It's one-after-another when it comes to John McCain and lobbying scandals. Former Republican Texas Senator Phil Gramm, a national campaign general co-chair for John McCain, was being paid by a Swiss bank, UBS, to lobby Congress on the mortgage crisis in the United States. Forbes says UBS is among the banks worst hit by the global credit crisis.
Ohio State Senator John Boccieri delivered the Democratic radio address this week. Boccieri congratulates Congress for passing the historic 21st Century G.I. Bill ahead of the Memorial Day weekend and points out that McCain did not show up to vote for the bill and support his fellow veterans.
How else can you describe this brilliant "Super Genius Plan to Save the GOP?" GOP Rep. Thaddeus McCotter "called for more out-of-the-box strategies, such as proposing a theme of 'Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco Threat,' sung to the tune of the Rice-a-Roni jingle."
Thomas Loeffler, a former Republican congressman from Texas, resigned as National Finance Co-Chair and joins four other recently departed high-level staffers for John McCain's campaign, including McCain's hand-picked convention coordinator, Doug Goodyear, who lobbied on behalf of Burma's repressive military junta.
Rep. Becerra recognizes the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Israel, and Democratic efforts to offer the brave men and women of the U.S. military with expanded educational opportunities in the 21st century G.I. Bill that John McCain opposes.
How many lobbyists does John McCain have running his campaign -- even at the very highest levels? So many that he lost count and are asking their staffers to fill out questionnaires about their clients so as not to repeat the media black eyes of late.
In the latest ABC News/Washington Post opinion poll, 82 percent of Americans say the country is on the wrong track as President Bush hit an all-time low in the poll. The poll findings are bad news for the McCain campaign, which is running on a simple platform of four more years of failed Bush policies.
Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan delivers this week's Democratic Radio Address and discusses the Democratic energy package that repeals billions of dollars in tax breaks for Big Oil, forces them to invest in renewable energy or pay a price for refusing to do so and protects consumers.
The Arizona Republic declared that in tight votes, John McCain is "not a 'maverick.'" An examination of the presumptive GOP nominee's voting record in the Senate since 1999 found that "when it matters most, he seldom bucks the party." John McCain: The Bush president Bush Republicans have been waiting for.
Columnist Andrés Oppenheimer ripped John McCain over his embrace of the right-wing on immigration in Sunday's Miami Herald. Oppenheimer, an award-winning journalist, writes that following an interview with the presumptive GOP nominee that McCain is "moving steadily backward" on immigration.
Congressman André Carson delivers this week's Democratic Radio Address and speaks about the fifth anniversary of President Bush's declaration that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended" under a "Mission Accomplished" banner.
Democrats have turned out in record numbers across the country and voter registration figures are through the roof. Democrats increased their numbers in the past seven primary states by 1 million voters while Republican voter registration figures "mainly ebbed or stagnated," reports the Washington Post.
Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey delivers this week's Democratic Radio Address. Senator Lautenberg addresses high gas prices and Democratic efforts to move us towards alternative energies and reduce our dependency on foreign oil.
John McCain likes to talk tough about earmarks and the federal budget, but when pressed on specifics, there's no substance. On Sunday, McCain tried using the discredited claim that he would cut spending by eliminating $65 billion in earmarks, and got called out on it.
Governor Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, delivers this week's Democratic Radio Address. Governor Dean addresses the concerns of working Americans over jobs, gas prices, and health care, and how John McCain cannot solve any of them.
Despite the evidence to the contrary, John McCain toed the George Bush line on the economy with a rosy outlook for the future. John McCain's self-professed lack of economic understanding prove to be disastrous for the country.
With General Petreaus testifying before Congress, Senator McCain once again got basic facts wrong about the situation on the ground in Iraq. During his questioning, he referred to al Qaeda as an "an obscure sect of the Shi'ites." This has become a rather frequent problem for the GOP nominee.
Lobbyist Doug Davenport is joining the McCain campaign as one of the ten, decentralized, regional campaign managers. Davenport is one of the founders and current chief lobbyist for the DCI Group. Lobbyist staffers: cheaper by the dozen.
Ahead of John McCain's appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman tonight, the Democratic Party unveiled three special installments of "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches." Together they show McCain's efforts to cozy up to President Bush.
The Democratic Party announced today that Senator John McCain will appear in a series of debates against himself. As the two McCains square off, the American people will have the opportunity to hear the old McCain and the new McCain for themselves.
Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey delivers this week's Democratic Radio Address and addresses the Iraq War, now in its sixth year.
John McCain has tried to rewrite history, pretending he didn't march in lockstep with President Bush every step of the way on Iraq, from echoing the Bush Administration's false and misleading case for war to parroting their rosy rhetoric. As our latest video shows, McCain has been Bush's most loyal foot soldier from day one.
I wrote about this yesterday, but now ABC News has posted a copy of the Pentagon report that the Bush administration reportedly tried to keep secret, throwing up as many barriers to access as possible.
Yesterday Republicans blocked the economic stimulus package in the Senate, which would have extended unemployment benefits and sends helped out wounded and disabled veterans. It also would have helped 21.5 million senior citizens get stimulus checks.
Are you in a Super Tuesday state? Don't know where your polling location is? What times do the caucus doors close? Do the polls close at 7pm or 8pm? Find out here! Then, make your voice heard!
Shortly after signing the defense authorization, President Bush issued signing statements on four provisions, including measures on oversight of private contractors and permanent bases in Iraq.
Last night's State of the Union Address is a glimpse of what's to come if Republicans maintain their hold on the White House. Pledge to unite together as a party and support our nominee, whoever that may be, as we continue to work around the clock, fighting Republicans in all 50 states.
Mark a square on your Bingo card every time President Bush says one of 25 key words. When you have marked 5 squares in a row (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally), you score Bingo! Play online or at home with friends!
Democrats turned out in record numbers in the South Carolina Democratic Primary. See how the Democratic candidates fared in the First-in-the-South primary.
Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota delivers this week's Democratic Radio Address. The Senate will soon take up a plan to strengthen an economy weakened by seven years of misguided fiscal policies and record deficits.
Expanding the children's health bill, which Republicans in Congress just blocked once again, has tremendous support from the American people. But where do the Republican presidential candidates stand on making sure more children have health care?
Democrats turned out in record numbers to caucus in the first Western state of this primary season on Saturday, putting the spotlight on Nevada. See how the Democratic candidates fared in the desert.
Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, discusses the economy and the need for immediate action in this week's Democratic Radio Address.
Pledge to unite together as a party and support our nominee, whoever that may be, as we continue to work around the clock, fighting Republicans in all 50 states.
Democrats are willing to work with the President to design a responsible strategy for stimulating our economy and reversing current policies that have us headed for recession.
Governor Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, delivered the Democratic radio address this week. Dean cites the massive turnout of 230,000 Democratic caucus voters in Iowa as evidence of a strong party.
Yesterday the American people took their first, long-awaited step toward electing a new President. Whoever wins the Republican nomination, it's become crystal clear a vote for any one of them is a vote for a third Bush term.
Hold the GOP accountable for everything they say on the campaign trail. We've got video straight from the field. Catch the flip-flops, exaggerations, and falsehoods and send them our way -- or download and mix them into a video of your own.
We put together this resource center to highlight the misguided scapegoating of primarily Hispanic immigrants to further Republican political goals. It's also a history of the Republican Party's failures on immigration.
Bernie Kerik and Rudy Giuliani have been the best of friends. We put together a presentation to shed some light on how we got to where we are today, with Kerik indicted on 16 felony counts.
A controversial Republican effort to change the way California distributes its electoral votes is back--with help from key Giuliani supporters hoping to steal enough votes to win the White House.
Rudy Giuliani knew that New York City firefighters had faulty emergency radios--and he did nothing. A new film shows how more lives could have been saved on 9/11 if Giuliani had acted sooner.
The leading Republican presidential candidates have skipped most debates that address issues important to people of color. We've responded with a new web video on the American Dream.
Graeme Frost delivers this week's Democratic Radio Address. He asks Bush to sign into law the renewal of CHIP that Congress passed this week.
Tonight Tavis Smiley will moderate a Republican presidential debate that will focus on issues important to minority communities. But the four leading candidates will not appear.
The bill, which covers an estimated 10 million children, prevents shortfalls in funding that denies coverage and guarantees dental health and mental health. Will Bush veto coverage of millions of children?
Republicans are sponsoring a ballot initiative in California that would change how the state distributes its electoral votes, hoping to pick up just enough seats to win the White House.
Blackwater USA, a private mercenary firm that operates in Iraq, is being expelled from the country over the deaths of eight civilians. Mitt Romney has hired Blackwater's vice-chairman as one of his policy advisors.
House Minority Leader John Boehner said that the sacrifice of soldiers who have died or been wounded in Iraq will be a "small price" to pay. Join our campaign to denounce Boehner's deplorable remarks.
As the anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Fred Thompson downplayed the importance of catching Osama Bin Laden, who is responsible for the death of thousands of Americans.
The Democratic Party's research team has put together a list of more than 50 recent Republican resignations, pleas, sentences and scandals, with links for your convenience. Enjoy!
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky delivers the Democratic Radio Address. She discusses her recent trip to Iraq and the need for a new direction for the war in Iraq.
Former Senator Max Cleland of Georgia discussed the President's failed strategy in Iraq and how to bring our troops home safely from an open-ended civil war.
Fred Thompson has been raising money for his campaign without disclosing his donors and information about his own personal finances. Now he has been charged with violating federal election law.
Giuliani spent only 29 hours at the site of Ground Zero in the three months after the Sept. 11 attacks--even though he says he was there "as much as, if not more" than recovery workers.
The FEC posted millionaire Mitt Romney's financial disclosure form online. For the first time, we'll be able to see exactly where his $250 million dollar fortune is invested.
If the Ames straw poll in Iowa revealed anything over the weekend, it was the weakness of the Republican field. Even after Mitt Romney spent millions, many voters still shrugged and stayed home.
Mitt Romney, who has loaned his own campaign over $9 million dollars, has been paying voters between $500 and $1000 to "talk him up" in Iowa, rented a fleet of buses, and bought $2 million in ads.
Rudy Giuliani says he has the power to arrest U.S. citizens on U.S. soil and hold them without court review, and Mitt Romney wants to double the size of the the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
Democrats passed legislation that will increase the use of renewable resources like wind and solar, create jobs, invest in biofuels--and pay for it by repealing $16 billion in tax breaks for oil and gas companies.
Paula Hall delivered this weeks Democratic Radio Address.
In her first Democratic Radio Address as Speaker, she discusses the recent passage of the recommendations of the bipartisan independent 9/11 Commission.
Mitt Romney's endorsement of a Republican fundraiser where donors will be firing Uzis and M-16 rifles: "Let them participate in that and come back with a much bigger appreciation for our military men and women in uniform in harm's way."
The Mitt Romney campaign finally noticed today that the Democratic Party has produced more press releases against him than any other candidate. Well, there's probably a good reason for that.
John McCain's money woes are making headlines, but Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is spending more than it is raising. During the second quarter, he spent $20.5 million and raised just $14 million.
Rudy Giuliani defended himself against criticism for his handling of the aftermath of 9-11, by saying they had a new command center up and running in "half an hour" at Police Academy. But it's not true.
Get ready for the Democratic Party's American Majority Partnership Summit. We're meeting in Las Vegas this year, August 23-25. Hear from candidates, learn about key issues, and more.
Lady Bird Johnson, widow of President Lyndon B. Johnson, passed away yesterday at her home in Texas at the age of 94. She will be remembered as an advocate for the environment, civil rights and Head Start.
Former White House Counsel Harriet Miers said that she will not appear at a hearing tomorrow before the House Judiciary Committee, even though the committee issued her a subpoena.
After John McCain was deserted by three top aides today, he turned to veteran Republican lobbyist Rick Davis. But Davis may be just another reminder of McCain's insider politics.
Fred Thompson, the lobbyist and Republican presidential candidate who campaigns on a pro-life platform, once lobbied to ease restrictions on federal funding for abortion counseling.
Meet Arthur Ravenel. The South Carolina campaign co-chair for Rudy Giuliani called the NAACP the "National Association For Retarded People" and said a committee chairman operated on "black time."
Thompson leaked information to the Nixon administration about the status of the Watergate investigation, tipping off Nixon's lawyer when the committee learned about the White House taping system.
Since the start of the year, Democrats have raised nearly 50 percent more than Republicans in the race for the presidency. Republicans say that their party is just not excited about the 2008 elections.
Tony Snow tried to minimize the importance of Scooter Libby's crimes during a press hearing. His response to the comment that this is a "serious" case was: "In Washington, things get leaked all the time."
John McCain's presidential campaign announced today it will fire 50 staffers or more. This can't be a good sign for the Senator, whose campaign is almost broke and plunging in the polls.
Rudy Giuliani flip-flops again as he strains to explain his support for escalation in Iraq. This time he changes his position on Israel's withdrawal from Gaza. We've got the video.
President Bush says that he won't supply subpoenaed documents related to the Bush administration's illegal domestic spying program. The move displays a complete lack of respect for the rule of law.
Today the Department of Labor will release the results of a study on Family and Medical Leave, which allows workers 12 weeks unpaid leave each year. The public likes the program, but guess who doesn't?
Fred Thompson defends his lobbying work for clients like former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who endorsed the gruesome practice of executing opponents by throwing flaming tires around their necks.
Meet Arthur Ravenel. The South Carolina campaign co-chair for Rudy Giuliani made news for calling the NAACP the "National Association For Retarded People" and saying a committee chairman operated on "black time."
While Rudy Giuliani was assuring New Yorkers that the air quality was safe after 9/11, his health Department said that it was "not yet suitable." Will he accept responsibility for his failures?
McCain was "jetting to 35 fund-raising events in the 30 days of June, hoping to raise more than $100,000 at each from small groups of big donors." Or was he?
In a victory for the American people, the Senate passed important legislation increasing fuel efficiency, creating laws against price gouging, and boosting the use of renewable fuels.
Once again Senate Republicans have put the special interests before the people they are supposed to represent, blocking a measure to provide tax breaks for renewable energy.
The Bush administration has been using RNC email accounts for White House business. Even worse, the RNC has destroyed many of the emails, including all email records for 51 White House officials.
As Fred Thompson starts to campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, his long decades of work as a millionaire K Street lobbyist begin to catch up with him.
Fred Thompson is attempting to portray himself as an outsider, but he was paid $760,000 by London-based Equitas Ltd., which "held billions of dollars to pay off claims from people sickened by asbestos."
President Bush's nominee for Surgeon General manipulated medical studies in a paper he wrote in order to advance his anti-gay agenda. The discovery comes after news reports about his past attempts at "curing" homosexuality.
Yesterday Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff Scooter Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison and a $250,000 fine. Libby was convicted in March of lying and obstructing a leak investigation.
The new chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party says "all we need is some attacks on American soil" for Bush to become popular.
Again with the "French" thing, Mitt Romney? It's starting to get tiresome. But Mon Dieu! Le YouTube has Mitt Parlez Vousing. He can't seem to stay consistent, although his accent is tres bon.
On the O'Reilly Factor, John McCain smiled and nodded as Bill O'Reilly said we need a cap on immigration because the far-left "want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure."
Rudy Giuliani has been accused in the past of endangering the public in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Now there are new questions about his post-9/11 failures.
With McCain officially missing more than half of the votes held in the Senate so far, it's worth noting that abandoning his job to campaign for president is a pattern. Last time he ran, he had the same problem.
Monica Goodling, a graduate of Pat Robertson's Regent University law school, worked at the Justice Department as the White House liaison before quitting in the middle of the scandal around the U.S. Attorney firings.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) got into a heated shouting match with fellow Republican Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) last week, during one of his rare appearances at the Capitol.
With FEMA asking families who currently live in government provided trailers, including Hurricanes Katrina victims, to buy them, House Democrats are pushing to make housing more affordable.
James Comey testified that Alberto Gonzales showed up at the hospital room of then Attorney General John Ashcroft in the middle of the night to demand recertification of the warrantless wiretapping program.
During the years when the Republicans controlled Congress and the White House, our national debt increased by $3 trillion dollars--and counting.
