OK, taxpayers! Let’s hear it for less regulation!

7 comments September 23rd, 2008

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I’m inclined to cut John McCain a little slack on the Keating Five scandal

8 comments September 23rd, 2008

John McCain got himself caught up in the Savings & Loan debacle of the late 1980’s and became known as one of the Keating Five, a reference to five lawmakers who did favors for a corrupt S&L operator.

In light of the current banking scandal, there’s a growing buzz about the Keating Five case. Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter brought it up last night on Keith Olbermann’s program:

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My take on McCain’s role in the Keating Five business is that he screwed up and showed poor judgement.  But his culpability in the case strikes me as relatively minor.

I’m not going to get into all the particulars in my narrative here. Rather, I ask you to read THIS ARTICLE in its entirety and judge for yourself whether McCain acted like a crook. I don’t think so.

A lesson for John McCain on Illinois politics

2 comments September 23rd, 2008

The writing in THIS PIECE is a little awkward, but the points about Illinois politics and Barack Obama are valid.

What would FDR think of the bailout plan?

1 comment September 23rd, 2008

Franklin Roosevelt’s name occasionally comes up in the debate over a proposed bailout of Wall Street.

John Halpin has some INTERESTING THOUGHTS on FDR and the current situation.

A campaign ad appears AFTER it’s been disproved

2 comments September 23rd, 2008

Here’s the ad:

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Here’s the categorical — and prior — refutation: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/22/cnn-calls-out-mccain-lie_n_128475.html

Conservative pundit George Will says McCain sees people who disagree with him as “corrupt”

3 comments September 23rd, 2008

Columnist and commentator George Will  SAYS John McCain is “childish” and is “behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high.”

The argument can be made, Will submits, that “McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency.”