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U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has called on President Barack Obama to veto federal spending bills approved by the U.S. House of Representatives. McCain and other fiscal conservatives, such as Phoenix-area Congressmen John Shadegg and Jeff Flake, fault the spending bills as too large with unnecessary pet projects. ”The bill approved by the House that will be brought before the full Senate is 1,123 pages, accompanied by a 1,844-page statement of managers – for a whopping 2,967 pages of legislation – and contains over 9,000 unnecessary and wasteful earmarks. This bill represents status quo Washington at its worst,” said McCain...

Remember the Keating Five? McCain’s own standards would have hung him. For too long, McCain has been given a free pass by the media, which promotes campaign-finance reform to silence other voices, and by his Republican colleagues, who are concerned about alienating McCain given the GOP's tenuous majority in the Senate. In John McCain's America, any politician who accepts a large contribution or gift from a donor, and then takes steps consistent with the donor's interests — even though there is no legal quid pro quo — is corrupt. Well, then, by his own standard, McCain is corrupt. McCain was...