AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: John McCain voted to raise taxes 477 times

skip to main | skip to sidebar

AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth

Friday, October 03, 2008

John McCain voted to raise taxes 477 times

by John Aravosis (DC) on 10/03/2008 07:20:00 PM

John McCain voted to raise taxes 477 times

blog comments powered by Disqus

Newer Post Older Post Home

John's Photos

<a href="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/616233/0/cc?z=csm"><img src="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/616233/0/vc?z=csm&dim=616028&abr=$imginiframe" width="300" height="250" border="0"></a>

Daily Kos

Yoo's Self Defense - John Yoo takes the the WSJ opinion pages to provide a highly disingenuous and legally lacking defense of the Bush administration's warrantless wiretap pr...
42 seconds ago
HuffPost Politics

Another Blagojevich Lawyer Jumps Ship - It was just last month that Chicago lawyer Giel Stein joined Rod Blagojevich's defense team....
15 minutes ago
Crooks and Liars

Dueling Health Care Flow Charts: Reality vs. GOP Propaganda - [image: cohn-chart_0d13b.jpg][image: boehnerchart_f19cf.jpg] (Reality flow chart) (GOP propaganda chart) As Media Matters points out, today's GOP is tryi...
54 minutes ago
Firedoglake

John Yoo: Al Qaeda Uses Telephones but KGB Spies Don’t - John Yoo says high tech communication is THE BEST WAY to find al Qaeda operatives.
55 minutes ago
Eschaton

Pointing Out the Obvious - I've waited a long time for health care reform to be at the top of the agenda. Now that congress is finally addressing the issue, politicians on both sides...
1 hour ago
Think Progress

Blue Dogs threatening to quash health bill over surtax voted for Bush tax cuts. - Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR) — along with six other members of the Blue Dog coalition on the House Energy and Commerce Committee — are threatening to vote down th...
1 hour ago
Political Wire

Quote of the Day - "We're going to do that crack cocaine thing." -- Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), to a witness at Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings.
2 hours ago
Towleroad

Obama to NAACP: Anti-Gay Discrimination Has No Place in America - President Obama addressed the NAACP at its Centennial Convention this evening in New York. In a speech mentioning the economy, health care, education and H...
2 hours ago
Plum Line

Happy Hour Roundup - *** Eric Cantor declares that it's now "clearly President Obama's economy."
3 hours ago
Matthew Yglesias

Endgame - Hopefully no embarrassing typos in today’s edition: — The truth about rich people’s taxes. — Rupert Murdoch seems to be writing the headlines at the WSJ th...
3 hours ago
Ben Smith

Remainders: Health Care - Another remarkably dense summer day, with the last day of Sotomayor's testimony one of the less dramatic things going on. The CBO chi
3 hours ago
AMERICAblog Gay

Video of ABC's Tapper questioning Gibbs about why Obama opposes marriage equality - I now have an additional DC-based political source who says that White House spokesman Robert Gibbs is known to be very anti-gay. What I'm hearing goes far...
5 hours ago
Paul Krugman

Winning the narrative - Yesterday I had a conversation with someone who, like me, spent most of the Bush years as a voice in the wilderness. And he pointed out something remarkabl...
6 hours ago
538.com

The Obama Effect Considered - President Obama has been described as many things - a Rorschach inkblot; a movement; a new America; a fraud; a demagogue. For whatever it is that he ultima...
10 hours ago

Show 5 Show All

AMERICAblog TV

I collect with Vodpod. Watch more of my videos

Visit our AMERICAblog TV site.

Gay Politics

Visit our new gay politics section, AMERICAblog Gay.

Feeds

AMERICAblog TV RSS

Twitter RSS
Twitter Feed

Get the blog by email:

Health Care Reform

Ezra Klein

Tab Dump
2 hours ago
Walker Report

The Very Conservative House Democrats' Health Care Reform
3 hours ago
Daily Dose

Massachusetts Takes Big Step Away From Fee-for-Service
4 hours ago
The Treatment

Health Care Deal Tonight?
4 hours ago
Wonk Room

Blue Dogs Threatening To Quash Health Bill Over Surtax Voted For Bush Tax Cuts
4 hours ago
Health Beat

Taxing the Wealthy to Finance Healthcare Reform
4 hours ago
Managed Care Matters

Why the fight over the public plan option is pointless
13 hours ago
NYCeve

In Washington: Making the powerful uncomfortable
22 hours ago
denialism blog

Vitamin Lead: All Natural Component in your Nutritional Supplements
2 days ago

Show 5 Show All

Traditional Media

BBC

Blasts strike two Jakarta hotels
17 minutes ago
Yahoo! Politics

House committee agrees to longer COBRA benefits (AP)
34 minutes ago
ABC

Obama Stresses Responsibility on NAACP's 100th Anniversary
49 minutes ago
CNN

Teen is youngest to sail solo around world
1 hour ago
Guardian

Five wounded and two killed in New Jersey shootout
6 hours ago
TIME

In CIT Woes, Some See Restart of Financial Crisis
7 hours ago

Show 5 Show All

Opinion

E.J. Dionne Jr.

America's Silent Crisis in Access to Postsecondary Education
1 day ago
Mark Morford

One big multivitamin orgasm / One to make you larger, and one to make you small, one to do everything, and all
1 day ago
Maureen Dowd

White Man’s Last Stand
1 day ago
Harold Meyerson

Echoes of McNamara on Wall Street
1 day ago
Cynthia Tucker

Calls to fix traffic are familiar
2 days ago
Eric Boehlert

Saradise Lost: How Alaska Bloggers Dethroned Sarah Palin
2 days ago
Bob Herbert

Chutzpah on Steroids
2 days ago
Richard Cohen

Reality Belies a Health-Care Scare Tactic
2 days ago
Eugene Robinson

A Sotomayor Sense of Justice
2 days ago
Derrick Z. Jackson

Common sense on needle exchange
2 days ago
Paul Krugman

Boiling the Frog
3 days ago
Frank Rich

She Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It
4 days ago
Mark Shields

Our Humor-Impaired Politics for 07/11/2009
5 days ago
Joe Klein

Obama: Getting Down to the Hard Choices
1 week ago
Cynthia Tucker

Welcome to the Club, Sarah
1 week ago

Show 5 Show All

Economics Blogs

Nouriel Roubini

Roubini Statement on the U.S. Economic Outlook
3 hours ago
Paul Krugman

Winning the narrative
6 hours ago
Robert Reich

Goldman and JPMorgan -- The Two Winners When The Rest of America is Losing
10 hours ago
Robert Kuttner

Three Reasons We Need an Economic Wake Up Call
1 week ago

Business News

Yahoo! Business

CIT rushes to secure lending, bankruptcy feared (Reuters)
38 minutes ago
BBC

Power rangers
2 hours ago
CNNMoney

Starbucks unveils a new drink: Booze
3 hours ago
Motley Fool

This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades
4 hours ago
Financial Times

US to lobby China over Rio
7 hours ago
BusinessWeek

As Promised, Obama Launches Exec-Pay Plan
12 hours ago
The Street

You've Been Warned: No Value in Old GM
1 day ago

Show 5 Show All

AMERICABLOG KUDOS

Gay Civil Rights

Towleroad

Obama to NAACP: Anti-Gay Discrimination Has No Place in America
2 hours ago
Dan Savage's Slog

Gay White People Aren't Allowed To Be Upset With Barack Obama
3 hours ago
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

My answer to L.Z. Granderson - There should be no pride in comparing forms of oppression
3 hours ago
Rod 2.0

Book Review and Giveaway: Clarence Nero's "Too Much of a Good Thing Ain't Bad"
4 hours ago
Joe. My. God.

McCain Objects To Hate Crimes Bill
5 hours ago
Pam's House Blend

PFAW on the litany of right wing fringe lies about hate crimes legislation
5 hours ago
AMERICAblog Gay

Video of ABC's Tapper questioning Gibbs about why Obama opposes marriage equality
5 hours ago
Good As You

But at least it's not like the economy sucks or anything
5 hours ago
Signorile

David Brooks: Senator touched my "inner thigh"
8 hours ago
Rex Wockner

Now I'm a journalism critic
1 day ago

Show 5 Show All

Foreign Press

AL JAZEERA

Explosions rock Indonesia hotels
16 minutes ago
Haaretz

For religious ex-South African captain, there is life after soccer
17 minutes ago
BBC

Blasts strike two Jakarta hotels
17 minutes ago
International Herald Tribune

European Subsidies Stray From the Farm
1 hour ago
South China Morning Post

Fed sees economy as weak and vulnerable to further shocks
4 hours ago
Le Monde

OMC : Pascal Lamy se voit refuser une augmentation de 32 %
5 hours ago
Corriere della Sera

Italian Soldier Killed in Afghanistan
1 day ago

Show 5 Show All

Gossip

Gawker

Twitter Widens Blog War [Wtf]
27 minutes ago
POLITICO: Life

Obama: 'Discrimination still felt'
35 minutes ago
TMZ

Jackson Autopsy Report Delayed
36 minutes ago
Perez Hilton

One Crazy Lucky Paul McCartney Fan….
1 hour ago
Wonkette

Treasury Department Seeks Trained Clown
3 hours ago
Liz Smith

LIZ SMITH FLASH! Obamas, Clintons Play Safe at Martha's Vineyard
6 hours ago
Reliable Source

On Capitol Hill, a Fibula Buster
19 hours ago

Show 5 Show All

Chris' Favorite Food Blogs

Chocolate & Zucchini

Lemon Verbena Sorbet
1 day ago
Simply Recipes

Blueberry Pie
1 day ago

Search

Enter your search terms Submit search form
AMERICAblog Web

Send us tips & comments

americablog@starpower.net

Blog Archive

Sites We Like

Site Meter

News Links

US

Washington Post
NYT
AP Politics
Reuters Politics
Rasmussen Polls
Time
Newsweek
Roll Call
The Hill

ABCNews
Bloomberg Politics
Boston Globe
CBS News
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Tribune
Christian Science Monitor
CNN
Congressional Quarterly
Dallas Morning News
Dow Jones
Houston Chronicle
Los Angeles Times
McClatchy
Miami Herald
NBC News
NY Daily News
New Republic
NY Daily News blog
NYT listing of blogs
New Yorker
NPR
Philly Daily News
Philly Inquirer
SF Chronicle
USA Today
Vanity Fair
Village Voice

Foreign

Agence France-Presse
Al Jazeera
Asia Times
BBC
Der Spiegel (Germany, in English)
Economist
Far Eastern Economic Review
Financial Times
Guardian (UK)
Haaretz (Israel)
Independent (UK)
International Herald Tribune
Jerusalem Post
Le Monde (in French)
Le Monde Diplomatique (in English)
South China Morning Post
Times of India
Times of London
Yahoo, World News (in French)
Yahoo, Latin American News (in Spanish)

Opinion

Jonathan Alter
Eric Boehlert
Eleanor Clift
E.J. Dionne, Jr.
Maureen Dowd
Dan Froomkin
Mark Morford
Frank Rich
Helen Thomas

Political Cartoons

Daryl Cagle
Jeff Danziger
Doonesbury
Mark Fiore
Mike Luckovich
Pat Oliphant
Ted Rall
Tom Toles

Gossip

Defamer
Gawker
Liz Smith
Page Six
Perez Hilton
Reliable Source (Wash Post)
Rush & Molloy
TMZ
Wonkette
Yahoo Celebrity News

Standard Ad

Please Support AMERICAblog

One-time donation

$

Recurring monthly donation

$

Donations are not tax-deductible.

Labels

Last 100 visitors

About AMERICAblog

Why AMERICAblog?

Because a great nation deserves the truth.

What issues do you cover?

US politics overall with a particular focus on the Obama Administration, the radical right, and civil rights.

Who are you?

John Aravosis
Editor
Washington, DC

Joe Sudbay
Deputy Editor
Washington, DC

Chris Ryan
Associate Editor
Paris, France

Robert Arena
Contributing Editor
Baltimore, Maryland

Jacki Schechner
Contributing Editor
Washington, DC

© 2009 - John Aravosis | Design maintenance by Jason Rosenbaum Send me your tips: americablog@starpower.net