Jane Hamsher

Commenter cinnamonape: : "Lost his bearings?" Now we know why McCain almost flunked out of Annapolis. How can a third-generation Navy man not know that this is a NAVAL TERM that means an individual has lost sight of their navigational standards. It has nothing to do with AGE…Navy men and those that used this slogan were ALWAYS referring to people who had become sidetracked away from their presumed course. Young captains could “lose their bearings” as well as old ones.

Sad that McCain doesn’t even know Naval Terminology!

McCain's lawyer, Trevor Potter, poo-poohs the idea that FEC Chairman David Mason was fired because he was critical of McCain's public finance hypocrisy. But the Campaign Legal Center, the organization that Trevor Potter founded, strongly disagrees...

Rod Parsley is one of the biggest hucksters on the fundamentalist fringe, widely credited with swinging Ohio for Bush in 2004 so it's no surprise John McCain is hugging him so furiously. What is surprising is that given our elite media's newfound fascination with the spiritual advisors of Presidential candidates, that nobody is looking into what a wack job Parsley is.

Looks like Mitch McConnell will finally allow separate votes on the FEC nominees, such that it can have a functioning board. After all this time when they couldn't act for lack of a quorum, why break the log jam now?

McConnell and the White House are obviously trying to ease things for John McCain, who has had complaints against him filed with the FEC both by the DNC and readers of this blog. David Mason, the current Chair of the FEC who said that McCain could not withdraw from the public financing system without permission from the board, is being thrown under the bus

Maybe it's just that I don't want to understand. I want to like Harry Reid, I want to think he's a public servant first and foremost, but when he runs around saying "Joe Lieberman is with us on anything but the war," I have to ask -- who's this "we," kimosabe? Glenn Greenwald has the rundown:

Steny Hoyer is reported to be working with Jay Rockefeller to achieve George Bush's fondest wish, to give retroactive immunity to the telecos (and the Bushies who worked with them, like Dick Cheney) on FISA. Only they plan to call it a "bipartisan" agreement, immunity that isn't immunity -- and then pat themselves on the head for their big victory. Glenzilla:

1. Being old may not disqualify John McCain from being president, but is there a reason he won't release his medical records? And while we're at it, Sugar Momma Cindy has certainly benefitted from the tax cuts McCain was once against, but now supports. Why won't she release her tax returns so people can know how much his switcheroo meant to her?

North Carolina absentee senator Liddy Dole was predictably not in the office when Pam Spaulding and the folks from BlueNC came calling with 1200 signatures we all collected asking Liddy to take a stand and make the racist Republican ads against Barack Obama stop -- something that John McCain is too politically feeble to do.

In honor of Emptywheel, I went on ABC to talk about John McCain with the sole purpose of uttering three words -- "Sugar Momma Express."

Was it a success? Well...you be the judge.

Pam Spaulding and other bloggers from BlueNC are going to be delivering petitions to Liddy Dole's office requesting that she do something to stop the race-baiting ads against Obama in North Carolina because John McCain is too weak to stop it. If you haven't signed the letter to Dole, you can do it here.