Looks like McCain’s maverick ways are rubbing off on others and causing them to do some crazy things… like, say, break the law.
WaPo:
A Canadian newspaper reported Thursday that Friday’s scheduled $100-a-plate luncheon speech by Sen. John McCain in Ottawa was organized in part by U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins, a former South Carolina lawmaker whom President Bush appointed in 2005.
Democrats pointed out the article late Thursday night, and alleged that Wilkins’s actions could be construed as a violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits many kinds of political activities by government employees.
This ties in nicely with Scott McClellan’s testimony today. The main theme of his book is that this White House operates in a “permanent campaign mode,” where every action they take is politically calculated to help GOP electoral prospects. We saw it with the clueless Lurita Doan and we see it now with David Wilkins: It doesn’t matter if there are laws on the books prohibiting certain conduct; if it helps get Republicans elected, do it. And it appears that if it helps fill McCain’s empty coffers, he doesn’t have much of a problem with it either.
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FYI - The capital of Canada is spelled Ottawa.
The agency responsible for investigating Hatch Act violations (OSC) is in shambles. Therefore, this important story merits a polite “Yawn” because absolutely nothing will come of it.
Color me shocked, a Republican breaking the law…
McCain knows that the FEC is on permanent vacation so the cat is away and John “Mighty Mouse” McCain is playing. This is what happens when criminals like Laurita Dune, and Monica Goodling, and Karl Rove, Josh Bolton, Harriet Miers, Lewis Libby, and Dick Cheney are not punished for crimes when everybody knows that they have committed them.
PS Canadians are excellent spellers.
So what are they going to do about it? Let me guess.
Wonder if the Harper Cabinet’s gonna do anything about it? My guess: they’ll do just as much as the McPapen campaign. The Canadian PM is a Bush Clone.
And I didn’t realize that people would try to half-ass being Niccolo Machiavelli…and then get caught. The Bush Administration is the most incompetent, bungling, idiotic bunch of asshats this country has ever elected. They even beat Harding and Grant!
Obama’s campaign better be SCREAMING about this. Every one of them every time they are on TV should bring this and the other campaign financing law McLawbreaker has broken. What do yoiu think would be happening if Obama did this? Where is Howard Dean on this?
I am very bitter about this.
As for which party is the most corrupt and less faithful to their wives, the repugnants win hands down.
But, Obama still has a funny name.
General_Rennenkampf @ 5:
They don’t care.
Dr. (Hussein) Matt @ 8:
And he has two black children from his relationship with a black woman.
and what part of mcfuckhead is NOT like bush……..
well that would be NONE.
Gee-freakedy-whiz, my home state is batting zero today! First Lindsey (Honey) Graham embarasses himself on national television (for the 3,000th + time), now some ambassador I never heard of embarassing us in Canada of all places?
You`d think that livberal bloggers would be worldly enough n have enough respect for their Northern neighbors to at lease spell Ottawa correctly. Oh yeah, It ìs not American so who gives a f**k!
I find it surprising that McCain is actively seeking funds from people in a foreign country. It is my understanding that it is against the law for non-US citizens to contribute to American campaigns. It seems interesting though that the rate-per-plate fee is just less than the minimum donation at which a campaign has to itemize donations.
I found this article about foreign donors interesting.
Megan McCains blog,
We went overseas today to see our friend Canada. Mom let Dad use the plane if he promised not to try and fly it. Not since his staff gave him that movie Crash for fathers day.
So after I was done in the Blue Jay’s dressing room I met Dad upstairs where He and mom were lighting up Cubans with $100. bills and the ambassador was holding the lighter. The press that traveled with us was nowhere to be seen until flight time when they showed up with a lot of junk food and an elderly lady by the name of Flame that claimed to be an old friend from Florida. She works in the underground ballet industry.
This is awesome back home and no customs.
silentpatriot……you bring up a very important point that i believe some people overlook…….this is the strategy of(NEOCONS) being three steps ahead of the dems./opposing reps….regarding every move, policy/issue/meeting/public appearance everything has been calculated for votes and policy…..it’s a continuum i’ve never seen anything really like it in my life time. every angle and possibility is calculated…and sometimes they surprised law makers by just disregarding the law altogether…..even that is a calculated move cause and effect hypothesis
Captain Obama’s Bitter Half Husein Kangaroo @ 4:
I’ll take a whack at it. Write a letter?
Captain Obama’s Bitter Half Husein Kangaroo @ 9:
Jymn @ 13:
@Jymn:
It wasn’t C&L that misspelled it, it was the Washington Post. Following in the footsteps of the UK media, I see. Next thing you know, there’ll be an article about all the people in the US that believe MLK was a myth. I mean already 1/5 of the country believes in geocentrism…
@Captain Obama’s Bitter Half Hussein Kangaroo:
They may not…but I do. We don’t need a repeat of bad presidencies of the past now. And we’ve been having that for the past 8 years.
I also found it odd that a fundraiser for a US Presidential candidate would be in a foreign country.
Judge @ 19:
So do I. Evidently geography education hasn’t just been bad in the post-60s era.
General_Rennenkampf @ 18:
I care as well but they see “And we’ve been having that for the past 8 years” and that is why they don’t care. I sure hope that Americans wake the fuck up this year.
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Almost Haiku, ain’t it?
Judge @ 19:
He also had a fund raiser in England a couple months ago on his way back from a shopping trip to Iraq.
Notice the illegal fund raiser was not held in the US. Look McCain is losing and with a corrupt White House and paid Law Makers nothing will happen. Americans had no problem knowing Bush/Cheney were cheating and lying to get in office twice. When I visited Ottawa it was interesting to hear questions as to why the American People allowed Bush to steal the White House twice. Canada should follow the rest of the World Leaders and use the US for all it’s worth while idiots are still in office. The Saudis are laughing all the way to the bank. Iran is selling the US oil as the White House propaganda department makes Americans think we don’t do business with Iran. Halliburton’s CEO Dick Cheney has been doing business with Iran since 2000 and still going strong. It’s so easy for the White House to continue to do the crimes as Americans believe what ever the White House says. I love to hear Charlie Gibson defend McCain and attack Obama. He must need that extra money the GOP is giving him.
Captain Obama’s Bitter Half Husein Kangaroo @ 21:
Another four years of George Bush-style governance would put us on the fast-track to a Qing Dynasty-style collapse.
We keep spending like there’s no tomorrow with nonexistent money, we’ll not be the only ones paying for it, 6.6 billion people will pay for it.
Captain Obama’s Bitter Half Husein Kangaroo @ 23:
that’s not chaaaange we can count on………now shit eating grin……..it’s a huge snow job mcBlame
Captain Obama’s Bitter Half Husein Kangaroo @ 23:
Again, geography education must have been just as bad when McPapen was in High School. A pretty damned long ways away from Peoria, the UK is.
P @ 14:
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I was going to say the same thing. Obama’s fundraising capacity really has them in fits, apparently.
Speaking of Canada, in a lengthy newspaper article today, the outgoing CEO of a local health organization wholeheartedly endorses a universal health care system for the U.S.
Captain Obama’s Bitter Half Husein Kangaroo @ 4:
(((((((((((((((((( crickets )))))))))))))))))))))))))
WC @ 28:
That would be good. We have far too many people unable to have access to hospitals, and in a nation of 300+ million people, that’s a very scary thing. Imagine an epidemic like the bird flu sweeping through with that scenario, and you’ll see what I mean.
General_Rennenkampf @ 20:
Perhaps McCain has watched the movie Meet The Robinsons one too many times; in the future, the main character says he’s from Canada, and another character corrects him by saying something like “You mean northern Montana. It hasn’t been called Canada in years.”
The Who comes to mind,”Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss!”
WC @ 31:
Nah, I think he just has the average American’s understanding of Canada: Big National Park north of the border.
Canadians are pretty cool, and a North American state with the Westminister system is always a plus. Considering how our system…works…in Mexico (understandably, our interference is a big reason for its…malfunctions), the presence of two (seemingly) functional states in North America is always good.
MSM is staking out Buddhist monasteries and can’t be bothered with this.
Relevance Rating - 10
Interest Rating - 10
Chance of Seeing It In the MSM - ZERO
Attila the Trollop, King of Beer, Second to None @ 34:
Are those monasteries Theravada or Mahayana? j/k
It’s not incompetence, don’t let the Republicans and their lapdog media convince you of that. The Bush regime has been the most effective right wing government we’ve ever had in terms of implementing their ideological agenda. The problem is that Republicanism looks like incompetence when put into practice. Their goal is to make government so repellent they can convince the public that it doesn’t work. John McCain promises more of the same.
Yes, its spelled “Ottawa”. How would you feel if we spelled your capital “Warshington”!!
Secondly, I’ll lay to dollars to donuts that our Prime Minister was there licking McCain’s boots.
Disgusting…thoroughly and utterly…disgusting!!!
shaddomagg @ 38:
Check out the link to the original article. The Warshington Post misspelled Ottawa as well.
shaddomagg @ 38:
Snowball @ 37:
@ Snowball:
If they convince people it doesn’t work, doesn’t that make them out of a job?
@ Shaddomagg:
Don’t look at me, it’s not my fault our newspapers rival the UK’s in stupidity. The mother country seems just as stupid as we are.
Is McCain holding these fundraisers for Americans abroad?
He held a big money fundraiser in England not too long ago too.
Is there some loophole that foreigners can make political donations to candidates, but only as long as the fundraisers are held on foreign soil that I’ve never heard of before?
How can he raise campaign money in foreign countries and keep getting away with it?
The only way it could be legal is if the donors were American citizens and the article I read about the England fundraiser mentioned English Aristocrats that attended that were British citizens… I just don’t get how this is legal?
MichiganGirl @ 41:
McLawbreaker doesn’t care and neither should you.
Congress will ignore their responsibility and do nothing. Democratic leadership needs to be changed to someone who will abide by the constitution and do oversight.
General_Rennenkampf @ 30:
What was especially delicious about the article is that on the front page the paper also had an article about our U.S. House Rep and his challenger (both Repubs) and how they are both health care industry insiders (incumbent is a health care business owner, challenger is a retired obstetrician/gynecologist) and they both are against a universal H/C plan. It was indeed a rare moment of what I guess the very conservative newspaper would consider a balanced viewpoint.
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WC @ 44: