John McCain lies yet again today, saying in Orlando: “We will stop multimillion dollar payouts to CEOs who have broken the public trust.”
But as Doug Holtz-Eakin has previously admitted by “stop” McCain means “do nothing”
Republican presidential candidate John McCain has spoken out about lavish pay packages for corporate chiefs, but his top adviser said on Monday the senator wants to shine a light on the issue and is not offering specific new proposals to rein it in.
Back two or three months ago when McCain was regularly making statements about his policies that were at odds with the actual content of his policies, it was possible to see that habit as a form of carelessness or confusion, but after the recent turn in his campaign’s tactics and their admission that they see lying to the American people as an effective campaign strategy, it’s hard to see this kind of thing as anything put an extension of the general “let’s lie all the time” approach.
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