Everybody's buying important things for their lives

Greg Sargent at TPM is currently documenting some of the shenanigans going on with oil company employee contributions to the RNC. Party contributions are allowed at the $28,000 per person level. So, while mister fair-play anti-lobbyist (who just happens to have a campaign staffed by lobbyists) John McCain pretends to be capped by the fundraising limits set on his presidential campaign by agreeing to take federal matching funds, the Republican National Committee is out raising essentially unlimited dollars being funneled by Republican-leaning industries through its employees.

Of course, we're supposed to believe that all of this doesn't matter because the McCain campaign and the RNC are not allowed to "coordinate".

And I've got some swampland for sale in the Everglades (if McCain and Crist don't strike a deal to turn it over to the oil industry first).

Meanwhile, the McCain campaign has the nerve to attack Senator Obama for not accepting matching funds so that he can do unlimited fundraising (at the $2300 per person level).

And the media plays along.