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Morning Roundup: Around the Web with Buckets of Nothing
The Latest on Air America — ... Sarah Palin has said so far.... The Washington Times is changing their message every day. Today McCain is an anti-Bush maverick. I wonder ...

Early Morning Swim: Special Curiosity Seekers Edition
Firedoglake — What does Palin's use of the word "if" mean? McSame: the Bush years really sucked, vote Republican. Pot, kettle. As a Catholic let me just say -- more like this. Obama leading in Flohpa. Rudy! returns to the campaign. Massive Kos ...

The Morning Report
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — ... " (Mark Silva, Chicago Tribune ) - A flood of television ads, an unprecedented army of Democratic campaign workers and a souring economy have converged to offer Sen. Barack Obama a chance of winning in the biggest of all battlegrounds: Florida. " McCain lambastes Bush years " (Joseph Curl and Stephen Dinan, Washington Times ) - Sen. John McCain on Wednesday blasted President Bush for building a mountain of debt for future generations, failing to pay for expanding Medicare and abusing executive powers, leveling his strongest criticism to date of an administration whose ...

MCCAIN TO NATION: I AM NOT GEORGE W. BUSH
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... In a WashTimes interview, McCain lashes out at a slew of Bush policies, issues he says he would have handled differently, including on the national debt, Medicare and abusing executive powers. "We just let things get completely out of hand," he said of his own party's rule in the past eight years.       ...

The Straight Talk Returns for a Brief Moment -- "We just let things get completely out of hand."
Fired Up! Missouri — In an interview published today, John McCain has a brief moment of clarity and an effective use of pronouns.  Refering to the Bush Administration record, McCain said "We just let things get completely out of hand."  You're right John, YOU just let things get completely out of hand.  Its about time you got around to admitting it to the undecided voters who have doubts about who to blame for the Bush mess.  Be nice if some Mo. Republicans joined BJ Marsh in a little straight talk about how THEY just let things get ...

Quote Of The Day: McCain’s Last (Anti-Bush) Stand?
The Moderate Voice — ... Be sure not to miss McCain’s exclusive interview with the Washington Times, in which the Arizona senator lashes out at President Bush. “Sen. John McCain on Wednesday blasted President Bush for building a mountain of debt for future generations, failing to pay for expanding Medicare and abusing executive powers, leveling his strongest criticism to date of an administration whose unpopularity may be dragging the Republican Party to the brink of a massive electoral defeat. ‘We just let things get completely out of hand,’ he said of his own party’s rule in the past eight ...

Was John McCain's Biggest Mistake Sarah Palin?
Taylor Marsh — BY TAYLOR MARSH This interview comes way too late for John McCain. But it outlines his biggest mistake in the campaign. Salon outlines the "Seven Biggest Blunders" by the media with "The Cult of Sarah Palin" as number one. I was in Denver when she was picked. The first time I weighed in I called it a "desperation" pick, with the second simply asking: Does John McCain think women are stupid? A reference to Dan Quayle was next. No doubt about it, she’s a disaster for McCain. But the media’s mistake was not ...

GOP Gets Catty
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — I told you it was going to get fun. Here's John McCain, slamming George W. Bush and the Republican Congress in the Washington Times today: "We just let things get completely out of hand," he said of his own party's rule in the past eight years... "Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce ...

Quote of the Day
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — "We just let things get completely out of hand." -- Sen. John McCain, quoted by the Washington Times, on the Republican party's rule over the last eight years.

McCain tags Bush, GOP Congress
Jonathan Martin's Blog — Banner headline in today's Washington Times that may help with Virginia's swing voters while angering some of the president's loyalists: "McCain lambastes the Bush years." Joseph Curl and Stephen Dinan's piece (there is audio, too): "I think, frankly, the problem was, with a Republican Congress, that the president was told by the speaker and majority leaders and others, 'Don't veto these bills, we need this pork, we need this excess spending, we need to grow these bureaucracies.' They all sponsor certain ones. And he didn't do what Ronald Reagan ...

McCain Attacks Bush
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — He sounds like an excerpt from Bartlett's "Impostor" or my "The Conservative Soul:" "Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously," Mr. ...

Around the Web: 2008
The Corner on National Review Online — Thursday, October 23, 2008 [image] Around the Web: 2008 [Katherine Connell] The latest on the candidates . . . McCain Interview on Straight Talk Air The Washington Times [image] Stresses Tax Issue in Try for 1 More N.H. Win The Boston Globe [image] Tries to Push Past Palin Backlash The Washington Post [image] $150,000 Wardrobe for Palin May Alter Tailor-Made Image The New York Times [image] Lambastes Bush Years The Washington Times [image] [image] Obama Chides Biden Over Remark About a World Crisis Testing His Presidency The New York Times ...

Why McCain Shouldn't Be President
Shakesville — According to John McCain: "We just let things get completely out of hand," he said of his own party's rule in the past eight years. …"Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously," Mr. McCain said in an interview with The Washington Times aboard his ...

McCain Disagrees With Palin: VP Is Not ‘Part Of Both Legislative And Executive Branch’
Think Progress — Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) gave an exclusive interview to the Washington Times, in which he stepped up his criticism of President Bush. McCain said he wouldn’t continue Bush’s use of signing statements, and claimed to disagree with Cheney’s view of his role as Vice President: Q: He’s made some expansive claims of executive power and you’ve talked a little about this. What specifically would you roll back of those claims? MCCAIN: I certainly wouldn’t have these signing statements. … I think the signing statements was not a correct, um, implementation of the power of the ...

Desperation Time For McCain
Oliver Willis — John McCain is losing this campaign. I don’t want to hear anybody pretending otherwise. The election is 12 days away and John McCain is behind Barack Obama both nationally and in the swing states. McCain now chooses finally to find something wrong with George W. Bush. The McCain campaign would really like it if we collectively forgot the last 5 years and his tireless advocacy on behalf of President Bush. Too late. McCain is launching a “Joe The Plumber tour”. Seriously. If you’ve followed the campaign or read the Draper piece in the NY Times, you know that this is part of their pattern ...

Not Bush Speaks
N/A — Not Bush on what he would have done differently not counting the 90% of the time he voted with him, ha, ha: “Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously,” Mr. McCain said in an ...

Dissent In The Ranks
Comments from Left Field — An exclusive McCain interview in the Washington Times is most definitely news worthy if for no other reason than because McCain has adopted an almost Democratic tone in speaking of the current President from his own party. In the lone Vice Presidential debate, Palin took Biden and Obama to task for campaigning against the past eight years, going so far as to dropping the Reagan-esque line, “There you go again.”  It is interesting in this context that now McCain himself appears to have made attacking Bush a part of his campaign strategy. In truth, this is probably something McCain should have done months ago.  In ...

Too Little, Too Late?
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Via WaTi: EXCLUSIVE: McCain lambastes Bush years Sen. John McCain on Wednesday blasted President Bush for building a mountain of debt for future generations, failing to pay for expanding Medicare and abusing executive powers, leveling his strongest criticism to date of an administration whose unpopularity may be dragging the Republican Party to the brink of a massive electoral defeat. As I have noted on numerous occasions, this is something that I think that McCain should have been doing all along. The problem now, of course, is whether it will be perceived as authenticity or as just another tactical shift in the ...

McCain Blames Bush For His Campaign's Collapse But Is He Being Honest With Himself?
DownWithTyranny! — Almost daily we're hearing how McCain "blames" Palin for his death march to political oblivion. I doubt it. Blaming Palin means buying in to what every serious McCain detractor from both sides of the aisle has been saying: McCain's poor judgment and cynicism-- for selecting her in the first place-- make him unfit for the presidency. So who does he blame for his sinking poll numbers and what is shaping up to be the biggest disaster for the Republican Party since the last time a senator from Arizona headed the national ticket? Bush, of course, his old nemesis. Yesterday on the Double Talk Express, he granted an interview to a ...

Midday open thread
Daily Kos — ... Me too. We're doomed. MN-Sen: Ha ha ha: "If I lose this seat, and one party has control across the board, then you’ll see changes," [Norm Coleman] said. I'm happy he finally figured out the whole point of this election. Joe Biden: I pay for my suits. I pay for all of my own clothing. How quaint. John McCain on his party the past eight years: We just let things get ...

Thursday evening links
Sister Toldjah — I’ve got lots to catch up on, so I’ll try and condense today’s hot stories in one post. Here goes: —– Local news networks in the Pittsburgh area are reporting on an attack that happened to a woman at an ATM machine in Bloomfield. Allegedly, after her attacker took her money he saw that she had a McCain bumper sticker and proceeded to carve a “B” on the side of her face. The attack happened outside of the range of the hidden camera, and police are still investigating and trying to find out who robbed and allegedly maimed the woman, who is a College Republican volunteer. Let’s ...

Bush pulls McCain in for an endorsement, "SNL"-style
Top of the Ticket — ... . And on Thursday, the same day the sketch was broadcast, the Washington Times -- the conservative-leaning paper in the  nation's capital -- published an interview with McCain in which the GOP standard-bearer "lashed out at a litany of Bush policies and issues that he said he would have handled differently as president." ...

GOP Navigates Deperation Straits
Politics Daily — ... So, John McCain discovered, in the final week of a two-year election process, that George W. Bush has been a terrible president, and described his faults thusly to The Washington Times: ...

A 'common philosophy'
Political Animal — ... in order to talk about how much Obama has in common with the president. A day later, McCain brought up Bush again in order to argue, unpersuasively, that he disagrees with the president about several key issues. McCain talked about Bush ...

Holtz-Eakin Argues Carbon Dioxide Is Not A Pollutant
Think Progress — Yesterday on CBS’s Face the Nation, top McCain economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin insisted that the next president will have to enact “comprehensive policies” to create jobs. After calling for a “real energy policy,” Holtz-Eakin slammed Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) plan to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant: HOLTZ-EAKIN: And so the question will be: who can most quickly generate jobs in this economy, to keep the unemployment rate from spiking so high? At the heart of that, is having comprehensive policies … that have a real energy policy that would allow us to grow. I mean, you know, Senator ...