How often did McCain vote with Cheney when they were in the Senate together?

Posted at September 8, 2008 1:10 PM in response to Obama Campaign: New McCain Ad Is "Lie"

Aaarghhh! Cheney ordered the outing of Plame! That is obvious from the Libby trial and it is a much bigger issue than what he said to McClellan.

Posted at June 9, 2008 8:49 PM in response to McClellan to Testify in Congress

Their neoliberal leader, Phil Gramm, is working as an economic adviser to McCain. I'm sure we'll hear more from him once they've thought of a plausible explanation for why over-regulation caused the mortgage crisis.

Posted at April 1, 2008 11:02 PM in response to What Happened to “Free-Market” Conservatives (or Neo-liberals)?

Their neoliberal leader, Phil Gramm, is working as an economic adviser to McCain. I'm sure we'll hear more from him once they've thought of a plausible explanation for why over-regulation caused the mortgage crisis.

Posted at April 1, 2008 11:00 PM in response to What Happened to “Free-Market” Conservatives (or Neo-liberals)?

Is anyone talking yet about getting rid of the superdelegates by the 2012 primaries? If not, allow me to be the first.

Posted at April 1, 2008 3:12 PM in response to Pelosi: Super-Delegates Can Vote Their Conscience

AdAbsurdum - You're right, and that's why I'm an Obama supporter. I wish more in the media would focus on McCain's record on Afghanistan and Pakistan (which is essentially surrendering them to terrorists).

Steve wrote that Bandow's piece is "one of the best compilations" of arguments against McCain, but the article doesn't have the word Afghanistan in it.

Posted at March 22, 2008 10:26 AM in response to John McCain: An Act of Belligerency?

Whoops, at the risk of being Captain Obvious, I'll point out that not wiping out the al Qaeda and Taliban leadership has predictably allowed them to destabilize Pakistan. That's a much bigger threat to the US and world than Iraq ever posed.

I wasn't complaining that diverting resources away from wiping out al Qaeda's leadership failed to satisfy our desire for justice (although obviously it did fail).

Posted at March 22, 2008 1:11 AM in response to John McCain: An Act of Belligerency?

Bandow's article doesn't mention Afghanistan once. McCain supported diverting nearly all of our resources away from wiping out the al Qaeda leadership. But Dems never mention that, so McCain is still seen as stronger on bin Laden, as reflected by this Fox poll http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Fox_poll_McCain_strongest_against_Bin_0320.html (highlighted by the Center for American Progress, I don't read Fox)

Yes, Americans agree that Iraq was a mistake. We took the wrong hill. We dug in and Bush (and McCain) diverted nearly all of our resources to it. But most voters recognize that we can't just up and leave. Powell's "you break it you own it" is not an apt analogy. We don't own Iraq, we gave most of it to al Qaeda and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and we can't just wish that away.

Posted at March 22, 2008 12:47 AM in response to John McCain: An Act of Belligerency?

It sounds like we might do well with Giuliani checked by a Democratic Congress.

Unless he murders someone between now and November 2008, I'm voting for him ahead of Hillary. Obama might get my vote, but only if he promises not to lose Afghanistan in addition to Iraq. Losing one war is bad enough.

Posted at March 8, 2007 6:14 PM in response to Why Rudy Giuliani Really Shouldn’t be President

Impeaching Cheney would be more productive than trying to impeach Bush on almost every front.

Our troops would benefit from Bush getting better advice from a different VP (look at the benefit of replacing Rumsfeld). And politically, going after Cheney is okay with swing voters but will still satisfy the far left (and the rest of us).

Posted at March 7, 2007 6:20 PM in response to Next Steps in Plamegate