frightening is the amount of gaffes.
4Nov2008 | nemski | 3 comments | Continued
UPDATE: What to Expect From DelawareLiberal This Week
Obviously, this is the biggest week on the calendar for political junkies. We are here to make sure you get your fix of Delaware politics during the next few days. So here is a rundown of what we will be doing.
Tomorrow, at least, Jason and I will be filing reports from the field during the [...]
McCain on SNL
Below the fold is SNL’s take on Keith Olbermann. The Richard Wolffe (?) impression is great.
2Nov2008 | nemski | 7 comments | Continued
When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Their Baghdad Bob On
This is from a McCain campaign memo from last night (h/t TPM):
Expanding the Field: Obama is running out of states if you follow out a traditional model. Today, he expanded his buy into North Dakota, Georgia and Arizona in an attempt to widen the playing field and find his 270 Electoral Votes. This is a [...]
Let’s Recap
Josh Marshall (TPM) compiles McCain’s greatest hits.
I had honestly forgotten how despicable the McCain Campaign has been. Tell me, John, was it worth it?
New Yorker Debunks Socialism Charge
Over at The New Yorker, Herdrik Herzberg lays out the socialism argument in all of its glory and they shows us that there isn’t much difference between McCain2000 and Obama2008 on that front. Oh and the real socialist candidate is Sarah Palin.
Let me forewarn Dominique, the author uses the word cudgel. For Dominiques’ convenience, here [...]
Culture War Greatest Hits
Chris Hayes over at The Nation writes:
The New York Times Magazine previews a piece from this week’s issue about the strangely careening tactical path of the McCain campaign as it’s bounced incoherently from message to message over the last several months.
One thing occurred to me: The Right’s attacks on Obama over the last year [...]
The Significance of Insignificant People
The insignificant person that I am speaking of is, of course, Ashley Todd. Ms. Todd, a Texan working on the McCain Campaign was in Pittsburgh when she made the accusation that a black Obama supporter had attacked her for her choice for President. Drudge jumped on it. This is to be expected. Drudge’s stock and [...]
24Oct2008 | liberalgeek | 20 comments | Continued
Surprise Part II
McCain’s Communications Director was pushing the Todd story with embellishments well before all of the facts were in.
So for all of those looking for their equivalencies with the thoughtless Trig business, start over. The Obama campaign wasn’t responsible for Trig (but some of his supporters most certainly were); but the McCain camp was actively [...]
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