Can You Hear Me Now, John McCain?
After signing on to public financing of his campaign, long enough to utilize it as collateral for a loan, John McCain opted out, likely in violation of election campaign laws. That’s the real legacy of the guy who touted campaign finance reform as one of his greatest achievements. And now, his other claim to be a corporate campaign finance reformer is coming under fire. It seems that 66 corporate lobbyists work for his campaign in political or fundraising roles and 23 of them have represented telecommunications companies.
For months now, the Bush administration and Congress have fought over the FISA intelligence reform bill with the major sticking point of retroactive immunity for the illegal wiretapping done at Bush’s behest that many telecoms were complicit in doing. Bush maintains they need legal protection to maintain their cooperation in ongoing and future intelligence efforts. A majority in the House of Representatives are convinced that’s nonsense and the telecoms should have adhered to the law.
McCain, of course, supports the retroactive immunity provision. That his campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, Senate chief of staff, campaign finance director and numerous others working for him directly or in his behalf is purely coincidental, we’re supposed to believe.
Uh-huh.
More and more, it looks like Clean John could use a toilet bowl brush to get out those pesky stains and the odor they provide.
Be sure to read the list of the lobbyists involved and ask yourself if you’d buy a used porta-potty from such a retro-rooter.
March 24th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
[…] 23 of the 66 lobbyists on his staff have represented telecoms that sold the American people out to the Bush-Cheney surveillance state. […]
March 24th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I just wish that O and H would take a deep breath, turn away from their battle with each other and synchronize and focus their aggressions with lazerlike precision directly at John McBush who is not only getting a free ride from the MSM scum, but lots of good swiftboating material to use against whoever wins of the two. All Dems and Independents for O or H need to pull themselves up by their bootstaps out of the mudslinging against the others’ choice and unite to put one of them into the Whitehouse instead of being pawns in the Cable TV news manipulations to give it all to McWarmonger. If we all just STOP enjoying all this bitching and moaning at each other and swear off the divisive crap, refuse to attack each others’ Dem choices and attack Johnny boy instead, I believe we could prevail in the end. C’mon, let’s roll.