A guess this was just a matter of time:

At the end of a two-day trip through Oregon, Obama was asked Saturday morning about whether it was fair for one of his supporters, Rep. Peter A. DeFazio (D-Ore.), to have invoked McCain's role in a nearly 20-year-old scandal when he introduced Obama at a University of Oregon rally Friday night.

DeFazio had said: McCain "says we need less regulation. Hello! Wall Street mortgage meltdown, Bear Stearns taxpayer bailout, Enron, but, you know, I guess maybe for a guy who was up to his neck in the Keating Five and savings-and-loan scandal, less regulation is better."

DeFazio was referring to McCain being one of the five senators disciplined for improperly trying to influence federal regulators in the late 1980s scandal. McCain has called it "the worst mistake of my life."

I would hazard a guess that you can expect to hear more about this and other ethical questions as McCain tries to pass himself off as The Great Reformer.

And that is saying a lot when one contemplates the temper, position-swapping, lobbyist-lovefests and the like. From the Politico via Truthout:

John McCain is planning to run as a different kind of Republican. But being any kind of Republican seems like some sort of death sentence these days.

In case you've been too consumed by the Democratic race to notice, Republicans are getting crushed in historic ways both at the polls and in the polls.

At the polls, it has been a massacre. In recent weeks, Republicans have lost a Louisiana House seat they had held for more than two decades and an Illinois House seat they had held for more than three. Internal polls show that next week they could lose a Mississippi House seat that they have held for 13 years.

In the polls, they are setting records (and not the good kind). The most recent Gallup Poll has 67 percent of voters disapproving of President Bush; those numbers are worse than Richard Nixon's on the eve of his resignation. A CBS News poll taken at the end of April found only 33 percent of Americans have a favorable view

Yikes. This is harsh. I saw some of our faithful commenters referring to it, so I found it.

h/t Huff Post