John McCain is up to his neck in the shenanigans behind the Great Financial Crisis of 2008; did you know that he played a role in almost bankrupting Arizona too?

John McCain was never the principled steadfast man his false front public image painted him to be; although it is true that he really has been in a downward spiral of dishonor and deception during this year’s campaign. Even many of his staunchest supporters in major media are starting to realize the brutal truth for what it is. The story of John McCain’s 70th birthday bash in the exotic waters of Montenegro with lobbyists and con men should serve to remind them them the John McCain that was Charlie Keating’s political leverage boy in Congress is the same exact John McCain under the thumb of lobbyists and political influence peddlers today.

Boy, Karl Rove is nothing if not consistent.

George Will, voicing the position of those (like Mitch McConnell) who don’t like getting attacked for things their attacker has done, captures the state of McCain’s attempts to hypocritically avoid the rules he himself wrote.

First, the Times muddied, with unsubstantiated sexual innuendo about a female lobbyist, a story about McCain’s flights on jets owned by corporations with business before the Senate Commerce Committee, and his meeting with a broadcaster (McCain

McCain’s advisors claim you shouldn’t worry that they’re a bunch of lobbyists. But the Bush Administration’s troubles with their lobbyist clients demonstrates how much you should worry.

The trajectory of Vicki Iseman’s career has moved from a focus on media consolidation to a focus on defense and Veterans issues.

When I noted that John McCain’s gal lobbyist friend had represented the two networks that would, in 2004, show the anti-Kerry propaganda piece, Stolen Honor, I admitted I didn’t know precisely whether or how John McCain had helped Iseman’s second

Bud Paxson says McCain’s 2002 deposition–and not his claims yesterday–are the truth.

A number of people have noted that, if all the NYT had was the word of a few ex-staffers, getting a big-time criminal defense lawyer like Bob Bennett to defend McCain was overkill. Isikoff’s latest story begins to explain why Bennett may not have been overkill.

A lot of people are imagining the horror of a Presidency in which all of McCain’s advisors were the lobbyists he now chums around with. No need to imagine though–that possibility is already the reality of the Bush Administration.