You may have heard somewhere that John McCain's health care proposal is crap. Andrew S., one of two new additions to Alterdestiny, has more.The numbers tell the real truth—the amount of the tax credit/rebate is $2,500 per individual and up to $5,000 for families. I...
Straight-Talkin’ Maverick John McCain
A Republican minority in the Senate has thwarted attempts to repair the damage done by a bare majority of the Supreme Court in Ledbetter, which determined that companies should be.
Shorter John McCain:Equal pay is a fantastic idea, so long as it's secured through the intervention of winged ponies or the sowing of magic beans.Future equal rights mavericism will include.
Mr. Richard Cohen, ladies and gentlemen!
Excellent point about the tendency to assume that because lots of people in their respective parties (or ex-parties as the case may be) hate McCain and Lieberman their positions must.
Yglesias:But foreign policy questions are McCain's passion, he's chosen to put them at the center of his campaign, and there's really nothing at all Burkean about McCain's take on them..
This bears emphasis:As usual with McCain’s statements in his alleged area of expertise, the claim [that winners don't offer cease-fires] is factually dubious. More importantly, the implicit analysis here, and in nearly all pro-war thinking is that of a zero-sum game, in which one side’s...
Why I heart Elizabeth Edwards.
Yglesias is right that McCain's reliance on the advice of Phil Gramm shows that the straight-talking maverick just doesn't care about economic policy. The fact that Gramm equipped the Glass-Steagall.
Via Steve Clemons, there's Douglas Bandow's comprehensive review of John McCain's bizarre foreign policy pronouncements. It's a reminder of just how consistently McCain has been ill informed or wrong -- wildly so in many cases -- on the most significant foreign policy questions of the...
Since ignoring the fact that John McCain hasn't released his tax returns while complaining that Hillary Clinton hasn't isn't quite enough, ABC News "chief investigative reporter" Brian Ross decided to.
Since John McCain is clearly unable to comprehend basic facts about a war that he'd just as soon have last a century or longer, Spencer Ackerman kindly helps by reminding.