Oh my yes.....can't wait to see THAT missed vote in a general election campaign hahahahah.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

President Barack Obama

That was a mistake.

Nice to see Clinton and Obama working as a team.
See? We can all get along!

McSame: I support the troops by word, but not deed. Just like my good friend, President Bush.

My friends, I see a campaign commercial in the making. Along with endless repetitions of this, my friends.

Starting to like this Webb guy...

CIC threshold!

Folks:

Every Democrat, except Senator Kennedy, because of his medical leave, voted to support the Troops.

Here is a list of all the Republicans who voted aginst the Troops or abstained like McBushCain The Cowardly Maverick.

Target all these Republican Senators when theycome up for re-election. They all hate The Troops.
Their vote shows how much they hate our brave Troops.

I bet those Troop hating bastards were all wearing
their lapel flagpins as they cast their Troop hating votes.
Hound those traitors from office. Here are the names of all those Anti Troops cretins.

NAYs ---22
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lugar (R-IN)
McConnell (R-KY)
Sessions (R-AL)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Not Voting - 3
Coburn (R-OK)
Kennedy (D-MA) Ted supported the bill, all the way.
McCain (R-AZ)

Forgive my ignorance -- but can senators vote by proxy? Have someone else push the button?

Straight talk maverick.

Here's McCain's response to Barack Obama courtesy of Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic:

Here's Sen. John McCain, who was one of only three senators not to vote on the bill today:

"It is typical, but no less offensive that Senator Obama uses the Senate floor to take cheap shots at an opponent and easy advantage of an issue he has less than zero understanding of. Let me say first in response to Senator Obama, running for President is different than serving as President. The office comes with responsibilities so serious that the occupant can't always take the politically easy route without hurting the country he is sworn to defend. Unlike Senator Obama, my admiration, respect and deep gratitude for America's veterans is something more than a convenient campaign pledge. I think I have earned the right to make that claim.

"When I was five years old, a car pulled up in front of our house in New London, Connecticut, and a Navy officer rolled down the window, and shouted at my father that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. My father immediately left for the submarine base where he was stationed. I rarely saw him again for four years. My grandfather, who commanded the fast carrier task force under Admiral Halsey, came home from the war exhausted from the burdens he had borne, and died the next day. I grew up in the Navy; served for twenty-two years as a naval officer; and, like Senator Webb, personally experienced the terrible costs war imposes on the veteran. The friendships I formed in war remain among the closest relationships in my life. The Navy is still the world I know best and love most. In Vietnam, where I formed the closest friendships of my life, some of those friends never came home to the country they loved so well .

"But I am running for the office of Commander-in-Chief. That is the highest privilege in this country, and it imposes the greatest responsibilities. It would be easier politically for me to have joined Senator Webb in offering his legislation. More importantly, I feel just as he does, that we owe veterans the respect and generosity of a great nation because no matter how generously we show our gratitude it will never compensate them fully for all the sacrifices they have borne on our behalf.

"Senators Graham, Burr and I have offered legislation that would provide veterans with a substantial increase in educational benefits. The bill we have sponsored would increase monthly education benefits to $1500; eliminate the $1200 enrollment fee; and offer a $1000 annually for books and supplies. Importantly, we would allow veterans to transfer those benefits to their spouses or dependent children or use a part of them to pay down existing student loans. We also increase benefits to the Guard and Reserve, and even more generously to those who serve in the Selected Reserve.

"I know that my friend and fellow veteran, Senator Jim Webb, an honorable man who takes his responsibility to veterans very seriously, has offered legislation with very generous benefits. I respect and admire his position, and I would never suggest that he has anything other than the best of intentions to honor the service of deserving veterans. Both Senator Webb and I are united in our deep appreciation for the men and women who risk their lives so that the rest of us may be secure in our freedom. And I take a backseat to no one in my affection, respect and devotion to veterans. And I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did.

"The most important difference between our two approaches is that Senator Webb offers veterans who served one enlistment the same benefits as those offered veterans who have re-enlisted several times. Our bill has a sliding scale that offers generous benefits to all veterans, but increases those benefits according to the veteran's length of service. I think it is important to do that because, otherwise, we will encourage more people to leave the military after they have completed one enlistment. At a time when the United States military is fighting in two wars, and as we finally are beginning the long overdue and very urgent necessity of increasing the size of the Army and Marine Corps, one study estimates that Senator Webb's bill will reduce retention rates by 16%.

"Most worrying to me, is that by hurting retention we will reduce the numbers of men and women who we train to become the backbone of all the services, the noncommissioned officer. In my life, I have learned more from noncommissioned officers I have known and served with than anyone else outside my family. And in combat, no one is more important to their soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen, and to the officers who command them, than the sergeant and petty officer. They are very hard to replace. Encouraging people not to choose to become noncommissioned officers would hurt the military and our country very badly. As I said, the office of President, which I am seeking, is a great honor, indeed, but it imposes serious responsibilities. How faithfully the President discharges those responsibilities will determine whether he or she deserves the honor. I can only tell you I intend to deserve the honor if I am fo rtunate to receive it, even if it means I must take politically unpopular positions at times and disagree with people for whom I have the highest respect and affection.

"Perhaps, if Senator Obama would take the time and trouble to understand this issue he would learn to debate an honest disagreement respectfully. But, as he always does, he prefers impugning the motives of his opponent, and exploiting a thoughtful difference of opinion to advance his own ambitions. If that is how he would behave as President, the country would regret his election."

So Senator George W. McCain voted "ABSENT"? Brilliant!

...MINDED

Weaselly wimp.

Really, what could they have been thinking? It would have been better to show up and make a big stink about it and vote no, but to just blow it off, wow, defies logic.

What's going to make this even better is when President Bush tries to veto it and it becomes the Bush/McCain anti-troop agenda.

Ahhh, and my birthday isn't for three more weeks.

Folks: This is a huge game changer, not just for the Presidency, but for sweeping many more Republicans out of the US Senate. Keep their names in the spotlights for the next four years. We can oust them based on their votes against The Troops. The wore lapel flagpins as the cast their votes against our brave Troops.

Every Democrat, except Senator Kennedy, because of his medical leave, voted to support the Troops.

Here is a list of all the Republicans who voted aginst the Troops or abstained like McBushCain The Cowardly Maverick.

Target all these Republican Senators when they come up for re-election. They all hate The Troops.
Their vote shows how much they hate our brave Troops.

I bet those Troop hating bastards were all wearing
their lapel flagpins as they cast their Troop hating votes.
Hound those traitors from office. Here are the names of all those Anti Troops cretins.

NAYs ---22
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lugar (R-IN)
McConnell (R-KY)
Sessions (R-AL)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Not Voting - 3
Coburn (R-OK)
Kennedy (D-MA) Ted supported the bill, all the way.
McCain (R-AZ)

Boy did he fuck himself up - 75 to 22? O lawd!

The Democrats have more style than a barber shop, call the cops!

The Republicans are drilling holes in the SS Titanic so it will sink faster.

LOL!!!

He was against it before he skipped it

Totally and shamelessly OT - it's very humid here the last few days and one of my double doors has swelled and any time it's opened or closed, there is an ear-splitting shriek from where the top of one wooden door scrapes on the top of the other wooden door.

Will 3-in-1 oil solve that, or do I need something else?

(you were warned about this being OT)

If it is door-on-door start by tightenintg the screws in the top hinge of each door.

or tightening :)

This was a disgrace.