Mr. McCain now sharply criticizes the bailout bill he voted for, pivoted from his earlier position that the Guantánamo Bay detention facility should be closed, offered only a muted response to the Supreme Court’s decision undoing campaign finance laws and backed down from statements that gays in the military would be O.K. by him if the military brass were on board.
Excerpt from “From Right of Radio Dial, a Challenge to McCain“ The New York Times
Let me steal more from Arizona!
To those in South Carolina that read this post, and *facepalm* there he goes again blasting the great McCrane, I will once again state; This fellow was my Senator for seven years working with County Government in Arizona from Tucson to Yuma and from Kingman to Flagstaff and from Sedona to Bisbee (the whole bloody State for those less versed in Arizona locations). For seven years everyone hated the fact that Phoenix kept reelecting this fellow in the open primaries to be the Republican candidate. With his wifes millions from her family’s bootlegging mob days (now legit Budweiser Distributorship) to his years of campaign contribution “war chest” the opposition was always in for an uphill battle just gaining enough support to post signs in the State that is the fifth largest in the Nation.
This fellow McCain supports anchor babies – the same anchor babies that allowed three women to die from the torture and rape by a Mexico National whose deportation was hung up because of his anchor babies. When McCain was presented with this in a town hall meeting in Prescott, he had his “aides” (aka bouncers) throw the lady that was asking him how he could still support illegal aliens and amnesty policies out of the forum because he did not want to answer the question. This fellow McCain missed more votes than anyone in the 110th Session of Congress and this should not be accepted while he spreads his “Mr. America” agenda instead of working for the folks that elect him to office – 63.9%.
McCain is not one of the 20 senators maintaining perfect 2009 voting records, but so far he has missed only nine votes, or 2.5 percent of the 353 Senate roll-call votes through Saturday, according to an Arizona Republic analysis. During the 2007 and 2008 sessions of the 110th Congress, McCain missed 420 votes, or 63.9 percent, of 657 opportunities.
In the first 11 months of 2009, McCain has cast 344 votes, already more than the 237 votes he cast in the prior two years combined.
* * * Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, doubted voters will consider McCain’s missed votes a very big deal, given the circumstances of the presidential race.
Still, McCain’s absenteeism remains an obvious issue for a political opponent to try to exploit, Sabato said. A Rasmussen Reports poll released Nov. 20 indicated that McCain is neck and neck with J.D. Hayworth, a former congressman and current KFYI (550 AM) talk-show host who is considering a GOP Senate run.
“If he gets a strong challenge in the Republican primary, inevitably the candidate will use that against him,” Sabato said. “The ads write themselves: ‘If you didn’t turn up at your job 60 percent of the time, would your employer keep you on? Of course not, but John McCain expects us to rehire him.’ ”
By comparison, junior Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., in the 110th Congress missed only 13 votes, or 2 percent. In the current 111th Congress, Kyl has missed five votes, or 1.4 percent.
Excerpt from “McCain improves voting record since end of presidential race“ AZCentral.com
Well I hate to tell the fellow from Virginia, I worked the trenches in Mohave, Coconino, Yuma, Pima, Cochise, Yavapia, and a bit in Gila counties – his missed votes were noted and the votes he cast were noted too. That is seven out of the fifteen counties that most of the folks I dealt with on a day-to-day basis really did not like McCain’s representation of Arizona in the Senate. Maybe this time, they will not say, “…but what can you do he has Phoenix votes?”
It would do America good to get this 75 year old relic of the Military Industrial Complex out of our Federal Government and retire him to counting his wife’s (for tax purposes he owns none of them *wink*) mansions’ and their many rooms.
Remember the prediction that was made at Beach Banter when the CFR controlled and central government sponsored media crowned McCain the Republican nominee with only 36% of the favorable votes out of 40 primary:
