John McCain Hasn't Voted in Five Weeks. Seriously
| Fri May. 18, 2007 12:22 PM PDT
Back in April we noted that John McCain had been too busy straight-talking on the campaign trail to vote on important legislation on Iraq. Turns out -- and this is kind of insane -- McCain hasn't voted since.
Yeah, that's right. McCain has gone five straight weeks without casting a vote in the Senate -- he's missed 43 straight votes. If he misses the next three votes, he'll have been absent for 50 percent of the votes in the 110th Congress.
And this isn't an inevitable product of running for president. Hillary Clinton has missed just 1.8 percent of the votes this year and Barack Obama has missed 6.4 percent.
What makes this all the more remarkable is that McCain is the only candidate in Congress who has done this before. He ran for president in 2000! He should know how to do it without looking like an idiot with an absentee problem. What on earth must the people of Arizona think?
Lord knows we aren't huge McCain fans around here, but good heavens John, you're better than this.
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If he's not doing the job the taxpayers are paying him for, he should return his salary and live on his campaign war chest. It's time our elected and very well-paid members of Congress realized that we don't put them in one office in order to finance their campaign for the next one. We expect some government between elections. McCain is probably not voting because he doesn't want to be on record as having any opinions that might cost him a vote somewhere. His time, I think, is over?and it should be. Any candidate whose answer to a foreign policy question is to sing "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" is not qualified to be president of anything more complicated than a frat house.
(P.S.-JSat, you're blaming the messenger . . . )
If he's not doing the job the taxpayers are paying him for, he should return his salary and live on his campaign war chest. It's time our elected and very well-paid members of Congress realized that we don't put them in one office in order to finance their campaign for the next one. We expect some government between elections. McCain is probably not voting because he doesn't want to be on record as having any opinions that might cost him a vote somewhere. His time, I think, is over?and it should be. Any candidate whose answer to a foreign policy question is to sing "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" is not qualified to be president of anything more complicated than a frat house.
(P.S.-JSat, you're blaming the messenger . . . )
Being in the minority party in a Congress where most votes go along party lines, I'm sure he realizes that his vote won't make a bit of difference in the outcome.
All of the recent negative publicity about McCain sure smells like a coordinated effort to torpedo his campaign.
Unfortunately the absentee vote by John McCain was the swing vote needed to pass a critical amendment to the bill on the FDA. To me, that means that his vote means a lot and as an Arizona voted, I am sorely disappointed that he has let me down. The amendments were overturned later with another amendment favorable to Big Pharm, but that is not the point.
J SAT,
Get that head out of the Sand. Hillary Clinton is a Candidate, Barak Obama is a Candidate. Both were heavily criticized by the media for chartering flights to participate in the Democratic Primary Debates. They HAD TO CHARTER flights to get to the debate because they were in Washington DC doing the job they were elected to do, BEING SENATORS.
McCain, is preserving his campaign funds, not that he is short of money, by NOT doing his job. He was in the Senate Friday, to get into a cussing Match over the language of the Immigration Bill.
I take a lot of crap from Partisan Conservatives for "Hating" the Republican Party. YOU J SAT have just earned the approbation of DEMOCRAT HATER. Go polish Mr Bush's boots, there is blood on them, AGAIN.
If he's not doing the job the taxpayers are paying him for, he should return his salary and live on his campaign war chest. It's time our elected and very well-paid members of Congress realized that we don't put them in one office in order to finance their campaign for the next one. We expect some government between elections. McCain is probably not voting because he doesn't want to be on record as having any opinions that might cost him a vote somewhere. His time, I think, is overand it should be. Any candidate whose answer to a foreign policy question is to sing "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" is not qualified to be president of anything more complicated than a frat house.
(P.S.-JSat, you're blaming the messenger . . . )
My expectations for any of the "folks" who allegedly represent us are quite low. John McCain, expletive deleted" candidate for president is just one of the many underachieving self-serving dolts in congress. The people of Arizona chose him so let them stew in their juices while "Mac" pisses away their franchise. What these shitheads do in Washington is far removed from doing the business of the people. As far as I'm concerned all of 'em need to be squeezed into the next train for hell post-haste! Fuggedaboutit.
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