I think that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. They publically humiliated Bill Clinton not to mention Hill, and talked about impeachment. Why is his name still on the ballad? May be had real sex may be "didn't have real sex" but more than liky he had something inappropiate with Iseman. American people don't have time to find out.
McCain’s Counteroffensive
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"Only one staffer had the authority and the ability to ban a person from the office or tell staffers or the senator to keep their distance from someone, [and that] was me," Salter told NEWSWEEK. "I never did, and I never had a reason to." Asked if he was aware of Weaver's conversation with Iseman, Salter said no. "Weaver never discussed it with me or McCain," he said.
On Thursday McCain echoed Salter's denials, telling reporters he had no knowledge of Weaver's meeting with Iseman and saying he had never had any discussions with his former aide about her or any other lobbyist. Asked if Weaver, whom McCain repeatedly described as a "good friend," had told him or any of his aides about his conversations with the Times or the Post, McCain said no. "I never discussed it with John Weaver," McCain said. "As far as I know, there was no necessity for it … I did not know anything about it."
Weaver did not return an e-mail from NEWSWEEK seeking comment.
The story revives a controversy that dogged McCain during his failed run for the presidency in 2000. In late 1999 McCain twice wrote letters to the Federal Communications Commission on behalf of Paxson Communications, a Florida-based telecom company that had retained Iseman as a lobbyist. The company had been attempting to purchase a Pittsburgh television station and was seeking a quick resolution to the deal. Paxson employees, including top executive Bud Paxson, were major contributors to the McCain campaign, having ponied up more than $20,000 in support of his presidential effort. Federal Election Commission records show that McCain also flew on Paxson's corporate jet four times, for which the McCain campaign reimbursed the company almost $8,000.
In his letters to the FCC, McCain did not urge the agency to approve the Paxson deal but rather urged them to speed up consideration of the deal, which had been pending for nearly two years. Still, then-FCC chairman William Kennard, who had occasionally clashed with McCain during his tenure as Commerce Committee chair, complained that the senator's request "could have procedural and substantive impacts" on the committee's deliberations and on the "due process rights" of those involved.
When word of McCain's letters went public, the senator denied wrongdoing and released letters he had written as chairman of the Commerce Committee to federal agencies to buttress his argument that he hadn't shown favor to Paxson or any other campaign contributors.
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