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03 Jul 22 : 57 | McCain’s Surge Shell Game McCainblogger Mike Goldfarb cleverly defends the idea that John McCain’s former POW status qualifies him to be president by pointing out that Ted Galen Carpenter — who says it doesn’t, necessarily — was wrong about the surge. Here’s what Carpenter said in January 2007: Increasing the... Source : Wonk Room 38 hours ago |
03 Jul 17 : 42 | McCain’s Tax Credit Still Keeps Health Insurance Out Of Reach For... This is part two in a series of blog posts explaining the findings of John McCain’s Radical Prescription for Health Care, a new paper from the Center for American Progress Action Fund. For more, check out part one. John McCain’s health care plan would create a new health insurance tax credit... Source : Wonk Room 43 hours ago |
02 Jul 17 : 44 | NEW STUDY: McCain’s Health Care Plan Raises Taxes On Millions Of... This is part one in a series of blog posts explaining the findings of John McCain’s Radical Prescription for Health Care, a new paper from the Center for American Progress Action Fund. For more, check back here tomorrow and the day after. John McCain has a radical plan to change the way Americans... Source : Wonk Room |
02 Jul 02 : 37 | A McCain Court Would Find McCain Unconstitutional In a speech before the National Sheriffs’ Association today, John McCain tried to pin the Supreme Court’s decision on child rapists to Barack Obama, even though Obama has said he disagreed with the decision. McCain’s argument was essentially that Obama’s ideal Supreme Court justice would... Source : Wonk Room |
01 Jul 17 : 14 | McCain In 2003 — ‘I Absolutely Don’t Believe’ Military Service... This Sunday, on CBS’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer commented that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) may not have the experiences to be president because he has not “ridden in a fighter plane and gotten shot down.” Gen. Wesley Clark responded by reiterating his respect for McCain’s military... Source : Wonk Room |
30 Jun 22 : 24 | On Taxes, McCain Was A Solid Conservative First Our guest bloggers are James Kvaal and Robert Gordon, senior fellows at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. John McCain is campaigning for president on a platform of budget-busting tax cuts for the rich. In fact, he would cut taxes for the top 1 percent of taxpayers by nearly $150 billion... Source : Wonk Room |
30 Jun 21 : 20 | McCain’s Health Care Plan Would ‘Undermine Preventive Services’ Today, the Center for American Progress Action Fund hosted ‘McCain University,’ an all-day symposium on Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) policy proposals. At a panel discussion about McCain’s health care reform, Karen Davenport, Director of Health Policy at the Center for American Progress Action... Source : Wonk Room |
30 Jun 20 : 23 | The Iran ‘Appeaser’ On McCain’s National Security Team Our guest blogger is Brian Katulis, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Just a few weeks ago, Senator John McCain endorsed President George W. Bush’s criticism that diplomatic engagement with Iran would be appeasement. Now it seems McCain has open the door to his war... Source : Wonk Room |
29 Jun 20 : 05 | FLASHBACK: McCain In 1999 — ‘I Would Not Support Repeal Of Roe V.... Today, CNN’s Late Edition re-broadcasted an August 22, 1999 interview with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), in which McCain expressed support for overturning Roe v. Wade, while also noting that the action “would condemn young women to dangerous and illegal operations”: Ultimately, I would like to see... Source : Wonk Room |
28 Jun 19 : 08 | Nancy Pfotenhauer, McCain’s Dirty Energy Spokeswoman On “Fox and Friends” yesterday, Nancy Mitchell Pfotenhauer — a top policy adviser for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — derided those who say that lifting the offshore drilling moratorium won’t affect gas prices, saying it “reveals ignorance on the futures markets.” That position puts her at... Source : Wonk Room |
27 Jun 23 : 20 | John McCain: Corporations First McCain’s new ad touting his deeply flawed energy strategy contains (yet another) new campaign slogan as well: “Country First.” Watch the ad: Unfortunately for our country, however, John McCain’s economic plan puts corporations first. The central plank of his economic plan is a deeply $175... Source : Wonk Room |
26 Jun 19 : 44 | McCain Would Give America’s 200 Largest Corporations $45 Billion In Tax... If you’re a CEO of one of America’s largest corporations and have enjoyed the Presidency of George W. Bush, a contribution to the McCain campaign is looking like a pretty good investment. A new report from the Center For American Progress Action Fund finds that a key piece of John McCain’s tax... Source : Wonk Room |
25 Jun 23 : 32 | ‘Honest’ McCain To Iowans: Guess What, I Lied About Subsidies Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) unveiled the marketing slogan for his incoherent energy policy — the “Lexington Project.” Seven months ago, he promised he would unveil an energy strategy that “won’t be another grab bag of handouts to this or that industry and a full employment act for... Source : Wonk Room |
25 Jun 18 : 41 | McCain’s High-Risk Pools — A Gift To The Insurance Industry Yesterday, during Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) “tele-townhall meeting,” Debbie, a woman who was laid off her job and subsequently denied health insurance in the individual market because she was taking “blood pressure medication,” asked McCain if his health reform plan would “reform the... Source : Wonk Room |
25 Jun 15 : 00 | Rep. Burgess: McCain’s Plan Would Insure More Americans Than Obama’s Yesterday, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX), the architect of Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) health care plan, falsely claimed that McCain’s health reforms would come closer to insuring every American “than will Senator Obama’s.” Watch It: As he has in the past, Burgess completely... Source : Wonk Room |
25 Jun 00 : 44 | Would McCain Really Benefit From A Terrorist Attack? McCain strategist Charlie Black recently made the mistake of saying what was on his mind, suggesting that another terrorist attack on U.S. soil “Certainly…would be a big advantage to him [McCain].” The elite commentariat have coalesced around the idea that this represents a gaffe in the... Source : Wonk Room |
24 Jun 22 : 52 | Nagourney: McCain’s Health Care Proposal ‘Is In Many Ways Similar To... During an appearance on MSNBC today, veteran New York Times reporter Adam Nagourney suggested that Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) health care proposal represented an extension of President Bush’s failed health-care reforms: I think politically the issue that John McCain has to be careful about is... Source : Wonk Room |
24 Jun 19 : 49 | A McCain Supreme Court: Seven Ways It Could Change America The Supreme Court buzz these days is all about the Court’s new “era of good feelings.” That’s dubious, because the central reality remains the same: the Court is deeply divided on fundamental questions about how we lead our lives and govern our country. In even one term as President,... Source : Wonk Room |
24 Jun 18 : 47 | McCain Claims Offshore Drilling Provides ‘Psychological’ Benefits At a townhall event in Fresno, CA, yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) reiterated his call for a gas tax holiday “to give you a little relief for the summer.” As NBC reports, he then promoted his support for lifting the offshore drilling moratorium, admitting that it wouldn’t provide any... Source : Wonk Room |
23 Jun 22 : 00 | Questions Raised About McCain’s New Energy Proposals Our guest blogger is Adam Jentleson, the Communications and Outreach Director for the Hyde Park Project at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. John McCain’s record and past proposals raise serious questions about two new energy policies he rolled out today. The first is the latest in... Source : Wonk Room |
23 Jun 18 : 51 | Holtz-Eakin: Tax Cuts For The Rich Are ‘Not Anywhere’ In McCain’s... Yesterday, on CNN Late Edition, McCain Senior Economic Adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin claimed that John McCain’s tax plan didn’t include tax cuts for the rich: BLITZER: But is this true, the suggestion that [Barack Obama] saying you want to give a huge tax break to those Americans making $2.8... Source : Wonk Room |
21 Jun 01 : 30 | FLASHBACK: McCain Economic Adviser Carly Fiorina: ‘There Is No Job That... Today, John McCain is in Ottowa, Canada, speaking to the Ottowa economic club to affirm his support for free trade and reassure them that his economic plan would be good for Canada. But McCain neglected to mention that he opposes a key way to encourage investment (and, therefore, jobs) in the... Source : Wonk Room |
20 Jun 19 : 42 | Can McCain Find A Single Economist To Back His Claim That Offshore Drilling... Our guest blogger is Adam Jentleson, the Communications and Outreach Director for the Hyde Park Project at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The government’s official source for energy statistics says that offshore drilling will not have a “significant impact” on gas prices until... Source : Wonk Room |
20 Jun 00 : 16 | McCain’s One Note Campaign Today, Team McCain continued to try to make an issue out of Barack Obama’s wild suggestion that America can fight terrorism without discarding the U.S. Constitution. It’s now exceedingly clear that, whatever else candidate McCain has going on, every day is a national security day. Exhibiting the... Source : Wonk Room |
19 Jun 18 : 51 | McCain Falsely Claims Katrina And Rita Did Not Cause Significant Oil... Speaking before Houston oilmen yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) declared his support for lifting the 25-year federal moratorium on offshore drilling. He justified this reversal of his longstanding opposition by explaining that it’s now “safe”: As for offshore drilling, it’s safe enough... Source : Wonk Room |
19 Jun 17 : 01 | McCain Doesn’t Understand McCain’s Position on Guantanamo Our guest blogger is Ken Gude, Associate Director of the International Rights and Responsibility Program at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Last week’s Supreme Court ruling affirming the Guantanamo detainees’ constitutional right to habeas corpus further narrowed the legal... Source : Wonk Room |
18 Jun 20 : 09 | McCain’s Endless War Mindset This morning’s Washington Post helpfully corrects the record on one of Team McCain’s more bizarre assertions from yesterday’s conference call. McCain adviser John Lehman had claimed that dealing with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing conspirators through the American legal system was “a... Source : Wonk Room |
18 Jun 16 : 01 | McCain Panders To Big Oil, Calls For Drilling Subsidies Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has made his principled opposition to earmarks, pork, and federal subsidies well known. Based on those principles, he has: – Opposed subsidies for alternative fuels like ethanol. – Blocked tax incentives for renewable energy and energy efficiency. – Opposed legislation... Source : Wonk Room |
18 Jun 01 : 40 | McCain Hates Condoms Since an “accidental rewording” in the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005 removed a provision which allowed family-planning clinics “to purchase contraceptives at deeply discounted rates,” college students and other low-income Americans have faced steep increases in birth control prices.... Source : Wonk Room |
17 Jun 18 : 19 | Five Years Ago, McCain ‘Stood Up To The President,’ But Today He... On the stump, Sen. McCain (R-AZ) makes great hay of his support for global warming legislation. And his willingness to take photo-ops in the Everglades and stand in front of green backdrops has convinced some in the political press that McCain is a dyed-in-the-wool environmentalist. At the New York... Source : Wonk Room |
16 Jun 21 : 06 | McCain Campaign Website Highlights His Judgment On Iraq… Only Since... Promoting the surge-rific leadership of John McCain, senior McCain adviser Steve Schmidt told the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes that “Iraq is a character issue“: “Senator McCain’s prescription to correct a failed policy was right. Senator Obama’s was wrong,” Schmidt continues.... Source : Wonk Room |
13 Jun 16 : 35 | McCain To Economists: I Can’t Hear You! Campaigning yesterday in New Hampshire, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) renewed his call for a gas tax “holiday” and angrily attacked critics who have pointed out it’s a bad policy: If you want to call it a gimmick, fine. You know the economists? They’re the same ones that didn’t predict this... Source : Wonk Room |
13 Jun 01 : 00 | Media Throws A Block For McCain’s ‘Not Too Important’ Gaffe As I wrote yesterday, I think the anger among McCain supporters over McCain’s “it’s not too important when the troops come home” gaffe is less about McCain’s statement being taken out of context, and more about people no longer interpreting McCain’s incoherent answers in the most... Source : Wonk Room |
12 Jun 20 : 16 | Exclusive: McCain Gaffe On Status of Forces Agreement Raises More Questions... Our guest blogger is Adam Jentleson, the Communications and Outreach Director for the Hyde Park Project at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. In all the hubbub over his comments that withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq was “not important,” McCain still hasn’t taken a clear position on... Source : Wonk Room |
12 Jun 04 : 00 | McCain On Track To Repeat Bush’s Dismal Record On Job Creation Paul Krugman’s most recent blog post has a great chart highlighting Bush’s dismal record of job creation, comparing it to job creation during the Clinton administration: This chart alone is striking. Job growth under Bush was abysmal, when compared to the eight previous years of steady increase.... Source : Wonk Room |
11 Jun 19 : 50 | Rep. Burgess Is Wrong: McCain’s Health Care Plan Would Undermine Existing... Yesterday, speaking at the Heritage Foundation, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX), who helped craft Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) health care plan, suggested that McCain’s reforms would not push Americans to abandon their current insurance plans. TechRepublican wrote about the event: He [Burgess] noted... Source : Wonk Room |
10 Jun 16 : 36 | McCain Flip-Flops On The Estate Tax Our guest bloggers are Center for American Progress Action Fund fellows Robert Gordon and James Kvaal. Sen. John McCain, in September 2005: I follow the course of a great Republican, Teddy Roosevelt, who talked about the malefactors of great wealth and gave us the estate tax. I oppose the rich... Source : Wonk Room |
10 Jun 02 : 10 | Industry Rebuffs McCain: Proposes Regional Purchasing Pools, Not Individual... The Wonk Room has previously written that Sen. McCain’s plan to have families purchase health insurance on their own in the individual market will leave us without protection from the power of large health insurance companies. Instead of bringing families together through employers, McCain’s... Source : Wonk Room |
01 Jul 00 : 30 | NYT: Iraq War Allowed Al Qaeda To Regroup In Pakistan This New York Times article’s description of the Bush administration’s confused attempts to deal with the Al Qaeda threat emanating from Pakistan’s tribal areas is yet more evidence against conservatives’ claims that they can more effectively manage anti-terrorism: After the Sept. 11... Source : Wonk Room |
06 Jun 19 : 40 | McCain The War Salesman The Senate intelligence committee’s Phase II report on pre-war intelligence reconfirms what Americans already knew, that President Bush intentionally misrepresented intelligence to mislead the country about the severity of the threat represented by Saddam Hussein in order to drum up public support... Source : Wonk Room |
05 Jun 21 : 34 | After Standing Against Everglades Restoration, McCain Visits Park To... Tomorrow, to bolster his environmental credentials, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) will tour and likely marvel at the pristine Florida Everglades. What a difference a year makes: in 2007, McCain displayed far less concern for “one of America’s greatest national treasures.” Bucking environmentalists... Source : Wonk Room |
05 Jun 01 : 25 | McCain’s Insurance Deregulation Scheme Promises A Downward Spiral In... Last night on CNN’s Larry King Live, Jamal Simmons, a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), argued that Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) health care plan would “do for the health care industry what the Republicans did for the credit card industry”: Yes, what’s interesting about this and what... Source : Wonk Room |
04 Jun 18 : 20 | McCain’s Foreign Policy Chief Confused About Iran In a conference call today, John McCain’s foreign policy spokesman Randy Scheunemann accused Barack Obama of “walking back” an earlier offer to meet with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Stating that Obama now says ” he would only meet with appropriate [Iranian] leaders,” Scheunemann... Source : Wonk Room |
24 Jun 15 : 14 | Elizabeth Edwards On The Inequitable Individual Market Our guest blogger is Elizabeth Edwards, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and wife of former Presidential candidate John Edwards. David Lazarus, in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times, brought us a fresh reminder of the challenges posed by preexisting conditions by raising a new one –... Source : Wonk Room |
19 Jun 21 : 15 | Analyzing The Candidates’ Tax Plans Using Two Real Families: The McCains... The Center for American Progress Action Fund released a new report by Michael Ettlinger, Vice President for Economic Policy, showing the stark difference between the tax plans offered by Senators John McCain and Barack Obama using two real families as examples: the McCains and the Obamas. Based on... Source : Wonk Room |
18 Jun 23 : 18 | Your Friends Say A Lot About You McCainblogger Mike Goldfarb’s reference yesterday to Richard Clarke as “the consummate 9/10 Democrat” causes me to ask: Does Goldfarb actually know who Richard Clarke is (other than some guy who once appeared on Bill Maher’s TV show)? Clarke is one of the few government officials to have... Source : Wonk Room |
16 Jun 20 : 33 | High-Risk Pools An Ineffective Way of Covering The ‘Uninsurable’ An editorial in today’s Washington Times suggests that Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) plan to insure Americans who’s can’t obtain coverage from the individual market in high risk pools is the “most effective way to address the safety-net problem of the uninsurable”: The best solution is to... Source : Wonk Room |
11 Jun 02 : 22 | Dear Ms. Fiorina, We Found Those Numbers You Were Looking For Our guest blogger is Adam Jentleson, the Communications and Outreach Director for the Hyde Park Project at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Today on CNN, senior McCain advisor Carly Fiorina was asked to explain why McCain’s answer to these tough economic times is to double Bush’s... Source : Wonk Room |
10 Jun 04 : 03 | I Can Think Of A Reason, Max Boot Responding to David Ignatius’s suggestion that the commander of Iran’s Quds Force hopes that “the next administration will be more favorable to Iran’s interests,” Max Boot auto-writes: There is, of course, no earthly reason why the Quds Force commander could expect that a John McCain... Source : Wonk Room |
04 Jun 22 : 13 | Energy Industry Campaign Cash Fuels Straight Talk Express Our guest blogger is Daniel J. Weiss, a Senior Fellow and the Director of Climate Strategy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Republican Presidential nominee apparent John McCain brags about his leadership on climate change. He even taunted Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton when he... Source : Wonk Room |
