McSame and the Unitary Executive
The always superb Charlie Savage, formerly of the Boston Globe and now at the NYT's, is doing some excellent reporting tonight on McCain's flip-flops.
The evolution of The Maverick from free-thinking republican to Bush sycophant is now complete.
McCain is now buying into the broad expansion of executive powers advocated by the Bush administration that he has previously been critical of.
This should be required reading for TPMer's, as it exposes the achilles heel of The Maverick's campaign.
This is what happens when you sell your soul to run for the White House.
Enjoy!
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It's not like I need more reasons not to vote for the guy. But this is disturbing.
A couple of my (poorly informed) relatives are still buying the "maverick" BS. News items like this will help me disabuse them. Thanks!
June 6, 2008 12:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed! Here's more rebuttal of the whole "maverick" McCain ruse... http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/06/mcsame-and-the-unitary-executi.php
June 6, 2008 12:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oops. Posted wrong link. Here's the link to the NYT article
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/us/politics/06mccain.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
June 6, 2008 12:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
I truly believe that McCain is not flip-flopping. It seems much more as though he is winging it and really hasn't thought through his positions. Even when he has someone put up a position paper for him, he seems unwilling to be bothered enough to read it in detail and adopt it.
In Florida, he said he'd recently seen the movie Recount as the basis for his expertise on the Florida voting issues. Obama, by contrast, is reading "The Post-American World" to form his ideas.
June 6, 2008 8:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Flip flopping is precisely what McCain is doing. It's not that McCain is experiencing a conversion to Bush republicanism, it's that he is realigning himself with Bush to placate the right and compromising his principles in the process. We saw it with immigration reform. We saw it with torture. And now we see it with the theory of the Unitary Executive.
June 6, 2008 9:28 AM | Reply | Permalink