On Friday, McCain and Palin went to Sterling Heights Michigan, where among other pithy slogans, McCain garnered rousing applause for lines like this:
"Send a team of mavericks who aren't afraid to go to Washington and break some china," McCain implored.
And in typical Republican fashion, such a "Team of Mavericks™" would be lead by a long time Washington Lobbyist like Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager, who knows how to break stuff...
More McCain from Friday's rally:
"It's over. It's over. It's over for the special interests," McCain promised. "We're going to start working for the people of this country."
He might want to tell his campaign manager Rick Davis, who is a lobbyist currently on leave from Davis, Manafort & Freedman, a political consulting firm in Alexandria, Virginia.
A sample of Davis' work on behalf of special interests who are decidedly not American:
"In 2003, Davis and his lobbying firm were hired by German logistic company DHL and Airborne Express, to lobby Congress to approve of a merger between the two firms. DHL Holdings was eventually successful in acquiring Airborne Express.
McCain and Davis have come under attack by the AFL-CIO for facilitating the deal, as DHL is now planning to quit using the Wilmington, Ohio freight airport as a hub. The airport and package-sorting facility in Wilmington was previously owned by Airborne Express. The move by DHL would cost an estimated 8,000 jobs at an air park in the southwest Ohio city of Wilmington. At the time of the merger, the deal created an estimated 1,000 jobs for the Wilmington area.
Or as McCain would put Davis' handiwork:
"Send a team of mavericks who aren't afraid to go to Washington and break some china," McCain implored.
I guess "breaking china" is one way to describe this:
The unemployment rate rose from 5.7 to 6.1 percent in August, and non- farm payroll employment continued to trend down (-84,000), the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. In August, employment fell in manufacturing and employment services, while mining and health care continued to add jobs. Average hourly earnings rose by 7 cents, or 0.4 percent, over the month.
No offense to the McCain camp, but I think we need a president who's team is better at fixing things than breaking them.