McCain to skip vote on pay discrimination.
By on Apr 23rd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
McCain to skip vote on pay discrimination.
Today, the Senate plans to take up the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, “rectifying the Supreme Court decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear that made it much harder for women and other workers to pursue pay discrimination claims.” While Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Barack Obama (D-IL) are expected to return from the campaign trail to Washington to vote for this bill, Politico reports that McCain will skip the vote. McCain has missed more Senate votes than any other presidential candidate.
Update MSNBC's First Read points out that McCain has missed "a staggering 58 percent" of 110th Congress votes. "McCain has now missed more votes than Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota, who suffered a brain hemorrhage in December 2006 and was unable to return to the Senate until fall of last year. McCain has now missed nine votes more than Johnson."
Update The Senate failed to get the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster and compel a floor vote on this bill.
The final vote was 56-42. (Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid switched his vote for procedural reasons and plans to bring the legislation to the floor again in the future.)
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As if McStupid votes in a reasonable way to begin with ?
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:42 pmMcCain will skip the vote. McCain has missed more Senate votes than any other presidential candidate.
This includes Senator Tim Johnson who was on his sickbed for, what, 8 months?
McCain’s voting record is disgraceful. I also think it is an indication of his stamina. He’s too old to be getting on a plane to fly back to Washington to make an important vote.
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:43 pmIt helps that he doesn’t give a damn about equal pay, or womens’ rights in general. When the vote’s important to HIM, he shows up.
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:46 pmMcSame could careless about equal pay or equal healthcare, he got his, you can just go “F” yourself as far as he is concerned.
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:53 pmAs far as I’m concerned, skipping this vote means he’s FOR this – he just doesn’t want to have to explain why he voted for it.
Or against it, for that matter, the limpdick.
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:57 pmWhen somebody is running for president, I can understand why their attention to their day job can fall by the wayside.
When that someone is a Senator, I don’t expect them to be present for every single vote (resolutions to honor fishermen or bills expected to pass easily can be skipped), but I DO expect them to show up and vote one way or the other on any bill of substance where the vote is expected to be even sort of close.
This bill is an important one, and is necessary to right an absurd wrong. All three major candidates for president are Senators. The two who are in the deepest competition can manage to break away from the race to vote. Why can’t McCain, who’s basically coasting until he gets an opponent?
Unless this bill is expected to pass 98-2 or something, McCain really needs to get his butt up to Capitol Hill and support this.
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:57 pmHe treats pay discrimination for women the same as the GI Bill completely insignificant. That is how much we mean to John McCain. All in a days work for a Republican.
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:58 pmI think I got that backwards. He’s against it.
Or whatever. :o/ Pass the coffee!
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:59 pmI bet he’d schlep his wrinkly old a$$ to D.C. if there were impending votes on capital gains or estate taxes. Or any other tax cuts.
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:59 pmOoooh, he was just having a senior moment. Better stop giving the senile old coot a hard time, or you’ll piss him off.
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:00 pmIf he voted he’d vote against it that’s why he’s not voting. He doesn’t want that vote following him on the campaign trail.
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:03 pmAre we sure he doesn’t have some sort of brain injury as well?
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:09 pmSo are we thinking he’ll use brain damage as an excuse for all of his crazy flip-flopping? Poor Grampy McCain.
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:14 pmWow! McCain’s a regular Dan Quayle who set a record during his “freshman” year! Looks like McBush will be the next AWOL.
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:23 pmIf he doesn’t fulfill his responsibilites and obligations as a Sentor why would anyone expect him to fulfill the obligations and reponsibilites of a President. The Democratic
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:35 pmcandidates should make a BIG issue of this. Oh wait…they can’t…press won’t cover it..
Actually, Sparks, I think it’s a matter of glass houses. The Dems can’t ding him for not showing up for votes, because they’ve both done it, repeatedly.
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:02 pmLet’s see… First, Grampa McSame apologized to minorities in Memphis for not voting for MLK hoilday. Then, he went to sniff out for votes from black voters in south Philly. Now, he disses the vote for pay discrimination. Heckava job, John.
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:44 pmMcCain has a worse record than a guy who had a near-fatal brain hemorrhage! That’s a campaign note for the Dems!
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:52 pmPlease check back at the Helen Thomas thread.
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:00 pmRRRW – that is a very handy list. A lot to print for reference. Readers may want to copy and save it to their hard drive.
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:39 pmMcCain is still looking for blacks in South Philly. He wants to apologize for not voting for the 1990 Civil Rights Act and voting against a Holiday for Dr. King. If McCain had it his way all the immigrants would be sent home and blacks would be doing their jobs. Look for Obama to move out of the Country as he wasn’t raised that way in Hawaii. He was told about the hardships of Black Americans from Slavery to the passing of the Civil Rights Bill by his Minister. His Father isn’t an American he’s an African from Africa. His Mother didn’t deal with the problems of other races in the USA.
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:34 pmNow maybe McCain could give him a history lesson on America from 1937 to 1973 as Obama came back to the US when he was 12 years old.