John McCain

Four out of every five House members who didn't side with their party on the health care bill represent districts that voted for the opposite party's presidential nominee in the 2008 election, CQ Politics reports. Meanwhile, the New York Times has an excellent chart that on the Democrats...

By Randy-G Obama Admitted He Is A Muslim? (video) “John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.” If Obama isn’t a Muslim, he sure seems to hold the the religion of the 9-11 hijackers and Osama Bin Laden in high regard. He talks about Islam a lot more than Christianity.

By Geoffrey Dunn Headlines recently declared "Sarah Palin's Speeches Were Ready but Never Seen -- Until Now." While Palin did not deliver her concession speech on election night, she did deliver most of it eight days later. In their new book Sarah From Alaska, Shushannah Walshe and Scott Conroy have provi...

By Geoffrey Dunn In their new book Sarah From Alaska, Shushannah Walshe and Scott Conroy have provided drafts of two versions of a speech that vice-presidential nominee Sarah... In their new book Sarah From Alaska, Shushannah Walshe and Scott Conroy have provided drafts of two versions of a speech that vic...

By Bob Burnett The American economy showed growth last quarter, primarily due to the Obama stimulus package (plus "cash for clunkers," another program that wouldn't have been initiated by a McCain Administration). If McCain had been elected President the recession would have mirrored The Great Dep...

By Bob Burnett The onset of the most significant US economic downturn since 1929 is a good reason for Americans to be depressed. Nonetheless, things would be a lot worse if John McCain had been elected President on November 4, 2008. More on Barack Obama

By () While DeVore’s campaign has likened the California primary to the contentious GOP primary in Florida with liberal Republican Governor Charlie Crist and conservative Marco Rubio, conservative activists have failed to coalesce behind DeVore in ways similar to Rubio in Florida, Hoff...

As they waited for election returns one year ago, , Barack Obama and , John McCain each prepared to give a speech. One would deliver an acceptance, the other a concession speech. Here's how it played out: 1,972 The number of words in Obama's acceptance speech 1,207 The number of words in McCai...

By Eric Ostermeier Ng, however, did receive 30.8 percent of the vote among the Democratic-heavy St. Paul population. This marks a 37.5 percent improvement for the self-described "center right conservative" over the 2008 presidential vote in St. Paul received by Republican John McCain (22.4 percent) and a 21.3...

I find it irrational for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to place so much pressure on President Obama when it comes to Afghanistan ("McCain wants Obama to make Afghan decision now," USATODAY.com, Wednesday).

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By Noel Sheppard After all, calling Scozzafava either moderate or a Republican is about as accurate as claiming the Philadephia Phillies beat the New York Yankees last night. John McCain is a moderate Republican. Dede Scozzafava is so liberal that even if she was a Democrat, she'd still be considered libe...

By nonnie9999 From POLITICAL ANIMAL at Washington MONTHLY (October 23, 2009): …snip… When can we expect rampant media talk about John McCain being “overexposed”? …snip… It appears that the Beltway media are just still in love with their maverick pal John McCain.

By CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart In an interview that aired Sunday, Sen. Kerry said 'the basic assumptions' in Afghanistan are very different from those during the Vietnam War. WASHINGTON (CNN) – Massachusetts Democrat Sen. John Kerry, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a Vietnam War veteran, said h...

By Ken Shepherd TAMRON HALL: The daughter of Sen. John McCain has received some not-so-flattering comments since posting this revealing photo of herself on the site with the words "my spontaneous night in." HALL: I don't know. Meghan is considered one of the new and bright voices of the Republican Party, a...

By Ron Chusid McCain worst move was to give prominence to the most reactionary and anti-intellectual factions of the party from Sarah Palin to Joe the Plumber. Even Steve Schmidt, his top political strategist in 2008, says that the nomination of Sarah Palin in 2012 would be catastrophic for the party.

By Jen Chung Kennedy's body will lie in state at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library for two days. Vice President Joe Biden, Senator John Kerry and Senator John McCain are expected to speak at the Friday night memorial. At the funeral at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica on Saturday, President Bar...

By Greg Mitchell The preposterous media coverage of the (few) unhappy Hillaryites at the Dem convention, which was aimed not at helping Obama but maintaining interest in the affair and the coming campaign, inspired McCain to select as his running mate someone who would virtually destroy his campaign.

By Seth Pendleton I know there must be one Republican out there with the courage to follow John McCain's example -- to take the microphone and turn away from the crazy person. During the presidential campaign, there were many things about John McCain that were hard to take. He was angry, awkward, and wrapped a...

By lpratapas Sen. John McCain announced Monday that he would not vote to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor. WASHINGTON (CNN) — After days of indecision, Sen. John McCain announced Monday he will oppose the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. The Arizona Republican said Sotomayor trie...

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 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 Make no mistake, a game-changer is exectly what McCain-land needs; after all, the only thing more distressing to them than Palin's dropping numbers is John McCain nosedive in the polls relative to Barack Obama. Read more: Vice Presidential Debate, Spin, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Debate,...

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 () It’s funny given that I run in both business and political circles, for years if not decades, I would consistently hear CEOs complain about politicians and Washington and state, “if politicians could only be for like us, Washington and this country would be a better place.”  In light of ou...

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 Dennis DiClaudio Hey, remember Mitt Romney? No? Okay, remember the blank wall that was standing next to John McCain and Rudy Giuliani through most of the Republican primary debates a year ago? That was Mitt Romney. And the American people deserve better than that. Well, a percentage of the American people.

By info@wrn.com The proposal amends Senate Rules, to allow points of order to be raised against unauthorized appropriations (earmarks), and policy riders in appropriations bills and conference reports in an effort to rein in wasteful pork barrel spending, according to Feingold.

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 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 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 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...

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

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.