John McCain runs right back into the arms of lobbyists:
A while back the McCain put a new rule in place that no one involved in their campaign could be a federal lobbyist or foreign agent. But CBS has an interview out with McCain campaign manager Rick Davis that appears to say that rule is no longer in effect.
Remember, John McCain campaign made a big production over purging itself of lobbyists by requiring anyone on the campaign to sever ties with lobbying firms or outside political groups. So, I can't decide which quote from the above video is my favorite.
This?
"We don't make it a litmus test for employment at the McCain campaign."
(You know, like a rule requiring them to sever ties with their lobbying firms.)
Or this?
Kouric: So lobbyists equal public servants?
Black: I didn't say that. How do you distinguish between someone who, you know, lobbies on behalf of cancer from someone who lobbies on behalf of an oil interest?
(There are people who lobby on behalf of cancer? No wonder cancer is such a plague -- it has its own lobbyists. And I didn't think you could find someone worse than oil lobbyists!)
Seriously, folks, this is big news. McCain has gone from pro-lobbyist to pretend-to-be-anti-lobbyists back to pro-lobbyist again. His ballyhooed campaign rule has made its way to the shredder. And so has his reputation.
Of course, he's still a mavy-mav maverick!