McCain doesn't show up to vote on GI Bill

[cbc5g]

6 Senators, Republicans, voted No.

2 Senators didn't show up...Ted Kennedy who is battling against brain cancer and ... John McCain

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-laporte/senate-passes-21st-centur_b_109519.html

In an overwhelming show of support for our nation's veterans Thursday evening, 92 U.S. Senators voted in favor of the 21st Century GI Bill; also known as the Post 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act. Perplexingly, 6 Republican Senators opposed the measure by voting "nay". There were only two Senators who were not present for the vote. One, Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy, is battling for his life against brain cancer after undergoing surgery to remove a malignant glioma. The other, Sen. John McCain, actually had the gall NOT to show up for the vote. He claims to support the 21st Century GI Bill, but never endorsed the bill in the Senate; even going as far as introducing a competing GI Bill that would have left the average veteran with $20,000 in student loans. It is certainly not the kind of behavior one would expect of a candidate for the United State Presidency, especially one who is a veteran himself.


Won't you support the troops, John McCain?

[Wickerman]

1. long weekend? n/t

[blondeatlast]

5. Nah, he and Cindy's "date day (he's too tired for anything but the Earlybird Special

for "date night."

That's why pretty lobbyists are so handy, they keep the same hours he does.

[polichick]

2. I hope MoveOn makes an ad about it!

[cbc5g]

3. I think they shut down their 527 and have moved their efforts to getting out the money for Obama

So he can centralize his message..he asked them to.

[polichick]

4. I thought they were going to make ads, but pay for them using small donor contributions.

[skooooo]

6. Damn, get off McCain's back!!!

He doesn't work weekends, and obviously he needed to take Friday off as well!!!!!

:rofl:

[blondeatlast]

7. Today, I may watch the m$m just for the spectacle of seeing them

fall all over each other trying to excuse this.

Can we please not let this ass take the WH?