McCain Rated As America’s Worst Senator For Children
McCain Rated As America’s Worst Senator For Children
Today, the Children’s Defense Fund Action Council released its 2007 Nonpartisan Congressional Scorecard. CDF reports some positive news, particularly that average scores for members of Congress “improved from the previous three years with more Members scoring 100 percent than in 2004, 2005 or 2006.”
Many, however, did not fare so well. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) received a 10 percent rating — the worst in the U.S. Senate.
CDF ranked members on 10 votes affecting children:
1. Increase minimum wage (H.R. 2)
2. Increase funding for children with disabilities (S. Con. Res. 21)
3. Protect children from unsafe medications (S. 1082)
4. 2008 Budget resolution (S. Con. Res. 21)
5. SCHIP Reauthorization (H.R. 976)
6. College Cost Reduction and Access Act (H.R. 2669)
7. SCHIP (H.R. 976 - motion to concur)
8. DREAM Act (S. 2205)
9. Funding child health and education (H.R. 3043)
10. Improving Head Start programs (H.R. 1429)
McCain has missed 57 percent of Senate votes this session, being absent or voting “present” for 8 out of 10 children-related votes. McCain voted “yes” to increase the minimum wage; his only other vote was voting “no” on SCHIP reauthorization on Aug. 2, 2007:
Furthermore, the rankings weren’t divided by party. Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Gordon Smith (R-OR) received strong 70 percent rankings.
McCain’s CDF score has steadily declined over the years. In 2004, he received a 38 percent; in 2005, 22 percent; in 2006, 10 percent.
Read the full report here.
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I guess as he’s gotten farther and farther from the event, he’s turned his back on it….
Much like his stand on torture…
February 27th, 2008 at 5:30 pmWhy does McWhore hate the children…?
February 27th, 2008 at 5:31 pmNote that this has nothing to do with McCain’s relationship with conservative radio host Bill “I’m Not A Child Molester” Cunningham.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:33 pmMcDonalds
McMansions
McCoffee
McMillionaire
McCain
Things are lookin’ up?
February 27th, 2008 at 5:34 pmA moot point but I wonder if we would have been better off had McCain beaten Bush? Hopefully, we won’t have a chance to find out in 2009.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:35 pm11. He’s just plain scary to look at the pastey old fart.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:35 pmI’d rate him as the worst Senator for the American people as well.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:36 pmWOW what a dick!
February 27th, 2008 at 5:39 pmI believe that ANY Conservative Republican would top ANY “worst” list. They ALL suck, but at least McCain is not a child molester like Bill Cunningham…
February 27th, 2008 at 5:39 pmHe looks like he just swallowed one.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:39 pmRepugs just love zygotes. Kids, not so much. They don’t pay taxes, you have to educate them, vaccinate them, they get sick without insurance, and they are too young to die in Bush’s War.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:39 pmI’m guessing this will be spun by the right wing as a liberal group. Soros will be attached to it no doubt.
I might have missed it but not one republican got 100% and not one democrat got under 30% (everyone under the 30% is a republican.
republicans are anti children after birth.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:39 pmOh, I forgot:
McJowels
February 27th, 2008 at 5:43 pmInteresting picture with this story. Just look at the cheeks on that chipmunk — looks like it’s going to be a long winter.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:49 pmBush III!
February 27th, 2008 at 5:54 pmWhy would this old wart put razor blades in kid’s halloween candy?
February 27th, 2008 at 5:55 pmMcCain has missed 57 percent of Senate votes this session, being absent or voting “present†for 8 out of 10 children-related votes.
So McBush is an equal opportunity screw off. In short, Arizona does not have a functioning Senator. Missing more than half of the issues he was elected to speak to, is simply being derelict in his duty. Yet the people of Arizona will no doubt vote for him in November. Unreal!
February 27th, 2008 at 6:04 pmI kind of wonder what the former Congressman from Florida Mr. Foley thinks about this problem that McBush has with children. Think he will send him an email.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:11 pmI’d rate him as the worst Senator for the American people as well.
Comment by RUCerious — February 27, 2008 @ 5:36 pm
I don’t know, RUC… Imhofe is still out there. As are McConnell, “Tough-talkin’” Arlen Specter and Joe LIEberman…
There’s a cornucopia of bad Senators from which to choose.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:12 pmNot only does McCain score a zero on the environment, he also fails children. McCain should have never run for president. All his dirty laundry is hanging on the lines and the skeletons are falling out of the closets.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:13 pmMCJowls is also America’s worst Senator for the troops. With his wanting to keep troops in Iraq for thousands of years and bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.
Why does McCain hate children, the troops, and puppies too?
February 27th, 2008 at 6:17 pmSorry John, this is no country for old men.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:18 pmthe repubs got their man!
February 27th, 2008 at 6:46 pmlooks like the repubs got their man!
February 27th, 2008 at 6:46 pmMcCain Rated As America’s Worst Senator For Children
Well, now I know who will be the Republican candidate in November. Republican bases have a crush with heartless bastards.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:51 pmCindy doesn’t like children - they smell funny.
February 27th, 2008 at 7:22 pmThere’s a cornucopia of bad Senators from which to choose.
Comment by ralph the wonder llama — February 27, 2008 @ 6:12 pm
Yep. I’d love to see all these bastards put in ill fitting camo, dropped into Dora with a .45 sidearm and their bravado. And half a roll of TP, for their soiled undies.
February 27th, 2008 at 7:29 pmReally, for children… Do we have to stop there?
How ’bout for all.
February 27th, 2008 at 7:47 pmWorst Senator, Ever.
February 27th, 2008 at 7:52 pmWhy does McScrooge hate America’s children?
Are there no jails, no labor houses, or factors for these erchins?
Buck Fush
February 27th, 2008 at 8:03 pmthe RAPTURE RIGHT sure likes him…
Mega-Church Pastor in Texas Backs McCain
February 27th, 2008 at 8:13 pmNew York Times - 1 hour ago
By Elisabeth Bumiller SAN ANTONIO - Senator John McCain got support on Wednesday from an important corner of evangelical Texas when the pastor of a San Antonio mega-church, Rev.
Hagee Endorses McCain Washington Post
…
My friends, children are not the future. My friends. My friends.
February 27th, 2008 at 8:29 pmIs McCain wearing some sort of weave for the elderly lately? His pate has a bit more coverage than usual.I’m sure the MSM would be all over this like the Edwards haircut thing if it were a weave….right? Right?
February 27th, 2008 at 9:10 pmHere’s a policy question where Grandpa could use a flip-flop.
February 27th, 2008 at 10:41 pmIs it just me or does McCain look like a windup doll with a crooked stick up his ass when he gives a speech? He walks back and forth with such stiffness he looks like he’s been constipated for a week.
February 27th, 2008 at 11:15 pm#15..As an Arizonan I can guarantee you that not all Arizonans will support McCain… but unfortunately, too many will.
February 27th, 2008 at 11:52 pmHe looks like he just swallowed one.
Comment by Zooey — February 27, 2008 @ 5:39 pm
ha!! - good call!!! - and all grumpy old men don’t like children very much anyway.
February 27th, 2008 at 11:53 pmWhy not? At age 71, he’ll be dead long before these kids reach voting age.
-AF
February 28th, 2008 at 12:15 amMcCain Rated As America’s Worst Senator For Children
That’s amusing, because most people who use their brains realize Sen. McCain is the worst Senator currently running for President!
February 28th, 2008 at 6:32 am#38 - Comment by BERT CONVY — February 28, 2008 @ 8:21 am
This, from the party of “We care for the fetus, until the baby is born, then we don’t give a single, solitary crap anymore!”
Wow, those sure are some sort of strange “family values” to which you adhere, bert.
February 28th, 2008 at 8:40 amHe was just trying to get the conservative vote! They hate children almost as much as they hate the troops.
February 28th, 2008 at 8:55 amAnother no vote for a special interest group(children) that needs help from the gov`t, not from 100yrs Mccain. More $$$$$ for Operation Iraqi Liberation (oil), go figure. This old man is going down in Nov. I am still looking for his good CHRISTIAN VALUES.
February 28th, 2008 at 9:02 amDoesn’t McCain understand that he has to keep children healthy so that he can wage his 10,000 year war?
February 28th, 2008 at 9:16 amWhat a bs rating. This just asked how much he raised our taxes. Raising taxes for more entitlement programs hurts children because the government would be stealing more money from their parents means less money for their children. I fully support McCain on this issue. I am glad he hasn’t stolen more American tax payer money for more entitlement programs. In a day and age when we have a deficit, you would think both parties would be coming together to reduce and remove most all entitlement programs until we get the budget correct.
February 28th, 2008 at 9:20 amRegardless of anybody’s rating, McCain doesn’t deserve to be elected President in any country I can think of. He was broken in prison, and
February 28th, 2008 at 9:27 amthough he undoubtedly suffered enough for one lifetime, that in itself doesn’t qualify him for the highest office in the land.
I do not believe he has enough integrity to run this country successfully, though unfortunately he’s good enough for the Republicans. Faith of his fathers, indeed!
February 28th, 2008 at 9:40 am#43 - “In a day and age when we have a deficit, you would think both parties would be coming together to reduce and remove most all entitlement programs until we get the budget correct.” Comment by Roger_Roger — February 28, 2008 @ 9:20 am
You’d think they’d also consider ALL programs, not just the entitlement ones that help low/no-income people.
Why are we paying billions for military contractors that are not doing the work for which they are hired?
Oh, I forget. Pres. Bush has to line the pockets of the people who got him “selected” in 2000.
February 28th, 2008 at 10:11 amMcCain hates children, fits right in with the other Repugs and “religious right”. Bunch of hypocrites trying to stop abortion when they’re the worst womanizers and if you make abortion illegal you don’t stop it you cause more desperate women to die. It’s easy to not care about children because they don’t vote but if they could they wouldn’t want McCain that’s for sure. Bet he tortured his own children with cattle prods and plumbing pipes.
February 28th, 2008 at 10:41 amSaint McCain IS the WORST for America - period.
February 28th, 2008 at 10:49 am#46 Maybe suprising, but I agree with you. Along with eliminating most all the entitlement programs, we need to stop any increase in military spending. While we certainly need a military, we already outspend everyone on military spending. We do not need to continue to raise this amount. It needs to stay steady or even shrink.
So we agree that military spending should decline and entitlement spending should decline. I am glad we agree.
February 28th, 2008 at 11:16 amAs someone from Arizona, watching McCain loose the election this fall will cause mixed emotions. On one hand we will not have to put up with him as president but on the other we will won’t be able to get rid of him as US senator.
February 28th, 2008 at 11:35 amI agree with pfl. As an Arizonan I almost feel embarassed to be represented by two of the worst senators–John McCain, and Jon Kyle, and to top it off my concilman is John Shadegg, (another Bush rubber stamp.)
February 28th, 2008 at 12:15 pmThe Best News so far today, but not being reported sufficiently.
The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside the continental United States for generations: Dare their children aspire to grow up and become president? In the case of Senator John McCain of Arizona, the issue is becoming more than a matter of parental daydreaming.
Given that McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone, does that disqualify him from being President?
http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1795
.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:18 pmGotta appeal to that base.
Besides, kids can’t vote; and his constituents are affluent senior citizens (like him), who don’t want taxes spent on other people’s kids.
February 28th, 2008 at 1:29 pmRick - I hadn’t heard McCain tortured his kids with cattle prods and plumbing pipes. Did you hear that on CNN? (Do you think they’d report on that “rumor”, if it got spread around, a bit?)
Something to think about….
February 28th, 2008 at 1:33 pmHe looks exactly like something evil–which he is. Seems like the ‘cons always have that “been with Satan” look about them. If he becomes president, I’m predicting the total collapse of our nation. For one thing the entire world will start closing us out of everything, since they would have observed that we go from worse to irredeemable. Secondly, they’ll total our economy. And I think that if he were to provoke military engagement with Iran, as he’s intimated, we’ll have the conflagration that’ll destroy life on this planet, since I believe the rest of humanity will not stand idly by whilst we pillage and destroy another nation that is no threat to us.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:00 pmKyl and McCain are my senators and I watch their votes carefully.
February 28th, 2008 at 4:55 pmIt’s true that McCain has missed most of the votes since he has been campaigning for president. However, he made it a priority to vote for retro-immunity for the Telecommunications who broke the FISA law and spied on us (AT&T and Verizon come to mind). Lobbyist, Vicki Iseman (Telecommunications Lobbyist), had connections with McCain beginning 8 (eight) years ago and she apparently still does.
#49 - “#46 Maybe suprising, but I agree with you. Along with eliminating most all the entitlement programs, we need to stop any increase in military spending.” Comment by Roger_Roger — February 28, 2008 @ 11:16 am
I never said “eliminate most all entitlement programs”, I said we should have across-the-board spending cuts.
Why do you insist upon spinning others posts?
February 29th, 2008 at 6:47 amWhy does McCain’s health never get investigated? Surely his stand or absence on issues related to children is important, but his health should also be an issue. His VP choice is absolutely as important as his candidacy as we will probably end up with the VP as Pres by the end of a McCain administration! He has had melanoma, after all!
March 1st, 2008 at 8:49 am#54, Do you not see the collapse of this country/big government as part of the plan? Didn’t they pledge this right up front? (’Drown the baby in the bathwater’)
If they bankrupt the country, all the programs they hate will have to go away! Isn’t THAT the point?
(Hope all you conservatives are ready to bring Mom and Pop home to support them!)
March 1st, 2008 at 8:51 amI agree with what azwazzy2(#34), pfl(#50) & grumpie38(#51) have said. As a fellow Arizonan I believe that Arizona has the 2 WORST Senators in the United States. The Repubs believe in supporting the unborn but once the babies are out the the womb,they are on their own.(i.e. S-CHIP) If somehow McCain is elected the next President, it will be a continuation of the Bush policies right down the line. This country can’t afford that! I have NEVER voted for McCain, I don’t intend to start now!!
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:06 pm