McCain Picks Up Where He Left Off on Earmarks, Lobbying
The Arizona Republican was on familiar turf Wednesday inside the Senate television studio — nine weeks and one day after losing the presidential election to Barack Obama — pushing for earmark and lobbying overhauls alongside longtime legislative partner Russ Feingold , a Wisconsin Democrat. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
McCain will do anything to help himself. He escaped censure in Keats because he was a Republican in a Republican senate. After the thumping he did get, he joined Feingold in campaign finance reform to re-establish his political status. And earmarks are small potatoes when you can get whole bills to give away a trillion to corporate executives. Earmarks are a problem, but they are window dressing given the current corruption.