McHypocrite a Leader...of Lobbyists
McBush is certainly a leader....of lobbyists, scandals and those defying the Constitution.
The latest from David Corn at Mother Jones: "For someone who wants to change Washington, John McCain has surrounded himself with plenty of guys who game the system. His campaign in recent weeks had to boot out a bunch of lobbyists, though his two top campaign aides—Rick Davis and Charles Black—remain in their posts, despite the fact they recently were high-powered lobbyists. Then there's Phil Gramm, a campaign cochairman and economic adviser to McCain. After leaving the US Senate, he became an executive and lobbyist for UBS, the Swiss mega-bank. And as I noted recently, eight years ago, when he chaired the Senate banking committee, he helped create the current subprime meltdown by slyly slipping into a must-pass appropriations measure a bill that completely deregulated certain financial instruments. Isn't that the sort of person you want advising a president and in line to be Treasury secretary?
"Gramm is back in the news today. The New York Times reports that federal authorities are investigating UBS to determine whether the bank helped thousands of wealthy Americans hide their assets from the IRS in UBS offshore accounts. Without mentioning that Gramm is a top McCain ally, the paper notes:
And this gem from ThinkProgress on McCain's anti-Constitution belief in Bush's illegal wiretapping: "The New York Times’ Charlie Savage reports that in a recent letter, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, top adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), said McCain believes that the Constitution gave President Bush the authority to wiretap Americans “without warrants,” bringing him “into closer alignment” with the Bush administration’s views of executive power. In the letter, Holtz-Eakin wrote:
"The flip-flop on Bush’s wiretapping program comes as McCain also recently embraced a key administration goal: retroactive telecommunications immunity. In May, a McCain lawyer said that the senator would support immunity for telecoms that aided the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program only if the companies offered “heartfelt repentance” for their actions.
"Days later, however, the McCain campaign said the lawyer “incorrectly represented” McCain’s position. Furthermore, in his recent letter, Holtz-Eakin emphasized that telecoms do not need to “apologize.”
Money, lobbyists...money, lobbyists...money, lobbyists...their leader McBush.
Flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop; repeat, flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop, repeat.....
McHypocrite has no integrity. He's just another avaricious multimillionaire Republican whose only principles are raking in money and the desire for imperial power in a authoritarian, unaccountable to Congress or the American people, unitary executive, just like Bush.
The latest from David Corn at Mother Jones: "For someone who wants to change Washington, John McCain has surrounded himself with plenty of guys who game the system. His campaign in recent weeks had to boot out a bunch of lobbyists, though his two top campaign aides—Rick Davis and Charles Black—remain in their posts, despite the fact they recently were high-powered lobbyists. Then there's Phil Gramm, a campaign cochairman and economic adviser to McCain. After leaving the US Senate, he became an executive and lobbyist for UBS, the Swiss mega-bank. And as I noted recently, eight years ago, when he chaired the Senate banking committee, he helped create the current subprime meltdown by slyly slipping into a must-pass appropriations measure a bill that completely deregulated certain financial instruments. Isn't that the sort of person you want advising a president and in line to be Treasury secretary?
"Gramm is back in the news today. The New York Times reports that federal authorities are investigating UBS to determine whether the bank helped thousands of wealthy Americans hide their assets from the IRS in UBS offshore accounts. Without mentioning that Gramm is a top McCain ally, the paper notes:
The case could turn into an embarrassment for Marcel Rohner, the chief executive of UBS and the former head of its private bank, as well as for Phil Gramm, the former Republican senator from Texas who is now the vice chairman of UBS Securities, the Swiss bank’s investment banking arm. It also comes at a difficult time for UBS, which is reeling from $37 billion in bad investments, many of them linked to risky American mortgages.
"So it's not too early to ask, What did Phil Gramm know about UBS' offshore practices, and when did he know it? And reporters ought to ask McCain if he has asked Gramm about this investigation. Another query: how long can Gramm remain on McCain's campaign?"
And this gem from ThinkProgress on McCain's anti-Constitution belief in Bush's illegal wiretapping: "The New York Times’ Charlie Savage reports that in a recent letter, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, top adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), said McCain believes that the Constitution gave President Bush the authority to wiretap Americans “without warrants,” bringing him “into closer alignment” with the Bush administration’s views of executive power. In the letter, Holtz-Eakin wrote:
"As Savage notes, this exoneration of the Bush administration is a stark departure from McCain’s expressed views on Bush’s wiretapping without a court order. In December, McCain, when asked if he would authorize illegal wiretapping, said the President should not disobey “any law“[H]earings purportedly designed to ‘get to the bottom of things’ have already occurred; and neither the Administration nor the telecoms need apologize for actions that most people, except for the ACLU and the trial lawyers, understand were Constitutional and appropriate in the wake of the attacks on September 11, 2001.
"The flip-flop on Bush’s wiretapping program comes as McCain also recently embraced a key administration goal: retroactive telecommunications immunity. In May, a McCain lawyer said that the senator would support immunity for telecoms that aided the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program only if the companies offered “heartfelt repentance” for their actions.
"Days later, however, the McCain campaign said the lawyer “incorrectly represented” McCain’s position. Furthermore, in his recent letter, Holtz-Eakin emphasized that telecoms do not need to “apologize.”
Money, lobbyists...money, lobbyists...money, lobbyists...their leader McBush.
Flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop; repeat, flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop, repeat.....
McHypocrite has no integrity. He's just another avaricious multimillionaire Republican whose only principles are raking in money and the desire for imperial power in a authoritarian, unaccountable to Congress or the American people, unitary executive, just like Bush.
Posted by Kaz at 6/6/2008 4:18 PM 
Categories: McCain, Republicans, greed, Ethics, 2008, Presidential Race, Repuglicans
Categories: McCain, Republicans, greed, Ethics, 2008, Presidential Race, Repuglicans
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