Senator McCain”s climate record
http://www.loe.org/shows/segme…..egmentID=3

good listen

There is a regional poltical similarity between the areas these two folks call home WY and AZ, with respect to resource extraction, and how that relates to lobbyists and campaigners addressing ways to have the loudest voice in a future Republican administration. I would ask, additionally, whether the neat siege of the FEC induced McCain to milk the lobbyist component of his organization beyond even his originally conceptualized centrality of their input into his party’s design of the autumn 2008 nationwide presidential campaign platform. Maybe the Democratic Party’s nifty permissive early timeline for primaries added to McCain’s inability to respond by proportionalizing the representation of his lobbying advisors in a way that would obscure his true intentions for his after-election plan. His politics seem a cookiecutter Republican recipe for patronage.

In my travels across the web, I came across an article from Sarah Posner at TAP, written on March 12, that puts an interesting light on the Bush/McCain appeasement attack against Obama:

McCain may well get explicit about the NIE soon, but meanwhile he’s busy showing Hagee’s followers that he’s no Neville Chamberlain appeasing this century’s Hitler, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Just like Bush appealed to evangelicals by using coded language (such as referring to the Dred Scott decision as code for his opposition to Roe v. Wade), McCain’s new ad invoking the image of Winston Churchill was undoubtedly a ploy to appeal to Christian Zionists without alienating other voters.

One of Hagee’s favorite motivators for his partisans is to compare them to Churchill (and its detractors to the Nazi appeaser Chamberlain). When likening Ahmadinejad to Hitler, Hagee cautions his followers against acting like an enabling Chamberlain and exhorts them to aspire to be a heroic Churchill. As Hagee told his followers in 2006, just months after launching CUFI, “if you compare world history from 1935 until 1939 we are reliving that era. In that era Hitler pledged to kill the Jews and the people of the free world were trying to come to grips with the rise of Hitler’s dictatorship and the threat to democracy. Only Winston Churchill got it right!”

Like they say, read the whole thing.

call us when mccain DOESN’T have a lobbyist in charge of something

and hey, don’t we all want an environmental policy our rich friends can make money on?