McCain about to jump off sinking ship

[Botany]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aPSWDyS0P7MM&refer=top_world_news



McCain Says Abramoff Probe Will Lead to More Indictments

Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Senator John McCain said he expects ``lots'' of indictments to grow out of the federal investigation of lobbyist Jack Abramoff and that there was ``strong evidence'' of wrongdoing by some lawmakers.

``This town has become very corrupt, there's no doubt about it,'' McCain said today on NBC's ``Meet the Press'' program.


:popcorn:

BTW if Tom DeLay was in the water would you throw him a life ring?

[Deep13]

1. Thanks for helping put them all in office, Senator!

[burythehatchet]

2. If his hair was on fire

I wouldn't piss on him.

[SharonRB]

3. Only if it was made of lead.

[MsAnthropy]

4. Today he says that, tomorrow will be COMPLETELY different

How many personalities does that guy have?

[Beaverhausen]

5. I agree. He needs to pick a side and stick to it

Just when I want to start liking him he does something like kissing *s ass and I remember that a repuke is always a repuke.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Very interesting

I'm surprised on McCain's stance and he's even talking about it.

[Botany]

8. I am not .....

He wants to be President and is now distancing himself from the
cancer of the dirty republicans.

I will never understand how he hugged * after Rove ran the "Black
Love Child Story," on him in S. Carolina in 2000.

[Arkansas Granny]

16. Agreed. He's trying to show that he's not part of the corruption.

And I think he was truly upset about Cunningham and the defense contracts because that would have meant that our soldiers were being outfitted with inferior equipment just so Cunningham could line his own pockets.

I used to have a lot of respect for John McCain. I felt that he was a reasonable man, even if I didn't share his views. When I saw him hug Bush after all slime that Rove and his minions had smeared him with, I lost a lot of the respect I had. I still respect him for his service to our country, but other than that, he's just another right wing toady for Bush.

[iconoclastNYC]

7. Wrong: McCain about to waltz in as reformer.

Here nominate me I'll clean all this up.

Of course he's a Republican so it will all be for show...and we move closer to a police state where the president is a dictator.

[blm]

10. I agree with your take - he's already backtracked with the religious right

who he is now buddying up to in an effort to get their support from their likely choice, George Allen.

[Double T]

9. If Tom DeLay was in the water, I would NOT throw him a life ring BUT......

I would throw him a boat anchor. Looks like the WH is the TITANIC and they have struck an iceberg. Won't be long before bush and cheney man the life boats, maybe then we can find a real captain to lead the ship out of troubled waters.

[Botany]

11. bush & company are without a doubt going down.

I just wonder 2 things:

Would McCain vote to convict in the Senate after bush is impeached?
Will they go down before 2006?

[punpirate]

12. Quite humorous...

... for a guy who started his senatorial career by buddying up to Charles Keating.

Lucky he danced away from that one, eh?

[Old and In the Way]

14. My thoughts exactly. Keating 5, anyone?

That was, if anything, the precursor for the new Republican business model.

McCain can bloviate all he wants....in the end, he's stll a Republican who has a vested interest in the status quo.

[AlinPA]

18. Yep, I don't trust him. At one time I had respect for him. Not after his

sucking up to Bush**.

[Nite Owl]

13. McCain campaigned for

dimson and now he's going to distance himself? Too little, too late. He has no standing anymore.

[WI_DEM]

15. Too bad McCain isn't one of them

He is positioning himself for an '08 run

[truebrit71]

17. Yes. A lead one.

:evilgrin:

[Disturbed]

20. John McCain, Hypocrite

John McCain, Hypocrite
by Doug Ireland

John McCain, the media's darling, has found a clever way around his own campaign finance reform law to take big corporate bucks in furtherance of his political ambitions while carrying water for the corporate mammoth providing the dough. But the national press is ignoring the story.


The Associated Press first ran the story of John McCain's odorous but lucrative Senatorial service to the communications giant Cablevision on the afternoon of March 7. But, while some local papers in McCain's home state (like the East Valley Tribune) have run the story, nothing has as yet made it into the print editions of the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Washington Post, or any of the half-dozen other big city dailies I checked (although, if one searches the hundreds of AP stories available on the Post's website on its Politics page by clicking on "Latest Wire Reports," one can find it there--but how many readers would bother to do that?) One notable exception: the Kansas City Star.


Here's what the AP's investigation found:


McCain repeatedly intervened on behalf of a policy Cablevision favored -- one which "congressional and private studies conclude could make cable more expensive" -- while his chief political adviser, Rick Davis (who's masterminding McCain's probable '08 presidential rerun) solicited $200,000 in contributions from Cablevision to an institute that promotes McCain and pays Davis a $110,000 annual salary.


The Reform Institute was set up to promote McCain and his issues--especially campaign finance reform, embodied in the famous McCain-Feingold law. This Institute is "a tax-exempt group that touts McCain's views and has showcased him at events since his unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign," and it "often uses the senator's name in press releases and fund-raising letters and includes him at press conferences," the AP says. And, of course, it provides a cushy sinecure with no heavy lifting for McCain's main man, Davis, as he prepares the pontificating Senator's next presidential run. Cablevision's contributions account for a whopping 15% of the Institute's budget.


http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0309-35.htm


** I am going to post this for a few months everytime I see McCain's name on DU.

[dutchdemocrat]

19. Citizen McCain:Hugging the Hard Right Shore

Chris Floyd certainly doesn't take a shine to McCain...

Citizen McCain:Hugging the Hard Right Shore



This Nation article ("The Real McCain") is a good antidote for all those naïfs out there who believe that John McCain is some kind of "maverick," a genuine alternative to the hard-right Bushist machine. If anything, McCain's rock-ribbed conservative credentials have long been more solid than Bush's. Read McCain's gushy, cringing praises of his Glorious Leader below and you will know exactly what we have here: another Colin Powell, riding a media-concocted image of bipartisan statesmanship to national prominence, but when the chips are down, falling dutifully into line behind the ruthless agenda of the predatory Right. God save us from any more such poseurs.

http://chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=312&Itemid=1