Here’s McCain’s statement, reported by the Wall Street Journal on Monday, after the McCain campaign got rid of a couple officials who has lobbied for the government of Myanmar.

Sen. John McCain said today that his campaign will do a better job scrutinizing the people who work for it, given the resignation of two officials who had ties to a firm representing Myanmar’s military junta.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee also responded to a Wall Street Journal story published today that a firm co-owned by his campaign manager, Rick Davis, hired a public-relations firm to burnish the U.S. image of a Ukrainian political party backed by Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Asked what he was going to do to make sure these sorts of things do not happen in the future, McCain said, “People will be thoroughly, more thoroughly, vetted and we’ll make sure that that is the case.”

He specifically referred to the two people who were tied to Myanmar—Doug Davenport, a regional campaign director for Mid-Atlantic states, and Doug Goodyear, who was slated to run the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., this summer.

No, that wasn’t the end of it. Phil Gramm, lobbyist for UBS, and former porn investor, has had his role reduced at the McCain campaign, and a few others have since fled the ethically challenged McCain campaign…

But the day after making his promise, McCain was prompted to ask for the resignation of another adviser after a reporter questioned the man’s ties to a supposedly independent “527″ campaign group, which is barred by law from coordinating with candidates’ campaigns.

McCain’s camp paid Craig Shirley and his firm more than $22,000 for work earlier this year, the Politico newspaper reported. At the same time, the paper found, Shirley’s firm had been paid $155,000 by an anti-Hillary Clinton group, Stop Her Now. (The group recently changed its name to Stop Him Now and has wheeled its guns to target Barack Obama.)

Shirley’s firm will no longer work for McCain, and he will step down from McCain’s Virginia Leadership Team, the campaign told Politico.

This is all part of that K Street strategy that blew up in the faces of the Republicans, of course. The American people didn’t take kindly to the Republican notion that the revolving door between K Street lobbying firms and the legislature be a “Republican-only” door. John McCain himself was upset by all the lobbying, if I recall correctly. But because the K Street project went on so long, there’s hardly a mover and shaker in the Republican fold who hasn’t served as a lobbyist for some Dictatorial regime somewhere.

Hmm, here’s a story that might mean more people will be canned from the McCain campaign. Then again, the list may not become public information. Still, the culture of corruption is still paying dividends, eh?