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Sherrod Brown Opens Up the Keating Five Lockbox
Firedoglake —
... Could there be any more appropriate time to talk about the Keating Five? While financial institutions are failing all around us because of lax oversight, can we please talk about John McCain's involvement in seeking regulatory relief for a friend and political contributor, causing the loss of millions by stockholders, depositors, and taxpayers? ...
The Picture McCain Doesn’t Want You to See
Firedoglake —
... Remember this great post bmaz did last week? Remember this really damning picture of McCain celebrating his birthday with Charles Keating, the villain of the last big taxpayer bailout of unrestrained Republican greed? Here's ...
It truly is about the economy, stupid!
The Reaction —
... at this time, according to ProPublica. Democrats have not yet seized on the wrong-doing years ago of Governor Palin's running mate, Senator John McCain. The story is that John McCain Still Living The Keating Five Lush Highlife by bmaz (9/15/08) at Emptywheel. To quote: ...
Just Take Your Meds
Booman Tribune —
... our economy. If that isn't a reason for electing a man with the caliber of John McCain's experience in government as our next President, I don't know what is. Meanwhile, just take your meds like good girls and boys. Especially those ...
McCain’s Cronies: Gambling Grandma’s 401K For Oversight End-Runs
Firedoglake —
... Maybe McCain can fill grandma in on why he and Gramm helped promote offshore accounts for corporate cronies to evade their taxes instead of protecting her investments against unregulated greedy gambles.
Or maybe McCain can just distract them by wearing his Keating junket hat to the next town hall. Party on, Garth...
Charlie Keating Helps Sarah Palin With Couric’s Tough Questions
Firedoglake —
... Charlie Keating keeps crashing his old best friend John McCain's election party. People are starting to get the picture. Today, Keating arrives to help Sarah Palin get the answers she promised to Katie Couric.
When Katie Couric's questions turn you into quivering Jello, you have a problem. Houston, Sarah Palin has a problem. In Wednesday night's CBS interview of Palin, Ms. Couric asked Ms. Palin to explain her claim that McCain was a reformer that championed oversight. After rumblin, bumbin and stumblin through a bunch of gibberish, Couric finally demanded a ...
McCain’s Cronies: Charles Keating And McCain’s Failure To Learn Deregulation Lessons
Firedoglake —
... John McCain's lush life may be coming back to haunt him. But it has nothing to do with Halloween. From the KeatingEconomics website: ...
McCain and Keating Reunited At Last
BAGnewsNotes —
... by Krista Keating, the former wife of Keating only son.
Certainly though, the photo delivers the goods, revealing how McCain enjoyed many free party trips from and with Keating while Mac was a congressman. Although Firedoglake unearthed the article back in September, this is the first I've seen of it -- probably because the media had a hands-off policy toward McCain's Keating connection until Palin-McCain starting trying link Obama to Bill Ayers.
You can read more here, and the PDF of the original Phoenix Gazette article is available here. ...
