McCain the Liar, Part 3

John McCain isn't a big fan of the truth:

But, earlier in his administration, when the Republicans controlled Congress, Bush routinely signed budgets that included pork-barrel projects and earmarked spending.

"That was probably the biggest mistake the Bush administration made," McCain said Tuesday.

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In 2003, he was against tax reductions and spending increases because the war might cost a lot. In 2008, he thinks Bush should have vetoed even Republican-passed bills because of pork. That's consistency!

Not so fast:

2005 Budget Resolution (voted 3/12/04): Yea
2006 Budget Resolution (voted 3/17/05): Yea
2007 Budget Resolution (voted 3/16/06): Yea

McCain the Liar, Part 2

John McCain isn't a big fan of the truth:

"Everybody says that they’re against the special interests. I’m the only one the special interests don’t give any money to."

John McCain

This is coming from the man that took $422,376 from lobbyists.

McCain the Liar, Part 1

John McCain isn't a big fan of the truth:

Broadcaster Lowell “Bud” Paxson yesterday contradicted statements from Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist before sending two controversial letters to the Federal Communications Commission on Paxson’s behalf.

Paxson said he talked with McCain in his Washington office several weeks before the Arizona Republican wrote the letters in 1999 to the FCC urging a rapid decision on Paxson’s quest to acquire a Pittsburgh television station.

Paxson also recalled that his lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, likely attended the meeting in McCain’s office and that Iseman helped arrange the meeting. “Was Vicki there? Probably,” Paxson said in an interview with The Washington Post yesterday. “The woman was a professional. She was good. She could get us meetings.”

The recollection of the now-retired Paxson conflicted with the account provided by the McCain campaign about the two letters at the center of a controversy about the senator’s ties to Iseman, a partner at the lobbying firm of Alcalde & Fay.