The McCain campaign has several times before informed us with a straight face that John McCain does not necessarily speak for the campaign, that some of the time you need to just totally ignore what he says. I guess that line was getting old, so they came up with something different this time. From not speaking for the McCain campaign, John McCain has graduated to lying for the Obama campaign.

On September 28, John McCain admitted that his health care plan increases taxes.

Exactly a week later, McCain’s no doubt very tired and overworked spokesperson, Tucker Bounds insisted that it is a “100 percent lie” to say that McCain’s health care plan would increase taxes:

First of all, is John McCain’s health care plan actually effectively would do wonders for the middle class. … Health care would get better. It would be more accessible to middle class families … What is (sic) campaign is doing is advertising in complete falsehoods. They’ve said that John McCain wants to tax health care. It is a 100 percent lie.

“They’ve said” refers to the Obama campaign, of course. They lie. And one week ago, John McCain was lying for them. That’s true bipartisanship, my friends.