Comments on: McCain’s lobbyist purge: ‘Everyone gets the joke.’ http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:58:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: joe_sixpack http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4973370 joe_sixpack Thu, 22 May 2008 10:55:30 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4973370 almost as funny has counting all the votes american's cast... ah ha ha... you have no authority to make comments about ethics or morals when the millions of votes cast by americans are being ignored to further your own goals. which by the way is far more evil than having a lobbyist on one's campaign. almost as funny has counting all the votes american’s cast…

ah ha ha…

you have no authority to make comments about ethics or morals when the millions of votes cast by americans are being ignored to further your own goals.

which by the way is far more evil than having a lobbyist on one’s campaign.

]]> By: wooriginal http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4973142 wooriginal Thu, 22 May 2008 01:16:27 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4973142 The more light shed on McCain the better... In the meantime, we need to make sure all Democrats support the Democratic nominee. PLEDGE your support at www.norift.com - if you like what you see, DIGG it! Thanks ya'll The more light shed on McCain the better…

In the meantime, we need to make sure all Democrats support the Democratic nominee. PLEDGE your support at http://www.norift.com – if you like what you see, DIGG it!

Thanks ya’ll

]]> By: shoeless http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4972554 shoeless Wed, 21 May 2008 20:08:55 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4972554 That's the oldest joke in the Republican party. They have been making the American people the butt of that joke since the Ulysses Grant administration. That’s the oldest joke in the Republican party. They have been making the American people the butt of that joke since the Ulysses Grant administration.

]]> By: chris_hates_freedom http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4972428 chris_hates_freedom Wed, 21 May 2008 19:15:18 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4972428 If you are telling me that McCain would try to campaign on an Image that is the exact, polar opposite of how he truly is, I just don't know if I can believe you anymore. Next you'll tell me that he's against Veteran's educational benefits, or something. If you are telling me that McCain would try to campaign on an Image that is the exact, polar opposite of how he truly is, I just don’t know if I can believe you anymore. Next you’ll tell me that he’s against Veteran’s educational benefits, or something.

]]> By: Doc Rock http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4972264 Doc Rock Wed, 21 May 2008 18:36:04 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4972264 A conference call by the McCampaign to kiss the milk stools of a bunch of nervous milkmaids waiting to grab a teat on the giant cash cow? A conference call by the McCampaign to kiss the milk stools of a bunch of nervous milkmaids waiting to grab a teat on the giant cash cow?

]]> By: Leftside Annie http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4972246 Leftside Annie Wed, 21 May 2008 18:32:52 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4972246 Har-har-har. So GD freaking funny I forgot to laugh. Especially since their effing laughs are at MY expense. And yours. Har-har-har. So GD freaking funny I forgot to laugh.

Especially since their effing laughs are at MY expense. And yours.

]]> By: Buckie Boy http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4972228 Buckie Boy Wed, 21 May 2008 18:24:10 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4972228 Grampy McSame says - My friends back in the day we all had lobbyists, we kept them in the kitchen in cans, that kept them fresh, why I remember one time I opened a can of lobbyist and it had gone bad, stank to high heaven, nothing like the smell of rotten lobbyist, at my BBQ's I serve lobbyists all the time, why congress critters would stand in line for hours for some fresh lobbyist...I think I sat in an warm apple pie again. Grampy, if you are serving lobbyist you should run out sooner or later, but then they do breed like rats (no wonder, rats = lobbyist) Grampy McSame says – My friends back in the day we all had lobbyists, we kept them in the kitchen in cans, that kept them fresh, why I remember one time I opened a can of lobbyist and it had gone bad, stank to high heaven, nothing like the smell of rotten lobbyist, at my BBQ’s I serve lobbyists all the time, why congress critters would stand in line for hours for some fresh lobbyist…I think I sat in an warm apple pie again.

Grampy, if you are serving lobbyist you should run out sooner or later, but then they do breed like rats (no wonder, rats = lobbyist)

]]> By: BrianFL http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4972186 BrianFL Wed, 21 May 2008 18:08:06 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4972186 Republicans who think this race will be close are fooling themselves. I predict Obama trouncing McCain by about 15% points in the popular vote when all is said and done. McCain is making the same mistake Mitt Romney made; staying connected to Bush and Bush's policies. McCain's only chance was to distance himself from and even criticize Bush. Instead, he got in bed with all the same Bush neo-con clowns. Notice how McCain had a huge drop in the polls coming out today? I think that is in reaction to McCain defending and promoting Bush's failed cowboy diplomacy. There was McSame immediately agreeing with Bush, which just reinforced that a McCain Presidency would be 4 more years of Bush. Republicans who think this race will be close are fooling themselves. I predict Obama trouncing McCain by about 15% points in the popular vote when all is said and done. McCain is making the same mistake Mitt Romney made; staying connected to Bush and Bush’s policies. McCain’s only chance was to distance himself from and even criticize Bush. Instead, he got in bed with all the same Bush neo-con clowns.

Notice how McCain had a huge drop in the polls coming out today? I think that is in reaction to McCain defending and promoting Bush’s failed cowboy diplomacy. There was McSame immediately agreeing with Bush, which just reinforced that a McCain Presidency would be 4 more years of Bush.

]]> By: MapleStreet http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4972128 MapleStreet Wed, 21 May 2008 17:56:10 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4972128 Said one McCain supporter: “I find it a little offensive. It was good enough to get my $2,300 donation. If we’re not good enough, then send my check back. It pisses me off.” TP - Please put the above in gigantic, 600 point bold font. It says that giving a candidate $2,300 is a payment for favors and if the candidate doesn't obey that contract, then the person paying the money is pissed off (dare I say has every right to be pissed off ?). Said one McCain supporter: “I find it a little offensive. It was good enough to get my $2,300 donation. If we’re not good enough, then send my check back. It pisses me off.”

TP – Please put the above in gigantic, 600 point bold font.

It says that giving a candidate $2,300 is a payment for favors and if the candidate doesn’t obey that contract, then the person paying the money is pissed off (dare I say has every right to be pissed off ?).

]]> By: Roket http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4972096 Roket Wed, 21 May 2008 17:51:07 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4972096 Shorter McSame: I fired 5 lobbyists!! (wink, wink, nod, nod) [crosses fingers behind back] Shorter McSame:

I fired 5 lobbyists!! (wink, wink, nod, nod) [crosses fingers behind back]

]]> By: A Patriot Acting http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4971994 A Patriot Acting Wed, 21 May 2008 17:21:00 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4971994 “...this is not an attack on lobbying or any of the people on the campaign,” Um, yes it is. “…this is not an attack on lobbying or any of the people on the campaign,”

Um, yes it is.

]]> By: DieNowForPeace http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4971982 DieNowForPeace Wed, 21 May 2008 17:16:52 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4971982 Everyone gets the joke alright, <em>except</em> McInsane. Everyone gets the joke alright, except McInsane.

]]> By: oldtree http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4971958 oldtree Wed, 21 May 2008 17:08:53 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4971958 We have to fire you now so we can take your bribes again later. Don't you get it? We look like we are corrupt with 3,246 lobbyists on the bus all the time? The "people" that vote will think that we are doing a "good thing" , hah, simpletons all! When we get the election fixed, we can call you back on, and give you cabinet posts and make you ambassadors and get right back to the payola. hold your horses, please, oh.... and your checkbooks We have to fire you now so we can take your bribes again later. Don’t you get it? We look like we are corrupt with 3,246 lobbyists on the bus all the time? The “people” that vote will think that we are doing a “good thing” , hah, simpletons all!
When we get the election fixed, we can call you back on, and give you cabinet posts and make you ambassadors and get right back to the payola.
hold your horses, please, oh…. and your checkbooks

]]> By: DieNowForPeace http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4971952 DieNowForPeace Wed, 21 May 2008 17:04:39 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4971952 <strong>VOTE OBAMA.</strong> VOTE OBAMA.

]]> By: singe_101 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4971950 singe_101 Wed, 21 May 2008 17:04:05 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4971950 It's obvious the best way to serve white, working class voters is to cave to lobbyists and special interests before acknowledging citizens at large. Right? But of course McCain can't just pick one, so he has all kinds of lobbyists. It’s obvious the best way to serve white, working class voters is to cave to lobbyists and special interests before acknowledging citizens at large.

Right?

But of course McCain can’t just pick one, so he has all kinds of lobbyists.

]]> By: singe_101 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4971930 singe_101 Wed, 21 May 2008 16:58:25 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4971930 He'll purge, but I wonder when the binge is. If he got rid of the lobbyists he might as well drop out. He’ll purge, but I wonder when the binge is.

If he got rid of the lobbyists he might as well drop out.

]]> By: JMOHR http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4971920 JMOHR Wed, 21 May 2008 16:54:48 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4971920 But how do we get the Republican rank and file to understand this? We have too often seen McCain portrayed as a latter day saint, a Maverick and a straight talker. The lobbying issue will not be played up by the media. A Democrat would be called a liar, hypocrite and so forth. The real McCain is exposed by the very fact that 115 lobbyists remain on the payroll and that the 3 left only because they were exposed by what little independent media is left. But how do we get the Republican rank and file to understand this? We have too often seen McCain portrayed as a latter day saint, a Maverick and a straight talker. The lobbying issue will not be played up by the media. A Democrat would be called a liar, hypocrite and so forth. The real McCain is exposed by the very fact that 115 lobbyists remain on the payroll and that the 3 left only because they were exposed by what little independent media is left.

]]> By: joe cantwell http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4971914 joe cantwell Wed, 21 May 2008 16:48:58 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4971914 mcbush is trying to have his cake and eat it too. <em>embarrassing, isn't it?</em> mcbush is trying to have his cake and eat it too. embarrassing, isn’t it?

]]> By: Uncle Ho http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-4971906 Uncle Ho Wed, 21 May 2008 16:43:09 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/mccain%e2%80%99s-lobbyist-purge-%e2%80%98everyone-gets-the-joke%e2%80%99/#comment-4971906 well hardy, har, har 5 down, 110 to go well hardy, har, har

5 down, 110 to go

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