John McCain got really, really, really lucky yesterday...thanks to McClellan...

I am actually quite pissed.

This dippy McClellan story managed to bury the biggest story of the month, and maybe of the whole campaign season. I'm talking about the MSNBC report on McCain's economic advisors being balls-deep in the lobby to get a big French bank properly positioned to profit from the mortgage-forclosure meltdown. Cha-ching, suckers.

One of 'em you've heard of, one of McCain's economy wizards is famous in politics going back many, many years...he's from Texas, his last name begins with 'G,' ends with 'amm,' and you'll go 'rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr' when you figure it out...he was chairman of the Senate Banking Committee in '96, and was personally responsible for stripping away and killing to death the no-offshore-money-laundering-for-terrorists provisions within Clinton's Omnibus anti-terror bill, which hed offered up for passage earlier that year...

...'G' to the 'amm' with 'rrrrrrr' on the side actually called that Clinton bill "totalitarian" at the time, once he'd seen the provisions blocking illicit funds from passing through secretive banks to be used by terrorists against America...even though it didn't have nearly as many teeth as the Patriot Act, the Homeland Security Act, the Military Commissions Act, the NSA civilian spying approvals, or the decision to remove habeas corpus from our system of justice, it was still "totalitarian" according to the G-Man, whose party had majority control in '96, and so he cut it from the text with nary a blink.

That cut-out was G-Money representing Enron's interests, because those Enron boys were using those same banks to launder the money they'd been stealing from stockholders, and they needed G*amm to keep them open, which he did by cutting out Clinton's woulda-been-effective plans to close down that clandestine terrorism money flow...so if you spool it out to the end, Mr. G*amm owns a fair chunk of personal responsibility for 9/11, cuz he made sure the terrorist's money passed unencumbered through the same institutions used by his Enron friends...one of whom was his wife, Wendy, who sat on the board.

Now he helps McCain understand economics and stuff (Gramm/McCain/Bush economic theory, Readers Digest form: 1. open bag, 2. insert tax dollars, 3. close bag, 4. give bag to friends and/or allies, 5. lather rinse repeat until the safe is bone-dry empty), and he also helps a large French bank which wants a piece of the going-bankrupt/pennies-on-the-dollar mortgage crisis action in America.

...hang on...

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...sorry, that was too much...

McCain's main economics guru is, of course, former Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX), and nobody heard his name today, because of Dumb Scotty and his klaxon-howled proclamations about shit everyone already knew.

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p.s. standard operating procedure in the White House since Ike let the TVs in, more often than not, has been to tell the press secretary little to nothing about what's actually happening until after it has already happened...see: Pierre Salinger, JFK's press man, who didn't know diddly about missiles in Cuba or military preparations for war until the day before Jack's big speech on live TV, a blackout that was deliberately done so Salinger didn't have to lie and/or wouildn't fuck up and tip their hand to the Soviets...

...or, for a more recent example, do you think Clinton's press secretary(ies) knew about Monica and the cigar and all that shit *before* his/her deposition transcript got published?...nope, nope nope nope...press secretaries are treated like mushrooms as a matter of course: kept in the dark and fed shit, until the damaging/scary truth either cannot be comtained any longer, or has had its fangs pulled.

Point: Scott McClellan was lucky he even knew where the goddam men's room was in the White House. Two pressers into his tenure and it was obvious he wasn't fit for the slings and arrows involved in that role...and mind you, we're talking about slings and arrows from 2003 to early 2006, seven months before the midterm wipeout came down the pike. He was barely able to withstand those little bitty slings and arrows, mere sticks with blunted points, tepidly tossed his way, sometimes, by a press gaggle only concerned about keeping their seat in the WH press room. Mostly, they were taking dictation.

Except, of course, for the slings and arrows launched by journalist Helen Thomas, all of which were pointed and lethal enough to pierce the hide of God Herself. Helen's dailly fusillade always played merry hell with the equanimity of Scotty Mac, who came from a brilliant bloodline but had apparently been concieved by a weak sperm, or got dropped as a baby, or something.

He spent three years looking like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man at the end of a long, hard bender,and it wouldn't shock me to hear now that he never deliberately, actually lied one single time. Cheney, Rummy, Ashcroft, Card, Perle...you think they'd tell him anything of substance? Bwah. "Say this," they'd instruct while handing him a talking point. Good dog.

Waxman subpoenaed him, and he might even show up (a Bush apostle obeying the rule of law? place yer bets), and he might even testify with honesty and candor.

And if he actually really knows anything besides what we already know today, I will be positively flabbergasted to the point of total paralysis.

And it buried what may have been a lethal anti-McCain report scraped together by Olbermann and one of his producers. It's fucking dynamite stuff, but don't tell anyone, cuz then they might find out the real McCain isn't a fraction of a fraction of the "man" his PR says he is.

Dig it, if you missed it: http://www.truthout.org/article/mccain-economic-policy-shaped-lobbyist

Argh. I can't WAIT for the Democratic dust to settle, so we can focus on this walking, talking manifestation of pure, clear, unadulterated GOP asshattery. He is *not* going to enjoy this coming summer.

Not if I have a say in the matter, anyway.

Hopefully when the "surprise! BushCo LIED!" "revelations" from Puffy start to get tired this story can get some attention....

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This story is big. The affects and effects will begin to show after the circus blows through.

Throughout the coming months more and more stories on corruption will be exposed. Congress will have the opportunity to investigate this and other questionable activities by the administration.

Come January 2009, USA will have a real chance to use these kind of lobbying activities to clean out and clear up Washington D.C.

Oh happy days.

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Let's hope the newly "chastened" media won't give this the Iraq War Run-up Treatment.

The magician will do anything to keep you from watching how he does the trick.

through out the campaign.

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because Olbermann broke it.

I don't include Olbermann in the pool. He's always a reliable source for what is really important, but if you watch MSNBC news coverage throughout the day, you're more apt to get tornado coverage (unless, of course, there's an outbreak of Rev. Wright, at which time they'll switch to that 24/7).

not sure why it's becoming a big deal now, I guess because it made teevee.

and they're all atwitter (is that a word?) over the possibility Obama might visit Iraq and "doesn't that mean McCain is calling the shots?" Yada, yada, yada.

I posted it on DU, and it sank like a stone. There must have been some Hillbama hullabaloo going on, maybe it was when the Reverend Wright brew-haha was hitting the fan.

show...
But what the hell am I thinking here...like the media would ever actually report on relevant and important news.

Their job is to keep the public busy with bread and circuses..

So, who won American Idol and who is the best Dancing Star????????? Oh, and who Survived???
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The presidential election will be a boxing match. Obama has both a left hand (domestic policy) and a right hand (international affairs). He will be able to use both hands quite well. McClellan's book gave Obama an opening to land a solid combination of punches.

according to his own admission.

And, his right hand's reputation far exceeds its actual performance.

including poodles like Tucker Carlson, are attempting to promote the idea that Obama must avoid debating McCain about foreign policy. Baloney. Obama will expose McCain as representing a third term of the Bush-Cheney policies in the Middle East. It is an area where we come out way ahead. The polls clearly show that the American public views the Bush policies in Iraq as dismal failures. Obama can and will connect the dots between the expense of the war, our shattered economy, and how the Cheneyites are making a fortune off the war while others suffer.

is a Swiss one (UBS).

on edit - French bank involved is BNP Paribas.

Scotty's was not within the inner circle. He had credible deniability. I'm sure Rove laughed after he told Scott he wasn't involved in the Plame outing. Scott dutifully went out and said he had talked to Rove and he can say...

The French mortgage issue will not die and go away on it's own so we should all stay tuned.

Gramm coming out of his seclusion is real cause for alarm.

that the Gramm-McCain lobbying issue won't go away.

I thought it was a Swiss bank (UBS) and not French? Or, did I miss another piece of the story?

His book will help turn the screws on McCain. Though his book isn't all that revealing and is much more about a CYA attempt on McClellan's part, it opens up a can of worms the Republicans and the media don't want opened.

Once the American people learn enough about McCain he won't stand a chance.

would be president?

That seems crazy even to me.

BUT, this is a damn crazy world.:crazy: :crazy:

Weasles piss outside.

the p.s. section is more fun than the main article. With the exception, of course, of the economics lesson for McCain; clear, concise, brilliant, and as you so aptly noted, sickening. Any chance that when the refocusing occurs it won't be too late for this little specter to raise its ugly head?

reaching into a citizen's pocket, plucking out some money and passing it over to Keating (clearly labelled), then showing it being funneled back to McCain's campaign. Then show the same pattern with this situation.

...but :loveya: :yourock:


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Clarity and humor has always been your trademark. K & R

Lobbyists profiting from brutal Angolan guerrillas, eh.

Lobbyists profiting from Americans' misery...