The McCains increased their budget for household employees from $184,000 in 2006 to $273,000 in 2007, according to John McCain’s tax returns…
…That’s right. The McCains pay $270,000 per year for butlers and maids–that’s $50,000 more than the median value of an American home.
Out of touch!! Elitist!! A-R-U-G-U-L-A!!
I’ll bet he has a barrista on the payroll too. That latte-drinking, New York Times reading, multi-home-owner…
True. Maybe that explains where Vicky Iseman’s been?
this just keeps on giving.
Kevin Drum finds it’s A gift for the Dem Convention…and provides a Luxury Real Estate Guide to “McCain’s Houses” and ponders Ann Richards (RIP) running with this line.
I wonder if there are any career openings. Seems to me the butlers and maids need a tax break.
Apparently both NBC and ABC hit McCain on the house issue, and they did not run his Rezko ad.
The Rezko ad may simply have no oxygen supply, since it’s been so thoroughly investigated by the press already.
the McCain camp is damaging the brand..not many moderates are happy. I just posted a diary that Eisenhower has made public her goodbye to the GOP…citing among her reasons the McCain camp’s “unworthy Karl Rove-style political campaign.”
wonder what she thinks of Limbaugh’s Everyone’s afraid to ‘criticize the little black man-child’
It’s about time, too. The McCain brand should’ve been shit from the beginning.
The guy’s a corrupt, spoiled psycho. Period.
Boo, how dare you mock John McCain. He’s a POW. Why do you hate America?
“He’s a war hero and POW who gets his offices attacked by powder filled envelopes from dirty f’ckin hippies, so who cares about how many houses he has!”
Watch and learn how the McCain boys spin this. It will be used to justify everything said tomorrow by the Right Wing Noise Machine and the suggestions made to turn Denver into a fortress…for the safety of Obama, of course.
What do you want to bet the campaign sent this to themselves? Sorry to be so cynical, but that’s what the last 8 years have done to me. It will turn out to be a harmless substance – like the baby powder sent to Dykstra’s office on Monday.
I wonder if we’ll see a whole rash of this type of thing over the next few months. Only affecting republicans, of course.
zandar, denver’s already a city under siege, and the cops paranoia is being carefully ratched up by someone. the responses are more than predictable:
lodo bomb scare
suspicious package bomb scare…in progress…
a massive security apparatus…
cages for protesters…
and on and on and on.
this has a huge potential to get very ugly. geov parrish, and others who are going in there had best stay very alert.
a trifling amount…and, it’s probably a tax deduction for the trusts and corporations that own the property. when you’re well over a mil deep in credit card debt…what’s another $270k?
how much do you want to bet they pay most of them minimum wage?
John McCain, the quintessential clown, is turning his campaign into an absolute farce. I am watching him in utter disbelief. As to the mass media, they become more and more pathetic. And, the Russians are supposed to be afraid of us?
Republicans suck.
man that is wealthy not rich…McCains boosting the trickle down theory…
Booman you Volvo driving elitist keeping track of other peoples wealth…
On the Arugula note:
Al Giordano says:
Yep. Call arugula by its other name, rocket, and lots of old-timers will know what it is.