“. Republicans can fight back by demanding a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of this matter that the SEC calls fraud and take it a step further by demanding the investigation include political donations and influence peddling this is critical considering the amount of taxpayer money used to bail out the politically connected firms. “
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This presents quite a problem for ‘republicans’ like John McCain.
Is anyone going to ask John McCain to return the $230,000 he got from Goldman Sachs? There have been demands for the democrats to do so.
This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2008 election cycle.
John McCain Merrill Lynch $373,595
Citigroup Inc $322,051
Morgan Stanley $273,452
Goldman Sachs $230,095 [snip]
Greenberg Traurig LLP $146,437 (Abramoff’s firm...OH, the irony)[snip]
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=n00006424
McCAin voted and pushed TARP.
TARP bailed out Goldman, and McCain’s top donors.
Goldman uses HB1 visas....
McCain got more $$ than any republican.
McCain is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
[snip]But there are at least some new supporters of the campaign. B. C. Clippard, who was national finance chairman of Fred D. Thompson’s presidential campaign, has now raised $100,000 or more for Mr. McCain. Former Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato of New York also supported Mr. Thompson but recently helped organize a fund-raiser in New York that netted over $1 million for Mr. McCain. Peter Newman, a former fund-raiser for Mr. Giuliani from Pebble Beach, Calif., has since become a Trailblazer for Mr. McCain. The list also includes something of a who’s who of his national finance team, including Tom Loeffler, a former congressman, and Lewis Eisenberg, a former Goldman Sachs partner and longtime player in Republican fund-raising.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/us/politics/21bundlers.html
[snip] Over the last year, John McCain supported everything that the grass-roots Tea Party movement has stood against:
*The $700 billion all-purpose, earmark-stuffed TARP bailout;
*The $25 billion auto bailout;
*The $300 billion mortgage entitlement bailout; and *The first $85 billion AIG bailout.
When push came to shove, McCain and his economic advisers (including his hand-picked California GOP Senate candidate, Carly Fiorina) caved to the Chicken Little chaos in Washington every time and joined hands with Barack Obama.
Reasonable people may not assert that John McCain is an unsurpassed paragon of “fiscal responsibility.”
____http://www.desertconservative.com/2010/02/11/mccain-a-rino-see-and-decide-for-yourself/
MeCain got the most money out of Keating too.
For all the talk about end the evils of corrupting money on Capital Hill, MeCain grabs as much of it as he can stuff in his bank vault.
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