flip flop

There are Two stories here.

First is the sudden flip flop of John McCain's position against offshore drilling after an unblemished record of 30 years in opposition. What made him flip? He got bought.

John McCain has now taken money, a lot of money, from Big Oil. Until he flip-flopped on offshore drilling, they had not been very generous. "We don't pay for competence," Big Oil said. "We pay

TN GOP flack Bill Hobbs needs to get his story straight about media access to the TN GOP’s Statesmen’s Dinner Saturday night.

Nate thinks that Barack Obama may use his trip to Iraq as a reason to move further to the center:

...just a thought. Will anyone else not be amazed when Barack Obama returns from Iraq with a "new perspective" (i.e. more centrist) view on the war, with a "cautious analysis" (i.e. flip flop for moderate votes) of a longer withdrawal from Iraq?

It was inevitable with the 3,000 liberal bloggers descending on Austin, Texas for a new-media conference that editors of the local paper, the Austin American-Statesman, would weigh in and take a few conventional mainstream shots at the bloggers.  However, I cannot get my around the editorial'

Theda Skocpol stirred up a hornets' nest (and did her best Bill O'Reilly impression) at TPM by calling upon liberals either to sit down and shut up or to join in lock step behind the Obama campaign.  Here's the