McCain voted with Bush 100 percent of the time in 2008.
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By on May 28th, 2008 at 10:35 am
McCain voted with Bush 100 percent of the time in 2008.
According to a CQ analysis of Senate votes on issues President Bush expressed “an explicit, stated opinion,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) voted with President Bush 100 percent of the time in 2008 and 95 percent of the time in 2007. Despite his record, McCain’s supporters try to deny that a McCain presidency would be a third Bush term in terms of pushing similar policies. Recently, the campaign has gone to great lengths to avoid being seen with Bush.
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McSame luvs him some Bush. ;)
Four more years! Four more years!
May 28th, 2008 at 10:36 am/sarc
I think the GOP will try to convince the voting populace that once a maverick, always a maverick. Even when your voting record is most un-mavericklike.
May 28th, 2008 at 10:39 amStep right up, step right up! See the Amazing Maveric Johny McInsane! See him stand up to his own campaign rhetoric and vote, in tireless lock step, with the Administration! What a Maveric! He even defies himself! You can’t beat logic like this folks! Even when he’s wrong, he’s right, ’cause He’s A Maveric!
May 28th, 2008 at 10:40 amImpeach Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution, then get a Real Live Human Being as a Republican candidate and End This Circus!
Abu Ben Hussein Leporello.
If McCain was a real team player, he would have given Bush 110%.
May 28th, 2008 at 10:43 amThese statistics become even clearer when you take into account all the votes that McCant has missed. Seems like he only shows up to vote for Bush policy issues. Maverick indeed!
mav·er·ick (mvr-k, mvrk)
n.
1. An unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother, traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it.
And it looks like the neocons have branded him for their own!
May 28th, 2008 at 10:50 amJohnny Boy! A BushCo straightliner! Say it isn’t so!
May 28th, 2008 at 10:50 amHe can distance himself physically from Bush all he wants, but his record will follow him like a little lost puppy dog.
May 28th, 2008 at 10:51 amMcSame. Two-faced. Liar. GOP extroidinaire. Pathetic excuse for a human being. Need one say more?
May 28th, 2008 at 10:51 amMcIIIrd’s also been wrong on issues 100% of the time.
-Economic recovery
-Emission controls
-Iraq invasion
-GI Bill
-Hagee & Parsley
-Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
-More troops in Iraq
-Student loan sharks
-LIEberman
-Graham cracker
-Rug shopping with military cover
-Patriot Act
-Protect America Act
-Telecom immunity
-Shia / Sunni
-Iraq Al Qaeda
-Malaki
-Bremer
-Petraeus / Crocker
I could go on, but you get the picture. McCain is a washed up, over honored, bad pilot, elderly, wrong is right type of guy.
The ‘Straight Talk Express’ has more bends & curves than a Fox Noise broadcast, and is on track to a dead end in the desert.
May 28th, 2008 at 10:51 amWhat do you expect from McBush?
May 28th, 2008 at 10:52 amMcBush is Bush, just on steroids.
You are what you eat!
May 28th, 2008 at 10:56 amYeah, so what. He’s the kind of guy you’d want at your BBQ.
May 28th, 2008 at 10:57 amHe wants to be a twin but only for the money.(ie., the 30 second airport encounter). Bush has become like something mccain has stepped on and can’t get it off his shoe. The poop is bad but he must wear it, the smell, well that is something else. Likely, he will have to get into some sneekers so he can crawl around the whitehouse undetected.
May 28th, 2008 at 10:58 amBut..but..Mark Levin thinks he’s too librul. We’re in store for socialism under John McCain!
May 28th, 2008 at 11:00 amHe is Bushlite! No maverick here, not at all…
May 28th, 2008 at 11:01 amI didn’t know McCain even voted in 2008.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:04 amNo surprise there with McClone.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:04 amBTW, if any of you have ever heard Mark Levin speak, he’s talks — and regularly yells — like a weenie.
I think it’s amusing how he spouts off against Obama. When Obama makes clear that we’re 5% of the world’s population using 25% of the world’s energy, he goes on this rant about the next president wanting to control how much meat he eats or what temp his thermostat is set to.
What an idiot.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:04 amI keep picturing John Belushi singing ‘Rawhide’ while McCain chases a small calf around a rodeo ring.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:05 amVote for McBomb:
And…
Iranian mothers and Children will be killed
Further violence and instability in the Middle East will be unleashed
Possible wars with Russia, China, Syria and Pakistan,
Gas will be $10+ a gallon.
The eroding infrastructure will continue to crumble.
The Military Industrial Entertainment Complex will continue to thrive.
More right wing appointees to the Supreme Court is likely.
The Perpetual War Society will continue with the Military contractors raking in the dough.
The Women’s Right to Choose for an Abortion will disappear.
A likely Federal Amendment to Ban Gay Marriage.
The Middle Class in America will continue to dissapear.
We will be that further way from exposing the truth about 9/11.
Coninued taxpayer responsibility for more wars and more wars.
And we’ll continue to pay for KBR, Haliburton, Bechtel, Blackwater.
Our moral standing will continue to plummet with human rights abuses worldwide. (secret prisons)
And…
Say goodbye “officially” to the Constitution and The Bill of Rights
Seniors citizens will continue to have to choose between a full dose of medication or food
Bush’s “Have Mores” will continue to destroy what’s left of the middle class.
More spying: The US will officially become a closed society :
welcome to the Fascist States of America.
There won’t be any manufacturing left in this country. (not that there is much now)
Sales from Viagra will soar.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:06 am“If the peoplewere ever to find out what we have done,we would be chased down the streets and lynched”
George Bush, cited in the June, 1992 Sarah McClendon Newsletter
May 28th, 2008 at 11:08 amWay to be a maverick, McChimpy.
NOT.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:10 amcan there be any doubts now about McPutz being another Bush? i.e.- more of the same. more wars, more tax cuts for the filthy rich, dissing veterans, ….and on, and on, and on….
May 28th, 2008 at 11:11 amThis is no suprise for anyone who has been following MyCane. However, the issue is HOW can anyone believe the MSM’s spin labeling him as a “maverick”?
May 28th, 2008 at 11:12 amWhen two people agree 100 percent of the time, it makes one of them irrelevant. It would be nice if the media would use this fact instead of empty-headed rhetoric like “Maverick.”
May 28th, 2008 at 11:14 amJohn McLobbyistsBestFriend
He’s as much a “Maverick” as Chimpy is an intellectual ……..
May 28th, 2008 at 11:17 am100% agreement, huh? So that’s what it takes to be a Maverick™ these days?
May 28th, 2008 at 11:18 amMcFlipflop went through the transition from “maverick” to “steer” quite a few years ago. Maybe “they” were just too small for some people to notice the current difference yet.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:20 amIf you liked Bush, you’ll love McCain.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:21 am100% wrong 100% of the time.
Ya gotta love his consistency…
May 28th, 2008 at 11:23 amI do care to notice the right-wing beacon of strength, the saying that keeps them fighting for power over the people: “The glass is half-full — of blood”
May 28th, 2008 at 11:27 ammaverick…… my ass. he wasn’t the only maverick in vietnam. last time i checked there were thousands and thousands died over another phony war. this prick is no more special than my good vietnam vet friend that has suffered far more extensive injuries than this peckerwood.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:28 amMcIIIrd, BushitCoIII. One and the same.
Please do EVERYTHING in your power to prevent this disaster from occuring.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:30 amhe is such a maverick he has voted against .5% raise for military and vets. he conveniently missed the vote on the gi bill to attend a swanky dinner in cali but voiced his vote NO because all of this is to generous. that prick doesn’t deserve comp/pen from the military for throwing his fellow mavericks under the bus.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:31 amReminder: Not every Democrat is in favor of a precipitous withdrawel from Iraq. No one wants more US troops to lay down their lives, but it is a fact that the surge in American forces has had a positive effect in bringing down the violence. McCain has certainly pandered to the conservative base of the Republican party throughout the nomination process, but Barack has done the same thing with regard to the anti-war base of the Democrats. Chalk that up to the nasty realities of securing one’s party nomination. In truth, where Barack stands on a great deal of foreign policy issues (Iran in particular) is quite cloudy, or shall I say windy as it seems to change every day. McCain’s clarity (on this issue) will serve him well with centrists and independents.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:33 amNettles: the “surge” was not responsible for the reduction in violence, the order to stand down by militia leader was
the violence increased again as soon as they rescinded the order.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:35 amNettles Says:
How many people do you really think you fool by calling yourself a Democrat and then posting crap like :”McCain’s clarity (on this issue) will serve him well with centrists and independents.”?
Either you are an idiot or you think we are.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:38 amNettles,
While we may not know Obama’s position on everything with absolute clarity, we do know McCain’s. It is the same as Bush’s. There is no difference, and there never was. McCain has not been pandering to the base, he has followed Bush lockstep the entire time he has been in office. So, while I may not know Obama’s exact positions on the economy, immigration, etc., I don’t want four more years of Bush. That is what McCain offers - four more years of Bush and an attack on Iran.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:42 amNettles Says:
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Reminder: Not every Democrat is in favor of a precipitous withdrawel from Iraq. No one wants more US troops to lay down their lives, but it is a fact that the surge in American forces has had a positive effect in bringing down the violence. McCain has certainly pandered to the conservative base of the Republican party throughout the nomination process, but Barack has done the same thing with regard to the anti-war base of the Democrats. Chalk that up to the nasty realities of securing one’s party nomination. In truth, where Barack stands on a great deal of foreign policy issues (Iran in particular) is quite cloudy, or shall I say windy as it seems to change every day. McCain’s clarity (on this issue) will serve him well with centrists and independents.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Wanna’ know the difference ?
Obama has been against Chimpy’s Illegal and Idiotic Iraq Adventure since its inception ; McLobbyistsBestFriend has been all for it , and behind every completely inaccurate “plan”.
Also , most Americans believe thatwe need to engage in discussions with those who our perceived “enemies” ; McBush’s reliance on more “cowboy diplomacy” is something the majority of American people are sick of.
Your assessments of “moderates” and “independents” being drawn to McStupid are completely erroneous and close to laughable………
May 28th, 2008 at 11:44 amAnyone who doesn’t think that the NeoCons will steal this election so Cheney can remain in power is naive.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:45 amNettles Says:
Reminder: Not every Democrat is in favor of a precipitous withdrawel from Iraq.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:33 am
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That’s because a “precipitous withdrawel from Iraq” is a physical impossibility made up by conservative bloviators as a straw man to scare the electorate into prolonging the war indefinitely. Unless the military suddenly acquires the technology to instantly teleport all our troops, contractors, vehicles, and equipment out of Iraq, it is physically impossible to “precipitously withdraw.”
May 28th, 2008 at 11:49 amNettles=24%er=concern troll=don’t waste your time: you can’t fix stupid
May 28th, 2008 at 11:49 amThomasMc Says:
Anyone who doesn’t think that the NeoCons will steal this election so Cheney can remain in power is naive.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:45 am
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“Think?” The upcoming theft of the 2008 election has already been widely reported.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:51 amWayne, we’re going to see many more “democrats” dispatched here from the RNC. ‘Nettles’ is a neocon who wants to see the election handed to McCain. Piece of shit.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:53 amNettles Says:but it is a fact that the surge in American forces has had a positive effect in bringing down the violence.
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wasn’t it just last month or two back we seen one of the deadliest months. let’s not forget their talking about specific pockets of violence. what about the uprise violence to find the boogie man osama in afghan? it’s down in one area because our forces litter the grounds where violence is up due to pulling troops from one to another spot. this is a complete joke and you have NOOOOOO clue.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:55 ammisshusseinmolly Says:
I think the GOP will try to convince the voting populace that once a maverick, always a maverick. Even when your voting record is most un-mavericklike.
And they will undoubtedly succeed. It takes a lot of talent to get 50% of the vote when you represent only 2% of the the population.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:11 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
100% agreement, huh? So that’s what it takes to be a Maverick™?
Well, Bart and Brett nearly always agreed with each other.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:15 pmRemind all your friends about this every goddamned day.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:15 pmI heard Steph Miller use my Grampy McSame this morning on the radio…hehe.
Grampy McSame says - My friends back in the day we all did as we were told, none of the this free thinking stuff, oh no, if you were a free thinker we would wrap those types in a rug and throw them in a black berry patch, they would think twice about not thinking like the rest of us, and when I would vote, I would take my rock and pound it once, not twice, just once, just like the leader, we all knew the leader is always right, so that makes thinking easy, just pound your rock like our leader, but then a new leader challenged him to a pound off, oh dear what a mess that was…speaking of messes, I think I just sat in a bucket of warm gravy, mmm, warm.
Well Grampy, considering that EVERYTHING Bush has done has been wrong, you sure aren’t helping by voting how the Chimp told you to vote.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:30 pmAwesome, Buckie!! :o)
May 28th, 2008 at 12:37 pmHeh. Buskie, you’re amazing. :D
May 28th, 2008 at 1:27 pmHow many people do you really think you fool by calling yourself a Democrat and then posting crap like :”McCain’s clarity (on this issue) will serve him well
Let me be clear: I have never pretended to be a Democrat, but just because I am (proudly) to the right of the Lyndon LaRouches and the Ramsey Clarks of the world does not make me a Republican either. Forgive me for being out of lock-step w/ the TP company line. Wanna know what’s worse than a neocon? A whiny Casper Milqtoast conformist who can’t swallow a dissenting point of view, irregardless of pragmatism.
May 28th, 2008 at 1:46 pmBush’s creepy uncle John has some ’splainin to do. Still, I worry that the repug machine will some how get him in office, be it rigged elections, discounting critical votes, or appealing to bush’s conservative supreme court again.
May 28th, 2008 at 2:26 pmSo McSame is the right description after all.
May 28th, 2008 at 7:21 pmnettles, two things: since when did the conservatives become the “non” -conformists? I must have been busy watching re-runs of politically incorrect while this sea change occurred and more bemusedly- if you’re (proudly) to the right of Larouche, et.al.,does this mean you”re an anarchist?
June 4th, 2008 at 11:48 pmnettles, i almost forgot-”irregardless” is a redundancy.Drop the i and r and at least appear cogent
June 4th, 2008 at 11:53 pm