Yet More Lobbyist Trouble For McCain

By Cernig

Murray Waas reports that McCain's transition chief used to work closely with lobbyists who were jailed for aiding Saddam Hussain's attempts to get around international sanctions, and that Mccain's handpicked man, another lobbyist by the name of William Timmons, would have benefitted to the tune of millions had one of their deals worked out. (Hat-tip, Nicole Belle.)

I wrote on Saturday that McCain's lobbyists had played him for a patsy at the very least - or maybe it's that Mccain is a total hypocrite when he trumps up his "maverick" label as being somehow opposed to lobbyist influence over lawmakers. But either way, his own stable of lobbyists and their misadventures, into which Mccain has often been dragged, raise huge questions about his judgement and character.

Comments

[Russ Wellen]

This one might be easier for the public to wrap its mind around than that Rick Davis lobbied for Georgia. (Most Americans struggle with the idea that there's another Georgia besides ours and how can it be in the old USSR, it doesn't sound Russian?)