Reid Chastises McCain for Not Voting Since April 8th

[tekisui]

With the Senate grinding on this week to a long, painful finish, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saw it fit today to take presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain to task for failing to show up for tough votes -- or any votes -- even as his Democratic opponent has been leaving the campaign trail to attend to Senate business.

McCain has not voted in the Senate since April 8.

"I should mention how glad my fellow Democrats and I were to have our nominee for president here to vote on these important bills. Senator Obama has come to work and taken tough stands. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Senator McCain," Reid groused. "Perhaps taking tough stands on important issues is not part of Senator McCain's campaign strategy. Perhaps he's just too busy on the campaign trail to do his day job."

Obama left the campaign trail this week to vote in favor of warrantless wiretapping legislation he was roundly criticized for supporting, and for legislation preventing a cut in physician reimbursements from Medicare. McCain expressed his opinion -- in favor of the former, against the latter -- but did not cast a ballot.

As of July 7, McCain had missed 61.8 percent of the roll call votes in this Congress, which made him the No. 1 absentee in the Senate (number two was Tim Johnson, who has been recovering from a brain hemorrhage). Obama missed 43.5 percent of the roll call votes.

link: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/11/reid_chastises_mccain_for_not.html

[Hope And Change]

1. I remember when Gov. Crist ran for Governor against Jim Davis...

he attacked Davis for having missed a lot of votes in Congress and it was pretty effective.I think Obama should do the same against McCain.

[tekisui]

3. Hopefully he will. The Senate Session is almost over, so

mcdubya won't have a chance to correct his absenteeism. It should be repeated frequently from here on out.

[liberal N proud]

2. He forgot?

With age comes forgetfulness, so maybe he forgot

[blondeatlast]

4. This has aggravated Arizonans, ESPECIALLY Republican ones, for years (you can imagine that

we Democrats are rather happy about it).

He tends to miss controversial votes too--if it could hurt him in his next Senate run and now the presidency, golly, he's always got a doctor's excuse (probably from Dr. Cindy, the prescription pad forger.

[liberalla]

5. Wow - more than 3 months

I hadn't noticed that. That should be good for something, like in an ad?