John McCain

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) describes a new bill in the Senate that would provide Iranian people with an opportunity to receive communications from the outside world. June 25, 2009. Distributed by Tubemogul.

GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK), campaign in O'Fallon, MO. video.aol.com

Demonstrators briefly interrupted Sen. John McCain as he accepted the Republican Party's presidential nomination in St. Paul, Minnesota Thursday ... video.aol.com

New Hampshire officials said a record 500,000 voters were expected to take part in the primary Tuesday, and Sen. John McCain hoped the results ... video.aol.com

Click The Yellow Button to Subscribe! NBCs Brian Williams asks Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin about how they define the word terrorist and ... www.veoh.com

CNN's Rick Sanchez asks the independent candidate why he's a better choice than Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. John McCain. video.aol.com

Denver, CO) The new 30-second ad by the McCain-Palin campaign markets Republican Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the "original ... www.truveo.com

Related articles from AOL Video and more.

CNN Live stream Gov. John McCain Announces Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate Palin as vice president pickStory Highlights NEW: Sen ... www.truveo.com

Related articles from Veoh and more.

Discussing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R) prospects as Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) running mate this morning on Fox and Friends, Brian Kilmeade said ... video.aol.com

Sen. John McCain accepts his party’s nomination to be the next President of the United States. More coverage of McCain’s speech at the RNC video.aol.com

By rss@youtube.com (LILVOKA) Gallup Poll Obama 49% - McCain 43% Still a small lead for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, overall! The McCain campaign hits back against the media. Sarah Palin must deliver a monumental speech, to energize the conservative base. So far, Obama hits Republican Sen. John McCain over his stance on...

U.S. Sen. John McCain predicted success in the Afghan war effort Friday if President Obama makes a decision quickly to send the ...

Related articles from Seattle Times.

U.S. Sen. John McCain predicted success in the Afghan war effort Friday if President Barack Obama makes a decision quickly to send the reinforcements requested by his top commander there.

Related articles from USA Today.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox, oracle? President Obama makes a cameo appearance in a Thanksgiving-related PSA. Sen. Roland Burris was admonished by the Senate ethics committee. Sen. John McCain might have a tough time holding on to his seat.

By Think Progress Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) trashes the efforts by his former best friends, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) to develop climate and clean energy legislation: “Obviously, they’re going nowhere.” The Department of Labor announced “nearly $55 million in grants to help wo...

By webmaster@nationalreview.com (Robert Costa) “I’m sure they were talking about more than the weather,” Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) tells NRO. Look, says McCain, “there should not be a surprise boost in Medicaid funding for states that have been declared disaster areas in the last seven years. If you look at what’s in that provision, you se...

A new Rasmussen Reports survey in Arizona finds Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in a virtual tie with potential Republican primary challenger J.D. Hayworth (R), who is currently mulling a run. McCain barely edges Hayworth, 45% to 43%.

Washington -- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Wednesday didn't back off his contention that Chrysler Group LLC won't survive but acknowledged that some unobjective people might not share his view.

Former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said Thursday he has read Sarah Palin's book and has no regrets about picking her as a running mate. "I felt honored to have Sarah," said Mr. McCain, Arizona Republican. "There's no doubt she energized our party and America. She's doing it today."...

A real conservative Please wake up, Colorado Republicans. Do not let Sen. John McCain, his colleagues, big money, and the Republican elites select the candidate they want to come to Washington. We don't need another Washington insider in Washington. They selected Jane Norton to run for Sen...

By Sen. Fritz Hollings In the last ten years, the United States has lost one-third of its manufacturing and now imports a majority of what we consume. Long before today's recession, the United States lost a substantial portion of its production of textiles, shoes, watches, radios, TVs, steel, electronics, co...

By Flap Earlier this month, Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Senator Jon Kyl (R-Arizona), Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Senato...

People cannot get enough of this women — the first printing of “Going Rogue” was 1.5 million copies. To her credit, the Palin frenzy began long before HarperCollins announced her 400-page book deal. She sparked the public’s — and media’s — attention the moment Sen. John McCain revealed her as...

By KEN DILANIAN and TOM VANDEN BROOK USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The Pentagon should rewrite ethics rules for retired generals who work as advisers for the military while representing defense contractors, Arizona Sen. John McCain and other lawmakers said Wednesday.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has been facing a conundrum lately: Sarah Palin's new book is filled with explicit criticism of his campaign staff, and in some cases even implicit criticism of him personally. But it wouldn't look good for him to lock horns with her publicly, and the Republican b...

Related articles from telegraph.co.uk and more.

The U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command issued the following news release: Top leaders from the 56th Fighter Wing salute the arrival of U.S. Senator John McCain on the flightline at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Nov 13, 2009. Sen. McCain visited Luke and held a press conference to disc...

Sen. John McCain Disputes that Sarah Palin had to Pay for her Vetting Fees

By laurkorn McCain said Palin's legal bills were for 'troopergate.' WASHINGTON (CNN) – Days after telling his former staffers to avoid responding to charges in Sarah Palin's new book, Sen. John McCain has spoken up to deny that his campaign made her pay for her own vice presidential vetting. The former...

Washington, D.C. -- Two years after enacting critical reforms of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and John McCain (R-AZ) are asking the Administration why little progress has been made to implement them. Those reforms, passed in the wake of Hurricane Katrin...

Byline: Dan Weil Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was one of the most vehement critics ofthe government auto bailout.Now he says that the governments $15 billion in loans wont be enough to save the weakest of the former Big Three, Chrysler LLC.I don't think we ever should have bailed out Chrysler an...

By AZ BlueMeanie John McCain has received government run health care since birth (with the exception of his stay in the Hanoi Hilton which will be the first words out of his mouth). He was born into a Navy family and went into the Navy himself. The military provided for his health care. When he retired from the Na...

By nonnie9999 Republican Sen. John McCain, who lifted former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin out of obscurity to be his vice presidential partner last year, isn’t saying much about Palin’s new tell-all, blame-all book. But Steve Schmidt, who managed the campaign and is a chief target in the book, doesn’t think m...

By Miles Mogulescu Surely Sen. John Kerry--who now chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee--is aware of the powerful impact that Congressional hearings about a controversial war can have on American politics. It was during 11 days of televised Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings in 1971 t...

By webmaster@nationalreview.com (Mark Krikorian) The Washington Post had a nice feature Sunday on the revival of the Republican party in an Indiana county through the eyes of the county chairman. This sentence spoke volumes: Riley tried to rally support behind Sen. John McCain during the 2008 election because, he said, "it was a requireme...

1. Vice President Biden will be in Phoenix, Ariz. this morning to raise money for targeted Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick and Harry Mitchell just one day after he was in Las Vegas to raise cash for Nevada Rep. Dina Titus. All three House members represent competitive districts; Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) wo...

Arizona Sen. John McCain said Sunday that Chrysler Group LLC is unlikely to survive, despite receiving nearly $15 billion in government loans. McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, reiterated his opposition to the $80 billion auto industry bailout begun by President Ge...

By Jeff Poor Mike Allen of Politico previewed the cover in the Nov. 14 edition of his "Playbook." In it, he included these comments from Newsweek editor John Meacham who blamed Palin for Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., struggles with his conservative base in South Carolina. One of those struggles for Graham w...

By peterhamby Sen. John McCain spoke to reporters in Arizona on Friday. (CNN) – Sen. John McCain has already received a signed copy of Sarah Palin's new memoir "Going Rogue," but the former Republican presidential nominee hasn't read it yet. "I've just received a signed copy from her yesterday, so I will re...

By peterhamby McCain wants suspected terrorists tried in military tribunals. WASHINGTON (CNN) – Sen. John McCain hammered the Obama administration Friday for its decision to try accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other suspected terrorists in a civilian court in New York.

The office of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., issued the following news release: U.S. Senator John McCain (R AZ) issued the following statement on the Obama Administration's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and four other Al-Qaeda terrorists suspected of planning and executing th...

New York Palin confirms campaign tensions with McCain aides The rumors are true, according to Sarah Palin: The McCain-Palin campaign was not a happy family. In Going Rogue, Palin confirms reports of tension between her aides and those of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, Sen....

Nov. 13--The auditorium at Kofa High School was packed to the rafters Thursday night by hundreds of people who wanted to hear what Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had to say about health care, and the current situation in Afghanistan. After a brief opening statement, members of the audience were e...

Related articles from Seattle Times.

The following information was released by the Illinois Republican Party: By Fred Barbash - Politico Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) Wednesday called the Fort Hood killings an "act of terror" and joined a parade of GOP critics in suggesting that "political correctness" might have been a facto...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican and former presidential candidate, called last week's shooting at Fort Hood "an act of terror" during a speech Wednesday at the University of Louisville.

By aubreycohen@seattlepi.com (Aubrey Cohen) U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is questioning the U.S. Air Force's draft aerial refueling tanker selection criteria, according to a Reuters report.

By Jim Newell Lindsey Graham - Joe Lieberman - John Kerry - Republican - Barack Obama Beloved South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is gay for three things: Joe Lieberman, John McCain, and acting like a responsible adult once every year or so, to no avail. It is for Lindsey Graham’s latest bout with his third...

By PETE ABEL, Managing Editor Need a shocker? Compare the map that elected Jimmy Carter president in 1976 — a solidly Democratic south counterbalanced by a solidly Republican west coast — and the one that elected Barack Obama in 2008 — the northeast and west coast for Obama, the plains and south for Sen. John McCain (Ari...

By Jason Hancock Before his trip to Iowa, Pawlenty had taken heat for endorsing the Conservative Party candidate over the Republican in Tuesday’s U.S. House district in New York. He then called moderate Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine “more liberal than most Republicans would like.”

November 5, 2009 | 7:45 am Republican Sen. John McCain, who has been urging... haven't made a decision,'' McCain (R-Ariz.), said in an... of additional troops in Afghanistan. McCain, who challenged Obama for the... am just very disappointed,'' McCain said. "I hope the president...." See the full report o...

Related articles from The Swamp.

By Mark Silva by Mark Silva Republican Sen. John McCain, who has been urging the White House to support a significant new troop deployment in Afghanistan, says he is "past being a bit angry.'' "I'm disappointed that we haven't made a decision,'' McCain... by Mark Silva

Related articles from ragingbull.quote.com.

By Brian Doherty Of the nine Democrats on this list, six represent districts that voted for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) over Obama for president in 2008. Freshman Reps. Bobby Bright (D-Ala.) and Walt Minnick (D-Idaho) each represents a district that favored McCain by a margin of 26 points.

As expected, Carly Fiorina is running for Senate in California. The former Hewlett-Packard CEO and 2008 surrogate for John McCain will face conservative former Assemblyman Chuck DeVore in the GOP primary before she gets a chance at Sen. Barbara Boxer (D).

By BarbinMD How sad -- he obviously feels John and Jane Q. Public's pain: If history had taken a different course, Doug Holtz-Eakin would be inside the McCain White House driving the Republican president's domestic agenda, including health-care reform. But now, one year after Sen. John McCain (R-Ari...

Sen. John McCain says Americans are in the toughest times he can remember and that President Barack Obama hasn't brought the change in Washington that he promised.

Related articles from Hotels Magazine.

By pparets Lieberman Marching Further Right in 2010 Lieberman infuriated fellow Democrats in 2008 by supporting Republican presidential nominee John McCain as well as congressional candidates Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.

By Mark Murray From NBC's Mark MurrayThis isn't going to sit well with many Democrats. In an interview with ABC, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-D) -- who campaigned for John McCain in last year's presidential election, and has threatened to help filibuster the health care legislation in the Senate if it contai...

By Mike "Gamecock" Devine Lieberman infuriated fellow Democrats in 2008 by supporting Republican presidential nominee John McCain as well as congressional candidates Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. This conservative Republican rooster is ready to crow with joy if he does.

By Mark Murray Republican Sen. John McCain, along with four of his colleagues on the Hill, yesterday introduced a bipartisan post-9/11 Troops to Teachers Enhancement Act, which expands and modernizes the current Troops to Teachers (TTT) program with the goal of having more troops continue their ser...

By LeisureGuy Amazing the Senators you can buy with a little cash. From an email from the Center for American Progress: On Thursday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) thrust himself into the technology issues debate by introducing the "Internet Freedom Act." The legislation would prohibit the Federal Communica...

Related articles from Wonkette, Think Progress and more.

By Patricia Murphy And finally, if you want a friend in Washington, try to do whatever Dick Cheney isn't doing. The Hill writes that when asked about the former veep accusing President Obama of "dithering" over the strategy in Afghanistan, Sen. Orin Hatch (R-Utah) said Sunday, "I would never want to call my pr...

By Bruce Drake Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on CBS' Face the Nation that the bombings should not prompt the U.S. to change its mind about withdrawing its forces from Iraq. He said the Iraqi government "srill has a ways to go" in ensuring securit...

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is vulnerable right now. He just introduced legislation to kill the open Internet, the deceptively named "Internet Freedom Act." This comes from a Senator who has received more money ($894,379) from AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and their lobbyists than any other...

By Sam Gustin Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican, introduced a bill late Thursday that would short-circuit the FCC's ability to enforce its proposed open Internet rules. In... Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican, introduced a bill late Thursday that would short-circuit the FCC's ability to e...

By Think Progress Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and Kit Bond (R-MO), working with the American Trucking Association and the American Farm Bureau, claimed clean energy legislation is a “giant new gas tax,” based on the National Black Chamber of Commerce’s 40-year estimate of a “$3.6 trillion surtax on g...

By Jill Lawrence Clinton, playing his part, looked bemused. "You gotta love this guy," he said. Meanwhile, McDonnell is getting his own high-wattage help from people like Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, and Sheila Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television.

By Domenico Montanaro Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) echoed those sentiments, but he got in the following as well: "It is unrealistic to expect Afghan governance to improve significantly without improved security.That is why it is essential to implement the properly-resourced counterinsurgency strategy that Ge...

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 Tim Graham Two months ago, Matthew Balan of NewsBusters forced Sanchez to retract his claim that Sen. John McCain said Republicans needed to recruit "competent" Hispanics, which inflamed CNN analyst Roland Martin. McCain never used that word.

By Matt Lewis Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain and a writer for The Daily Beast, has threatened to quit Twitter after a sexy self-portrait she posted on the popular micro-blogging site stirred controversy.  Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

By David Waldman Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine) is risking a shot at becoming the top Republican on an influential Senate committee by backing Democratic healthcare legislation, according to senators on the panel. No such thoughts on the Democratic side, however. Or so some would have you believe.

By Doug Mataconis WASHINGTON (CNN) – Former Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain is openly admitting that there were tensions between his former campaign manager Steve Schmidt and those close to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, McCain’s one-time White House running mate. Still, McCain calls...

Related articles from Politics Daily.

By Jeff Poor Here was a chance for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. to admit he was wrong, and to conclude publicly that government intervention in the private sector doesn't always result in the best of outcomes. The question remains - because King didn't ask it - whether McCain regrets voting for TARP in 2008. B...

By AZ BlueMeanie Conservative radio commentator and former Scottsdale congressman J.D. Hayworth is considering a run against U.S. Sen. John McCain in next year’s Republican primary. The Neocon Washington Post's Chris Cilizza also reported the speculation in his column The Fix:

By pparets Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, today urged President Obama to move with “deliberate speed” on a decision to increase troops in Afghanistan as his generals have requested, saying that to disregard their advice would be an “error of historic p...

Related articles from Below The Beltway, Politics Daily.

By Bruce Drake Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, today urged President Obama to move with "deliberate speed" on a decision to increase troops in Afghanistan as his generals have requested, saying that to disregard their advice would be an "error of historic p...

Related articles from Say Anything, Below The Beltway.

By Michael Doerr Sen. John McCain is, as Politico noted last week, “working behind-the-scenes to reshape the Republican Party in his own center-right image.” The loser of last year’s run for the White House is recruiting candidates, raising money and campaigning for them, and even taking sides in GOP Sen...

By kos The Rubio campaign has now proven it's a legitimate effort for the nomination,'' said John Weaver, a national GOP strategist who worked for former presidential nominee John McCain. "While the governor obviously is the front-runner, it is no longer far-fetched to see how Marco Rubio win...

By Steve Padilla Meanwhile, the Whitman campaign announced today that she has won the endorsement of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. In a statement the campaign says she’s already been endorsed by former California Gov. Pete Wilson, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Arizona Sen. John McCain. N...

By M. Duss Newsweek editor John Meacham seems to set out to rebut Fareed Zakaria’s pro-containment argument, but ends up strengthening it. He also produces a quote from Sen. John McCain that represents a more significant shift — both in terms of McCain’s views and for the debate over Iran more genera...

By Think Progress As Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA) prepare to introduce comprehensive clean-energy jobs legislation today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says he could “never, never, never” support it. The New York Times’ David Leonhardt explains “how a tax can cut health costs.”

By noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Gelman) According to a new survey by Prince & Associates, voters worth $1 million to $10 million are favoring Sen. John McCain, while voters worth $30 million or more are favoring Sen. Barack Obama. The survey of 493 families showed: More than three quarters of those worth $1 million to $10 milli...

By pparets Yesterday, Senator John McCain pointedly reacted to the President’s waffling on this critical issue. WASHINGTON (CNN) – Sen. John McCain questioned the Obama administration’s approach in Afghanistan Tuesday, saying he has never seen such a “disconnect” between the White House and le...

By Igor This morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) honored Ted Kennedy’s legacy by disingenuously arguing that Kennedy’s absence from the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) mark-up hearings allowed Democrats to reject Republican amendments “of any significance”...

By The Huffington Post News Editors The New York Post's Maxine Shen reports that McCain will guest host the show for three days, starting September 9 (the Wednesday after Labor Day). While the Post describes McCain as "the divisive daughter of Sen. John McCain," it's Hill that may prove to be a more controversial choice of co-...

By info@reason.com (Allen Carrington Brooks) There's already a Wii in the White House, but the day when Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) have an impromptu Halo tournament in their offices is still a ways off. Video games in Washington have had a checkered past, but games are making their way inside the Beltway, and that p...

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 Senate Guru At RobertPortman.com, the Ohio Democratic Party has put up a website highlighting Portman's leadership role on Bush's failed economic policies. They do a strong job, both textually and visually, of pointing out that Portman is a Bush Republican, and that Bush's policies very much are Po...

By The Huffington Post News Team Sen. John McCain said he was surprised but not "shocked" by the resignation of his former runningmate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. On NBC's Meet the... Sen. John McCain said he was surprised but not "shocked" by the resignation of his former runningmate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. On NBC's Meet the Pres...

By Last Best Hope “Today, we celebrate our independence, declared 233 years ago, achieved through the trial of a long and difficult war, and preserved through the years with the blood and sacrifice of millions. It’s an occasion for Americans to reunite with family and enjoy a mid-summer holiday with picn...

By M. Duss Matt Corley already commented on a section of this clip, in which Sen. John McCain treated Iran’s Supreme Leader with the same “abject solicitousness” that Charles Krauthammer condemned from the president. But I think the segment is worth seeing in its longer form, as it neatly encapsula...

WASHINGTON – The Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint over the $150,000-plus designer wardrobe the Republican Party bought to outfit vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The Alaska governor was Sen. John McCain’s pick for vice president. The purchases from such h...

By Max Twain Awww, poor Meghan.  Political blogger Meghan McCain isn’t exactly the toast of D.C. right now. Sen. John McCain’s daughter — who writes online for The Daily Beast and will soon release a book about life as a Republican — lost it after getting stopped by security when she arrived at the White H...

By Satyam Khanna Today, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) about his views on DADT. McCain did not commit to changing the policy, saying, “in all due respect, right now the military is functioning extremely well” without openly-gay service members. McCain concluded that the polic...

By Robin Abcarian McCain picked 1957's "Paths of Glory."  (Then-Sen. Joseph Biden picked "Dead Poets Society." Sen. Orrin Hatch chose "To Kill a Mockingbird." That year's Democratic vice presidential nominee, John Edwards, who has returned to the headlines this week with the disclosure that his wife threw...

By David Neiwert But I was not referring to Asano, nor was my source Sen. Kennedy. Instead I was referencing the statement of a different member of the Senate: John McCain. On November 29, 2007, Sen. McCain, while campaigning in St. Petersburg, Florida, said, "Following World War II war crime trials were conve...

By Flap Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain, arrives at Perez Hilton’s 31st Birthday Party in West Hollywood, Calif. on Saturday, March 28, 2009 I don’t think Meghan who is reaping the “Maverick” rewards by being a tool of the LEFT wants to clash with the REAL DEAL about values and the Republ...

By Jay Cost In an interview with the Washington Times, John McCain made the following point: Sen. John McCain, an architect of sweeping campaign-finance reform who got walloped by a presidential candidate armed with more than $750 million, predicts that no one will... In an interview with the Washing...

By Ken Shepherd MCCAIN: Twitter interview with George S at noon. STEPHANOPOLOUS: @SenJohnMcCain Obama says GOP can't "just say no" on budget Will you offer a full alternative to Obama budget? MCCAIN: @GStephanopoulos too early to draw that conclusion.

By ESNEAD Meghan McCain, the daughter of miniature Republican Sen. John McCain, is furious with radio host Laura Ingraham over remarks about Meghan's weight Yeah, and especially a conservative Republican! What’s up with that? Meghan McCain dish: Photo: The McCain family. Credit: FilmMagic

By () SEN. GRAHAM (R-SC) & SEN. SCHUMER (D-NY) ON MTP: On NBC’s Meet the Press, host David Gregory held a discussion between Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). SEN. GRAHAM (R-SC) & SEN. SCHUMER (D-NY) ON MTP: On NBC’s Meet the Press, host David Gregory held a discussion b...

ABC News - By John Hendren - Mar. 08 (News Report) - Republican senators urged the White House on Sunday to let some of the nation's biggest banks go under. Republican senators urged the White House on Sunday to let some of the nation's biggest banks go under. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) agreed in an i...

Related articles from Say Anything.

By Johanna Neuman John McCain blasts Obama White House for spending bill earmarks, including $8.5 million for Rahm Emanuel's Chicago constituents. But Sen John McCain (R-Ariz.), Obama's rival in the presidential race, was having none of it. Yesterday on the Senate floor he blasted the Obama White House for...

By Anthony Fabiano Yesterday, Mr. Obama had this exchange with former rival, Sen. John McCain: Said the president’s former Republican rival [John McCain], “Well, thank you, Mr. President. And thank you for doing this…Just one area that I wanted to mention that I think consumed a lot of our conversation on proc...

By Howard Kurtz Vicki Iseman, the Washington lobbyist who sued the New York Times over an article about her relationship with Arizona Sen. John McCain, settled yesterday in exchange for a note to readers posted on the paper's Web site.

By Johanna Neuman But whatever the motive, Florida's popular Republican Gov. Charlie Crist -- once on the short list to be Sen. John McCain's vice presidential running mate -- today embraced President Obama's megabillion-dollar stimulus package.

By Adam Graham WASHINGTON — Sen. John Cornyn is seizing the unaccustomed role of partisan attack dog, trying to slow down the early momentum of President Barack Obama to bolster Republicans’ recovery efforts in Senate races in 2010. He has pointedly challenged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev....

By Andrew Malcolm He referred to Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, ex-attack pilot and former POW, who spent nearly three times as long in a Vietnamese prison cell as the Democratic winner spent on the presidential campaign trail. Photo credit: Charles Dharapak / Associated Press

By Adam Graham Huckabee went on to list Mormon politicians that he likes and admires. Current GOP Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. “would make an outstanding president” of the United States, he said. (Huntsman backed GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in the Republican primaries.)

By Andrew Malcolm The Barack Obama for president campaign has kicked off its campaign plane three newspaper reporters. It's probably just a simple coincidence that all three newspapers recently endorsed Obama's Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, for the White House job.

By Andrew Malcolm Looking back on the Republicans' unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign with Arizona Sen. John McCain at the top of the ticket, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin now says her role as the VP nominee was "99.9% amazing and invigorating and inspiring."

By DemFromCT Sen. Joseph Lieberman appears to be paying a high price for his embrace of Sen. John McCain in the presidential race. This is the highest disapproval rating in any Quinnipiac University poll in any state for a sitting U.S. Senator - except for New Jersey's Robert Torricelli, just before he resi...

By Andrew Malcolm On David Letterman's show the GOP senator comments on the accused Democratic governor, his pal, Hillary Clinton and Obama. Republican Sen. John McCain knows Rod Blagojevich, the legally-challenged Democratic governor of Illinois.

By Sara K. Smith The first win came in Georgia, where Sen. Saxby Chambliss crushed his Democratic opponent by 15 points in a run-off election on Dec. 2. The other wins came in Louisiana congressional races on Saturday. One was in a Republican-leaning district in the state’s northwest corner. Democrats outsp...

By Matt Sandwich(noreply@blogger.com) But do Republican opinion-makers understand this? Watching the bloggers at the National Review's "The Corner" during Wednesday's Republican debate, you couldn't ignore the feeling that the right-wing elite simply don't understand the mess they're in, or why Sen. John McCain has bee...

By Jacob S. Lybbert Against the odds, GOP candidates in the state of Tennessee experienced a historic win. In addition to delivering the state to John McCain, Republicans won both chambers of the state legislature. And, as the Wall Street Journal reported, "Sen. Lamar Alexander became the first Republican t...

By brownsox Palin On Independence: Palin On Herds: On CHAMBLISS: Saxby doesn’t just run with the Washington herd. On McCAIN: John is his own man. He doesn’t run with the Washington herd. Jim Martin for U.S. Senate Orange to Blue ActBlue Page MyBO Phonebanking

By Dave It was Palin's first campaign stop since she and U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) lost the Nov. 4 election to President-elect Barack Obama. The McCain-Palin ticket, however, carried Georgia by about 200,000 votes, and Chambliss brought Palin to the state in a last-minute effort to push conser...

By Andrew Malcolm For the Senate. From Arizona. Photo credit: Associated Press SEN. MCCAIN: I'm a Senator. No problem. Q Senator -- Q Senator -- SEN. MCCAIN: Where have you been, Dan? Q Senator? SEN. MCCAIN: Yeah. Q Senator? Q Senator? SEN. MCCAIN: Yes. SEN. MCCAIN: Yes. Q Thank you very much, Senator.

By Tom Blumer when the credit crisis emerged as the top campaign issue, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) pounced on his opponent with two basic messages. One was to blame the policies of deregulation that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) voted for. And the second was to hug former rivals Bill and Hillary Clinton as hard a...

By info@reason.com (John Berlau) To the extent that Obama's campaign attacked the specific deregulation policies that McCain backed, Obama ended up doing more than just running against McCain and his advisers, such as the much-vilified former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm. Obama was also campaigning against Bill Clinton, Rob...

By brownsox Republicans could gain another House seat in the 111th Congress — thanks to the newly elected Democratic president. Both Peterson and Herseth Sandlin hail from Republican territory. Peterson's district is the most Republican in Minnesota by PVI - even the Sixth District which reelecte...

By Andrew Malcolm But just weeks before the start of the historic Barack Obama administration, the last thing the boss-elect wanted was a public hanging of Connecticut's sort-of Democrat Sen. Joe Lieberman for his outspoken support of the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin the last several...

By kos Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) is batting down the hype that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin heads into 2012 as the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination. Palin energized the Republican base after GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) tapped her as his running mat...

Once campaign rivals, President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain are ready to talk about how they can collaborate on issues facing the United States.

By Mark Silva In Indiana, one of the remarkable battlegrounds where President-elect Barack Obama broadened his party's electoral base - defeating Republican John McCain by a vote of 1,370,189 to 1,343, 603 - Sen. Evan Bayh had once been considered part of a potential winning ticket that might be topp...

By Jason Hancock A new robocall in Iowa and several battleground states from the campaign of Republican presidential nominee John McCain uses a quote from Democrat Barack Obama’s former rival for his party’s nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton. I’m calling for John McCain and the [Republican National Com...

Chicago Tribune - By McCain stops by 'Saturday Night Live' - Nov. 02 (News Report) - Sen. John McCain appeared on "Saturday Night Live" last night, making light of the fact that his campaign has less cash than that of Sen. Barack Obama. Obama bought airtime on seven networks to show his half-hou...

Associated Press - By Kathleen Hennessey - Nov. 01 (News Report) - LAS VEGAS - Republican Sen. John Ensign says Sarah Palin is not experienced enough to be president and John McCain's presidential campaign 'completely mishandled' her early days on the ticket. The Nevada senator made the co...

Wall Street Journal - By Sara Murray, Gerald F. Seib - Oct. 30 (News Analysis) - o Sen. John McCain and his aides actually think they can with this presidential election? John Dickerson of Slate reports that “with only five days left until Election Day, John McCain’s campaign aides seem happi...

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...

Wall Street Journal - By Sara Murray, Gerald F. Seib - Oct. 28 (News Analysis) - National Review’s Rich Lowry offers a conservative’s harsh critique of the man responsible for Sen. John McCain’s “listing” campaign: the candidate himself. “This is the McCain paradox: No other Republican can...

By Frank James by Frank James Sen. John McCain has gone after Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic nominee's use of the words "spread the wealth" when the senator from Illinois explained his tax plan to Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher. I just happened... by Frank James

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 shannanb CNN: Senate Democrats eye 'magic 60′ Sens. Mitch McConnell and Elizabeth Dole are two top Republicans lawmakers who find themselves fighting to hold on to their Senate seats. CNN: Obama says McCain 'finally giving us a little straight talk' Sen. Barack Obama said Sunday that Sen. John McCai...

CNN - By - Oct. 26 (News Report) - With 10 days to go until Election Day, long-brewing tensions between GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and key aides to Sen. John McCain have become so intense they are spilling out in public, sources say. Several McCain advisers have suggested to C...

By shannanb CNN: Enemies won't test me, McCain says Sen. Barack Obama's foreign policy positions could encourage America's enemies to test it during the early days of an Obama administration, Sen. John McCain said Wednesday. CNN: Gov. Sarah Palin, Todd Palin to give depositions Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin...

By Jack Coleman Wow -- McCain said that?  Well, not exactly. It appears Sen. John McCain will take Sen. Barack Obama up on his challenge. In other words, McCain stated the words, "I didn't have the guts," at least according to politicalwire.com -- but McCain was quoting Obama saying this about him, McCain.

Sen. John McCain spoke with radio show host Don Imus this morning. It's a very interesting interview -- particularly when considering Imus supports McCain. It's definitely worth a listen. Previously, I gave instructions for downloading Imus interviews to your iPod.

By realitybasedbob WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. John McCain served on the advisory board to the U.S. chapter of an international group linked to ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America in the 1980s.

By Jim Newell White and black members of the McCain family have met on the plantation several times over the last 15 years, but one invited guest has been conspicuously absent: Sen. John Sidney McCain. Why is John McCain racist against his white relatives?

MSNBC's Alex Witt and CNN's T.J. Holmes each suggested that Sen. Barack Obama is prematurely "measuring the drapes" for the White House. In fact, Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Carter all planned for a White House transition months before the election, and...

No, the election isn’t over, and no, Sen. Barack Obama hasn’t won. Bill Whittle, writing on National Review Online, and amply using football metaphors along the way, wants Republicans to know that: “Now look, I’m I realist: I’d much, much rather have Obama’s numbers than (John) McCain’s. B...

Vicki Iseman, the Washington D.C. telecommunications lobbyist that the New York Times suggested in February had an improper romantic relationship with Republican presidential nominee and Sen. John McCain, has given her first interview to National Journal.

By shannanb CNN: McCain faces uphill climb in campaign's final weeks Sen. John McCain likes to say he enjoys being the underdog. After all, this is the relentless candidate who somehow managed to capture his party's nomination after the political world left him for dead in the summer of 2007. CNN: GOP la...

By Stacey A. Ward, Esq. THINK PROGRESS: For at least the third time, officials take down a "No. 2" leader of al Qaeda in Iraq. WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT: Racist Fox News headline claims that former Secretary of State Colin Powell's "hip-hop dancing" is a hint that he will endorse Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL).

By Igor Yesterday, during an NPR segment about the impact of Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) proposal to allow insurance companies to sell policies across state lines, Michael Cannon of CATO and Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) both repeated the false claim that benefit mandates significantly increase the c...

By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief Christopher Buckley, son of conservative icon and National Review founder William F. Buckley, has left the magazine his father founded following a firestorm after he endorsed Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama instead of Republican Sen. John McCain.

By shannanb CNN: McCain calls Lewis remarks 'outrageous' Sen. John McCain said Monday that Rep. John Lewis' controversial remarks were "so disturbing" that they "stopped me in my tracks." (…)"That's not from some, quote, party official, that's from one of the most respected people in America. It's un...

With John McCain campaigning in the state, Wisconsin Democrats go to bat for their candidate. Governor Jim Doyle addressed a rally of Barack Obama supporters in Waukesha Thursday, after a rally there by McCain and running mate Sarah Palin. Today was the turn of Sen. Herb Kohl, who met with Ob...

By Frank James We've been hearing for days now from Sen. John McCain about the earmark Sen. Barack Obama asked for to replace the failing projector at Chicago's venerable Adler Planetarium. In tonight's debate, Sen. McCain cited a $3M earmark Sen. Obama sought for a projector at a planetarium.

By Pat G. Yesterday, during an interview with NBC’s affiliate in Tampa Bay, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) was asked which economic policies she and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) support that would be “great for the middle class.” The policies that Palin cited included a corporate tax cut and earmark reform, nei...

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 CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart On health care there are two sides, a new Obama ad says. (CNN) – Even as the McCain campaign stepped up attacks on Sen. Barack Obama’s judgment and personal associations, the Obama campaign is keeping its message focused on health care. The campaign’s latest ad, “Coin,” implies that Sen. John...

By shannanb AP: Obama, McCain give measured support for bailout Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain on Sunday gingerly embraced a newly negotiated congressional deal for a $700 billion bailout of the hobbled financial industry. CNN: McCain retracts Palin's Pakistan comments Sen. Jo...

By rsinderbrand Obama kept up the economic attacks on McCain Tuesday. (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama said Tuesday that the country is facing the "most serious financial crisis in generations" and argued that rival Sen. John McCain would only make it worse. "I certainly don't fault Sen. McCain for all of the problem...

By mglucas Washington Times: Records show McCain more bipartisan Sen. John McCain's record of working with Democrats easily outstrips Sen. Barack Obama's efforts with Republicans, according to an analysis by The Washington Times of their legislative records. CNN: Rove: Some McCain ads don't pas...

By The Huffington Post News Editors ABC News' Deputy Political Director Karen Travers points out that despite all the "community organizer"-bashing at this convention, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., seems to like the notion, at least based on this passage: More on John McCain

By The Huffington Post News Team Sen. John McCain will visit Denver on Thursday to do what many politicians have done before him -- ask for money. But the fundraising trip... The Arizona senator and presumptive Republican presidential nominee is a study in contrasts -- often exasperatingly so for political allies and oppon...

By LeisureGuy Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in an interview Wednesday that he was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own. The correct answer is at least four, located in Arizona, California and Virginia, according to his staff. Newsweek estimated this summer that the couple owns at least s...

By mglucas CNN: Presidential vote could help Dems get 'magic' Senate majority As if Sen. Ted Stevens didn't have enough problems, Sen. Barack Obama might add to them. Houston Chronicle: McCain's contributions from energy interests spike John McCain received prolonged applause from the oil execut...

By Ron Chusid While McCain keeps bringing up Paris Hilton, Obama has actually avoided connection to celebrities. Back in December, 2006 Lindsay Lohan appealed to Obama, along with Al Gore and Hillary Clinton, for help in cleaning up her image. Sen. Obama, D-Ill., said he knows the video was meant to be lig...

Bush and McCain Opposed GI Bill, Then Tried to Take Credit. "The Bush administration, and Sen. John McCain for that matter, initially opposed passage of the legislation, which was supported overwhelmingly by both Democrats and Republicans…McCain, campaigning last week, used languag...

By John Amato Rick Warren snagged Obama and McCain to attend a leadership and compassion forum in CA: Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain in August will be on the same stage for the first time in the 2008 presidential campaign. The Rev. Rick Warren has invited them to appear at a lead...

By Flap Regina Stern of Barnegat, N.J., center, holds up a ‘Hillary Clinton for President’ sign with a John McCain sticker attached prior to a town hall meeting with Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Friday, June 13, 2008, in Pemberton, N.J. Stern said she supported Hilla...

By schotline In both ads, Graham also makes his case to South Carolina Republican voters. SEN. MCCAIN SPEAKING. SUPER: Senator John McCain Here’s what Senator John McCain has to say about Lindsey Graham: This is Lindsey Graham. It’s been an honor to serve you in the United States Senate.

In uncritically quoting Sen. John McCain's labeling of Sen. Barack Obama as "the most liberal" senator, the Associated Press and The New York Times both failed to report that, according to the National Journal, whose results McCain was referring to, McCain himself "did not vote frequent...

By Flap Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., boards his chartered plane at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport, Monday, May 19, 2008 In Chicago this morning speaking before the National Restaurant Association Senator John MCCain slammed Senator Barack Oba...

Sen. John McCain, on the last leg of this week's tour of economically struggling regions, was campaigning alongside former rival Mike Huckabee on Friday.

By LJ Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), the Democratic Party’s 2000 vice presidential nominee, is leaving open the possibility of giving a keynote address on behalf of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) at the Republican National Convention in September.

Some slightly disconcerting things you might have learned about Sen. John McCain had you paid attention to his biography tour this week: As a young Navy pilot in Spain, he flew a plane so low "for no good reason" that he knocked out power lines, cutting electricity to a "great many" homes. At E...

Sen. John McCain on Monday kicks off his weeklong bus tour in which he'll try to connect with the American people by telling them his story.

By James Joyner Huckabee’s brand of social conservatism, combined with his strong core support among evangelicals, and a frugal campaign budget, left party rivals scrambling to defend their conservative credentials. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, and former Ma...

Arizona Sen. John McCain piled up wins in the Republican race for the White House Tuesday -- with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee also surging to victories throughout the South just days after ignoring calls to drop out of the race.

By Flap Presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain R-Ariz., speaks at a town hall meeting at the VFW in Laconia, N.H., Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2008. Two new polls show John McCain as the Comeback Kid: Pew Research National GOP poll: McCain - 22% Giuliani - 20% Huckabee - 17% Romney -12% The graph is stark in demonstra...

By James Joyner Hillary Clinton has been amazingly effective in bringing home the pork to New York, Alexander Bolton reports for The Hill. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) has won tens of millions of dollars more in federal earmarks this year than her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, e...

By jen It's fun with poll numbers time! Quinnipiac University released results of a poll that shows Senator Hillary Clinton besting former Mayor Rudy Giuliani 50-42 in New York State. Here are the match-ups Quinnipiac asked about:- Clinton beats Sen. John McCain 55-34 percent

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.