The NYT has an unsourced story that implies that John McCain had an inappropriate relationship with a lobbyist. (If he were a Democrat the story wouldn't be worth printing, but he is a Republican, so innuendo is appropriate.) The story appears to be just an excuse to bring up the Keating Five Scandal. A while back I wrote that the Keating scandal was really a Democrat scam, but the Democrats needed a Republican in it to make it non-partisan. Last night on Fox I saw Robert S. Bennett, a Democrat who defended Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky case, discuss the Keating Five. He was the congressional investigator in that case. He said McCain was totally innocent in that case, and that he recommended that McCain be dropped from the inquiry, but, contrary to all other cases he investigated, his recommendation was not followed. He said the reason was that the Democrats had to have at least one Republican under investigation so it didn't appear to be solely a Democrat scandal. (The Senate ethics committee Censored Senator Cranston and criticized all five Senators, but concluded that McCain and John Glenn were just guilty of bad judgement; they were the only two of the five who were re-elected to the Senate.)