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John McCain and his GOP are unequivocal: They strongly oppose regulation
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
The Republicans put it in McCain's platform, via Ben Smith:Not that anyone pays attention to party platforms, least of all McCain, but a reader spots this rather unambiguous section of the platform just passed by the GOP: We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself.Sometimes the candidate and his surrogates actually preach the language of the platform, like they did on regulation:
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For McCain's Lobbyists-- Bailout... Or Bail?
DownWithTyranny! —
Art by McCain's Lobbyists Over the years I haven't agreed with Newt Gingrich on much but he was correct this morning when he warned Republican members of Congress that the Bush Regime's bailout/corporate giveaway is going to be a dead loser on Election Day Gingrich warned that bipartisan polling shows that Americans do ...
John McCain: The Fundamental Deregulator
Crooks and Liars —
Another devastating ad from Jed over at The Jed Report about John McCain’s crystal-clear track record of favoring less regulation.
“Until he faced a political crisis last week, whenever John McCain talked about regulation, all he wanted was less of it.” ...
McCain, Champion Deregulator (Now in Video)
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
I've been saying for days now that McCain's current pro-regulation posture flies in the face of a career's worth of deregulation-friendly positions and statements. Well, now that argument is being made in video form. Enjoy.
Nancy L. Cohen: How We Got into this Mess: A Brief History of Republican Economics
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
John McCain, the reborn populist, wants to divert your attention from the architects of our economic crisis: the Republican Party and its free market ideologues. It is an unconvincing posture, based on a distorted reading of American history.
Today's financial crisis is the predictable historical outcome of the policies enacted by the Republican Party since Ronald Reagan's presidency. The market fundamentalism dictating Republican policy has become so pervasive that most Americans are unaware of how we got here and how it could have been avoided.
To fully appreciate the role of the Republicans enablers in our current crisis, we have to go ...
