Friday, May 18, 2007

McCain's A Tough Talker, But Can He Show Up?

John McCain has been so busy on the campaign trail desperately fishing for votes and dollars, he forgot that he was still a United States Senator. See John, when you are in the Senate there are these things called votes and the presence of a Senator is expecting when a vote is called. McCain should be smart enough to know this, but according to his voting record, it seems he just doesn't care.

From The Hill:

While McCain has missed four of 14 Senate roll calls on the war this year, other presidential candidates have managed their schedules around the high-profile votes.

Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), Joseph Biden (D-Del.), Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) voted on each of the 14 measures.

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McCain’s campaign said the rigorous travel schedule necessary when running for the White House makes it extremely difficult to be voting all the time in Washington.

“Sen. McCain has traveled the country speaking to the importance of winning in Iraq and clearly stated that we must give the new strategy a chance to succeed because the consequences of failure would be too damaging to our nation,” Diaz said. “Regrettably, it is impossible for a presidential candidate to avoid missing votes, but Sen. McCain has not missed a vote where his vote would have affected the outcome, and he will make every effort to be in the Senate on the occasions when it would.”

No Mr. Diaz, that is incorrect on two levels. First of all the other Senators running for President have made it to Washington to record their votes on this crucial issue. If they can do it, so can you. What makes you think you are so special, eh?

Second of all, who cares if you are a tiebreaker or not. Registering your vote shows how you truly feel about all the hot air that comes out of your mouth on the campaign trail. Voters should be able to hear and see you vote for failed policies such as George Bush's "Stay The Course" in Iraq. It is time to get off your high horse and do the people's business.