Today's TRMS
Doesn't McCain just have the most wicked sense of humor?! And yes we mean wicked, not in the Bostonian way, but in the "of the West" kind of way. Especially now that he has publicly tried to persuade his wife to compete in a topless beauty pageant at a biker rally in South Dakota. Now, what would Nancy Reagan do...?
On today's show Rachel will be talking to Greg Sargent from Talking Point Memo about the thousands of dollars Hess Corporation-- an oil company-- funneled into McCain's campaign just around the time of his pro-offshore drilling announcement.
And then Paul Rieckhoff from Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America joins us to talk about the $300 million granted to study post-traumatic stress disorder
Quick note about the energy policy discussion being "drilling."
Rachel mentioned recently that the McCain campaign has recently hijacked the energy policy discussion by turning it entirely into "to drill or not to drill."
I think they've done more than that. I think they've also turned the economy issue into "to drill or not to drill." It seems like almost every discussion of the economy gets boiled down to high gas prices. So instead of talking about real economic issues, it just becomes "We need to give the American people some relief at the pump."
The economy is supposed to be a winner for Democrats, but McCain is taking it away with this tactic.
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By Jason M. BryantAugust 5, 2008 - 3:55pm