John McCain

By Kristofer Lorelli Last week an esteemed former Democratic presidential nominee and sitting member of the U.S. Senate, took the latest juvenile potshot at Gov. Palin. After hearing that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford had gone missing for several days to have a rendezvous with his Argentine mistress, Sen. Joh...

By The Huffington Post News Editors John McCain and Sarah Palin both personally approved an intensive internal search of the emails of top campaign staffers in order to determine who had been leaking damaging information about Palin to reporters, McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt just told me in an interview.

By Mike Finnigan Jack & Jill Politics: New video from @WeekInBlackness - BET doesn't care about black people D-Day: The Maze of Food Policy NotionsCapital: American Milestone - 2.75 ton of fudge! James Wolcott: Sarah Palin taunts John McCain with her runaway caboose

By howmartin@msn.com (Howard Martin) John McCain: “[The CBO estimate] should be a wake up call for all of us to scrap the current bill and start over in a true bipartisan fashion.” John Boehner: “[T]he public option would cost over $1 trillion, and would cause 23 million Americans to lose their private health care coverage.”

By matt.welch@reason.com (Matt Welch) In case you needed any fresh reminders of why the gang at The Weekly Standard should never be within drop-kicking distance of the Oval Office, this Politico article about the Palin Wars within the McCain campaign last fall should do the trick. If Sarah Palin emerges as a 2012 front-runner f...

By matt.welch@reason.com (Matt Welch) Even as the Supreme Court signals a readiness to roll back still further the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act's restrictions on political speech, the law's famous backers, Sens. John McCain and Russ Feingold, are threatening to take their ball and go home if President Obama doesn't stack...

If he's not, some of his advisers sure are.

By David Neiwert Both Mark McKinnon and Nicolle Wallace, recently the McCain-Palin campaign's media gurus, were both on MSNBC this morning to talk ostensibly about serious subjects but eventually came around to the matter of Todd Purdum's Vanity Fair piece on Sarah Palin, in which they both figure pro...

By Kristofer Lorelli David Welch, deputy research director for the McCain-Palin ticket, said he was “shocked to read the Vanity Fair article about Governor Palin and the allegations made against her by former staffers” and complained “significant parts of the story are based on half truths and gossip from...

By The Huffington Post News Editors During an appearance on a local radio station in Phoenix, AZ this morning, a caller asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) when Republican leaders were going to emerge in Congress to "wake the American people up" to the "cap-and-tax" bill. "Why can't we get the House members and the Senate members to...

By Lee Fang Indeed, the McCain campaign paid $50,000 to HSI, the same firm that wrote their health plan, to produce “independent” comparisons between the McCain health plan versus Obama’s. Trying to conceal the payment, the McCain campaign reported the $50,000 as “legal consulting.” Strangely en...

By js609163 Sen. John McCain told CNN that the results of Iran's recent elections are 'very disappointing…but not astonishing.' (CNN) – Arizona Sen. John McCain responded sharply Monday to the disputed election result in Iran showing victory for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling the...

By M. Duss We are back with Senator John McCain. Of course Republican from Arizona and former presidential candidate. By the way, Senator Lieberman has a proposal that we put sanctions on countries that sell gasoline to Iran. MCCAIN: Maybe we ought to think about passing that legislation.

By The Huffington Post News Team Yesterday afternoon, Air America White House Correspondent (and friend to Eat The Press ) Ana Marie Cox interviewed Arizona Senator John McCain for her forthcoming... Yesterday afternoon, Air America White House Correspondent (and friend to Eat The Press ) Ana Marie Cox interviewed Ari...

By Brent Baker But Palin, along with her husband, got big cheers from the audience when they were introduced on stage at this fundraiser last night; and their table was the only one in the ballroom with a crowd around it. Several Republicans thanked Sarah Palin for showing up. Senator John McCain said it wa...

By The Huffington Post News Team lt;p>In the next few days, there's going to be an awful lot of wrangling over what the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/vice-presidential-debate_n_129907.html">expectations</a> ought to be for Sarah Palin in Thursday's vice presidential deb...

By Ron Chusid Independents remain supportive of Obama and the Democratic Party. I believe this is partially out of a realization that increased government economic action is necessary at the moment and a belief that this is temporary. While the Democratic Party in recent years has been becoming more f...

By David Neiwert(noreply@blogger.com) The latest step in Minutemen cofounder Chris Simcox's extreme makeover is now up for electoral review: Simcox is challenging John McCain in the Arizona 2010 GOP primary. A piece I wrote for The American Prospect last October exposed these dealings in even greater detail:

By David Neiwert You can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player! DOWNLOAD (209) PLAY (1209) The latest step in Minutemen cofounder Chris Simcox's extreme makeover is now up for electoral review: Simcox is challenging John McCain in the Arizona 2010 GOP primary.

By Andrew Malcolm So, you see, the new administration isn't really responsible for a Congress that should have passed this spending measure back in September pre-Katie Couric when Gov. Sarah Palin was all fresh, clean and exciting and a certain Illinois Democratic senator and a certain Delaware Democra...

By Pareene Coulter could be the poster woman for the most extreme side of the Republican Party. And in some ways I could be the poster woman for the opposite. Yes, well, everyone who thought about it for ten minutes figured this out 7 years ago, but for those who haven't, Ann actually answered some questi...

By John McQuaid So: the GOP "won" yesterday with Judd Gregg's pulling the plug on his own nomination. It sort of "wins" when Republican members of Congress rebuff Obama's overtures and give him no votes on key bills, which spark the usual raft of stories about how Obama has failed in his quest for Republica...

By John V. Santore Which makes me feel like my real motivation was an attempt to hide my own embarrassment about the decision to pick Daschle to being with. I tell friends these days that I'll never be angry at Obama, only disappointed. The difference between him and Bush is that Bush never even knew enough to ma...

gt;That the book "offers an example of the media's purported 'pro-Obama bias' that collapses on minimal review. In Chapter One, Goldberg cites as evidence the fact that The Early Show ran a segment called 'Five Things You Should Know About Barack Obama' that featured trivia about Obama. B...

By Pareene Joe the Plumber, whose name is not Joe and who is not a plumber, is a dumb Clinton-era parody of an "angry white man" convinced of various falsehoods and given to repeating them loudly to whoever will listen. For a time, last October, television cameras were the ones listening, and Joe happi...

By Brent Baker John McCain: Hard to forgive the nasty end-game, and Palin pick was iresponsible. But classy concession speech and Letterman gig. “Will”? Sarah Palin: She seemed like McCain's silver bullet...until she opened her mouth. A 2012 contender if she starts boning up on issues. Now.

By Jack Coleman Heading into the campaign's final stretch, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said to lefty radio host Ed Schultz that John McCain and Sarah Palin spent so much time in the Keystone State, "I'm thinking of charging them state income tax they've been here so often."

By Todd Gitlin Presumably out there in the land there's also "a lot of concern" about economic collapse and the fallout from eight years of divided rule when the party in charge of the presidency is Republican. It would be interesting to know whether Brokaw was equally concerned about "one party rule" wh...

By LeisureGuy John McCain’s Rib Recipe–in the CrockPot. Of course, I’ll used crushed garlic, not garlic powder. Fresh is better, right?        John McCain’s Rib Recipe–in the CrockPot. Of course, I’ll used crushed garlic, not garlic powder. Fresh is better, right?       

By Jack Coleman Seeing how Maddow is so stricken by "intellectual dishonesty," other potential examples come to mind. Her claim that Sen. Joe Lieberman said "exactly the same thing," for example. What Lieberman said was undeniably along the same lines as Biden, but with an important difference. Lieber...

By Ann Althouse(annalthouse@mac.com) SEN. McCAIN: Sure. Sure. MR. BROKAW: ...your comments about taxing wealthy Americans? SEN. McCAIN: Sure. SEN. McCAIN: Mm-hmm. MR. BROKAW: ...and this is what you had to say about wealthy Americans and taxes at that time. MR. BROKAW: And that's when Republicans called it socialism under FDR.

By Adrienne Birecree John McCain decries middle class tax cuts as "socialism" because they "spread the wealth around." What are tax cuts for corporate America and the wealthy then? There indeed has been an increase in "socialism" in the U.S. but a smokescreen of conservative ideological rhetoric has hidden it...

By Steve Clemons This is by far the best start I have seen for Barack Obama. McCain: "Senator McCain. . .I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago. . ." It's getting more tense. McCain and Obama tied -- but that wasn't good enough for John McCain.

By Lynda Waddington “I’m calling Iowans on behalf of John McCain, Sarah Palin and the RNC because Congressional Democrats’ response to the June floods was not only embarrassing, it was negligent,” the male voice said on the recorded call. “While John McCain took time from campaigning to survey the damage ca...

By Stephen A. LeMay Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe that it is critically important for the United States to rebuild its national transportation infrastructure -- its highways, bridges, roads, ports, air, and train systems -- to strengthen user safety, bolster our long-term competitiveness and ens...

Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. McCain Looking to Patch Things Up With Letterman (NYP) David Letterman and Sen. John McCain are talking about making up. McCain representatives and Late Show executives are negotiating an appearance on Letterman's show s...

By Justin McCarthy McCAIN: My interpretation of the Constitution of the United States is that the United States Supreme Court enforces the Constitution of the United States and does not legislate nor invent areas that are responsibilities, according to the Constitution, of the legislative branch.

By Justin McCarthy From the day John McCain announced her as running mate, the press has stirred up nearly every negative story it can find about Governor Palin some just internet rumors. Some attacked her family life wondering aloud if she can run a country and a family at the same time. Some ran false stories a...

By Nicole Belle On MSNBC this evening Andrea Mitchell reported on how minimal John McCain’s interactions with his choice for vice president, Sarah Palin, have been. According to Mitchell, McCain only met Palin once.   Download | Play   Download | Play  (h/t Heather)

AP) John McCain could get results today from the biopsy done on a patch of skin removed from his face during a recent checkup. ... Housing prices plummet...Improvements in Knoxville...McCain awaits ... Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck Mixed economic news...Obama sets meetings...US troop deaths down ... Reit...

By Joseph A. Palermo It really makes the Iraq debate easy for John McCain when he throws around words like "win" and "victory" and "prevail" and "success" without really defining what they mean. A short time ago he was calling for American troops to remain in Iraq forever and that Obama was "naive" for suggesti...

Congressman Xavier Becerra (D-CA) and Eliseo Medina held a conference call today to respond to John McCain's speech at NCLR, and call for straight talk from the GOP candidate on his promise of a third Bush term and contradictions on immigration reform.

McCain: Social Security funding now a disgrace. "The system for funding Social Security is ''a disgrace' because it forces young workers to pay into a program that is unlikely to benefit them in its current form, Republican presidential candidate John McCain said this week, wading into...

Colombia leads the world, there are more trade unionists killed in Colombia than the rest of the world combined. Now presumably that earns them the privilege of a trade agreement with the United States, but we find it an outrage, American workers find it an outrage...the fact that McCain's...no...

By Domenico Montanaro Dear John: Barack Obama United States Senator February 6, 2006 The Honorable Barack Obama United States Senate SH-713 Washington, DC 20510 John McCain United States Senate February 6, 2006 Dear John: Barack Obama United States Senator

On The Sean Hannity Show, Hannity questioned McCain about allegedly being "heckled by the CNN reporter Michael Ware." McCain replied: HANNITY: What happened at this press conference? You were in Baghdad you were with Senator Graham.

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Sen. John McCain said Tuesday he hopes to patch things up with conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who recently said he wouldn't support the Republican's presidential bid under any circumstances.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Sen. John McCain said Tuesday he hopes to patch things up with conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who recently said he wouldn't support the Republican's presidential bid under any circumstances....

AP - Sen. John McCain said Tuesday he hopes to patch things up with conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who recently said he wouldn't support the Republican's presidential bid under any circumstances.