Born again regulator

By Ron Beasley

As I noted below John McCain has made a major flip flop on government regulation.  After opposing it for his entire life he is suddenly all for it.  Crooks and Liars reports that it is such a major change in just a few days that even GOP friendly ABC had to notice.  Of course I'm sure this new found religion will only last until November.

Comments

[Mark]

Without getting into the whole more v. less regulation debate, it's worth noting that John McCain has never been particularly averse to regulation. This is the man who brought us McCain-Feingold (whether you like it or love it, it was a massive new regulatory scheme), all sorts of ridiculous boxing regulations, and a whole bunch of other stuff:
http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/002727.html

The bottom line is that McCain is totally in favor of regulating that which he doesn't like; when it comes to that which he does like, his preference is either no regulation or more regulation (depending, perhaps, on whether it's good for his buddies).