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- inactive, on 08/14/2008, -3/+51Don't worry, it was just the senility.
He'll get better when he's president. - jodimcmullen, on 08/14/2008, -7/+32He is running that ad here in Oklahoma about how he is all for alternative and renewable power. I just get furious every time I see it. I've never seen an ad that I feel is such a flagrant lie before. Or maybe it's just the first time I knew it was a lie....
- Rixar13, on 08/14/2008, -2/+20McCain hasn't cast a vote in the Senate of over 4 months.
- huxleyan, on 08/14/2008, -2/+19Submitted this two days ago.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Eight_Strikes_an ...
Digg pisses me off. - MrTito, on 08/15/2008, -0/+16John McCain is such a ***** hack. While he was out skipping this vote for the eighth time, this is what he was saying to a crowd in Aurora, Colorado that very day:
"Senator Obama has said every domestic energy source has a problem. I believe every energy source needs to be part of the solution.
We need to develop new alternative energies like wind, solar, tide, and biofuels, but we also have to develop more existing energies like nuclear power and clean coal. And we need to stop sending $700 billion a year to countries that don't like us very much. Some of that money ends up in the hands of terrorist organizations."
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec08 ...
Really, John? Why didn't you get your ass back to D.C. to vote for this bill then? ***** McCain and his hollow, transparent policies. - inactive, on 08/14/2008, -3/+17It's quite common for presidential candidates to miss votes. McCain's larger cumulative number is due to the fact that he's been involved in multiple campaigns. Obama's high percentage is because of one campaign despite a short term in the Senate. Exceedingly poor relative to peers is relative in itself, as most of their peers have not run for president.
- dld0531, on 08/14/2008, -8/+20Tom Friedman is one of the best journalists to cover the environment and renewable energies...People should really listen to him.
- TrueXtremeIcon, on 08/15/2008, -1/+9"And THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN is a tard beyond all tards. He wouldnt know jouralism if it crawled up his butt, played the trumpet, curled up and died."
That's why you're ranting on Digg while he has an Op-Ed published in the top newspaper in America. - mecharabbit, on 08/15/2008, -0/+8One Ginseng tablet a day, and he'll be as lucid as Ronald Reagan. Oh wait, bad example...
- Smsores, on 08/15/2008, -0/+8The man has been in the senate for over 20 years, the oil lobbiest has been imprinted in his brains. If he becomes president kiss re-newable energies good bye just like solar energy got the boot when Reagan became president. Plus, the man is to old he doesn't understand these things anyway; for crist sakes he can't even google himself!
- pintomp3, on 08/14/2008, -5/+12it's ironic that mccain tells the congress to "get back to work" when he has missed more votes than any other senator:
# Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
* Representing: Arizona
* Votes: 407 votes missed (63.8%), 231 votes cast
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/se ... - bjornski, on 08/15/2008, -0/+7C'mon, King.
I give PolishLogic some gruff now and then myself, but your stooping to anal sex references is just pathetic.
If you're going to argue with him, at least stay on topic and don't drop down to personal insults.
It makes you look stupid and petty. - jbella, on 08/15/2008, -0/+5Michelle Malkin has not written a great piece about anything.
I might be outraged if you could demonstrate to me that wind power is somehow:
1) Bad for the environment
2) Bad for our energy independence
3) Not a workable form of energy production
4) Not a more sustainable source of energy than fossil fuels
One might rightly argue that Nancy Pelosi is investing her own money in a technology that will only strengthen america by providing cheap, renewable energy as well as high paying jobs. - jbella, on 08/15/2008, -0/+5Really? You are sitting there in front of your computer connected to the internet and you can't find that one simple fact?
Total Votes: 638
John McCain missed 407 (63.8%)
Barack Obama missed 290 (45.5%)
So to answer your question.. Obama missed a lot of votes.. but not nearly as many as McCain. - bjornski, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4It was almost as funny as Bush going to spend a few days at the Olympics, coming home to rebuke Congress for going on vacation, and then heading off to Crawford.
- paryal23, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4Did you read the piece? It will tell you that Obama has voted for the solar and wind credits 3 times
- JinnRikki, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4"How stupid can we be?"
Bush's been in office 8 *****' years, do you really have to ask that question? - dazparkour, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4Remembering also that since they count as no votes - some people miss votes on purpose instead of voting no - because they don't care about the issue.
The problem here is McCain says that he cares and does not vote! - hockeyplayer66, on 08/15/2008, -1/+5I wish more Digg users would read the articles before making criticisms.
The article discusses McCain missing all 8 votes, not just one. However, Obama only made three, of which the author is also critical.
I could restate the whole article, but then, you could click on the link and read it too. - monsieurginger, on 08/15/2008, -2/+6Thomas Friedman is my favorite columnist ever. I agree with about everything he writes.
- MorganMghee, on 08/14/2008, -4/+8Barack Obama missed 287 of 1268 votes (23%) since Jan 6, 2005 (Exceedingly Poor relative to peers).
Statistic: John McCain missed 719 of 4085 votes (18%) since Feb 4, 1993 (Exceedingly Poor relative to peers). - bjornski, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3He could, but what would he do?
Recess appointments? Unilateral agreements? - inactive, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3"the craftiest legislation to assure we have a steady stream of fresh meat coming into the military for us to use how we'd like."
You have a problem with this now? - JinnRikki, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3Michelle Malkin, uck..I just threw up in my mouth a lit....no, a lot.
- bjornski, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3The one mentioned in the article? S. 3335?
Are you Google impaired?
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:udGntOLbM1UJ: ...
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110 ...
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3335/show
http://dpc.senate.gov/dpc-new.cfm?doc_name=lb-110- ...
C'mon, Crackberri. Even YOU can use "the Google". - m8ymerc1, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2A great way to fix all these tax break problems for the renewable energy folks is to come together and form there own group. A group of private financiers/ Bankers open their own banks and investment firms and make the money themselves. All the folks who believe in this can now open their own bank accounts, 401K's and such with them.
I'm confusing myself now... but you get what I mean.
I would open an account and all if the profits they made went strictly to those causes and not just make their (bankers) pockets fatter. - bjornski, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2Tho your reply puzzles me, PL.
"if that happened...."
You mean it hasn't?
/joking - bjornski, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2And for parity, here's the Obama list from the same source and dates.
Missed Votes
Barack Obama has missed 290 votes (45.5%) during the current Congress.
Voting with Party
Barack Obama has voted with a majority of his Democratic colleagues 96.0% of the time during the current Congress.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/member ... - inactive, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2"Global war on terror you know, that college education can wait."
What are you babbling about again? All this focus on the "intent" of the bills smells like a pathetic attempt to deflect attention away from the fact that your boy wanted to slash education benefits for men who are fighting and dying for our freedoms. How do you justify what was widely (and correctly) perceived by the vast majority of the troops as a massive dick move by John McCain?
I love it when armchair pussies like you try to talk like you have the country's best interests in mind while you tongue the asses of politicians who take a massive dump on the faces of people who volunteered to serve this country. I can't tell you how happy it makes me to see uniformed men in our armed forces calling you on yout ***** and revealing you for the ***** toads you people really are. - bjornski, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2Ah, here we go.
Missed Votes
John McCain has missed 407 votes (63.8%) during the current Congress.
Voting with Party
John McCain has voted with a majority of his Republican colleagues 88.3% of the time during the current Congress. This percentage does not include votes in which McCain did not vote.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/member ...
Amazing how you can skew the numbers when you add another 12 years to the count. You know, back to when he DID show up for work. - FairDinkumMate, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1He failed to vote for this 8 TIMES jabberwolf! Even ignoring your other right-wing propoganda, let's look at the one factual item you referred to - Pelosi & Obama suggesting they might back the group of 10 proposal of a trade off.
The group of 10 proposal came out what, 4 or 5 weeks ago. Obama & Pelosi published their tentative support 3 or 4 weeks ago? Are you really suggesting that this bill has come up to be voted on 8 times in the last 3 or 4 weeks, or are you just lying & obfuscating to support your ideological position as usual? - citizenkane2357, on 08/14/2008, -8/+9Obama actually shows up to vote. It's not the same as missing a vote on the freaking new GI Bill.
- MorganMghee, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1bjornski, glad you found the info you were looking for. I pulled those numbers from govtrack.us, I think you can separate out the records by congress, but I'm not sure and you've already found similar info so I won't try. They do have an interesting date/vote chart available there though, it might be interesting to pinpoint exactly where 'the work' was done. I glanced at mccains, and it seemed like there were huge peaks and valleys of rush to work and no work at all.
- mrzeero, on 08/15/2008, -1/+2This is not accidental anymore. The current administration wants Obama to win. All of the ***** coming down the pipe will be blamed on the president that is in office. Not the people that created the coming mess. It will be 200 years before another none white male christian will elected to the office of president. Four years is nothing. They have been orchestrating this for the last 30 years.
- FairDinkumMate, on 08/15/2008, -1/+2I shouldn't even respond to your ideological rant but can't help myself.
Why do you think the rest of the developed world have vehicle fleets twice as efficient as the US? Free market, subsidies or a tax on oil to encourage consumption?
What are the long term impacts(30+ yeasr in most countries) on their economies? Quite negligible & un-noticed, until now! Now the tax regime that encouraged more fuel efficiency seems a stroke of genius as the US struggles with a highly oil dependent infrastructure & high global prices, whilst other governments have the option(which may are considering) of winding back the oil taxes slightly to reduce the impact of rising prices even further.
This old argument (put forward & paid for by the oil companies for 30 years!) of forcing US consumers to pay more at the pump is bad for our economy has been proven in the last 2 years to be a phenomenal strawman. Subsidizing big oil, failing to introduce improved CAFE standards and doing nothing else to improve fuel efficiency in the US has left the entire economy in a position of weakness as it is held hostage to a product controlled by (often unfriendly) foreign interests. - inactive, on 08/15/2008, -1/+2@bjornski
The only difference being, Bush can still work (if he choses to) on vacation. Congress can't accomplish a thing on vacation.
Other than that, I'd agree with you that his comments were in poor form. - ravenswing2, on 08/15/2008, -1/+2Why don't we just require OUR representatives to pass a law that says any member of Congress who wants to campaign for a better job (Rep to Senator; or Senator/Rep to President) must first resign his or her present position? The only employer in the country that keeps people who are ignoring their job while looking for a better one is the U.S. Taxpayer. How stupid can we be?
- bjornski, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1Morgan, can you repost the same example using similar dates?
I mean, if you're going to go back to 2005 for Obama, let's see one on McCain that goes back to 2005 also, not 1993. - mistatwista, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1the way I see it thats called upper management(make everyone else do your work).
- southwestnut, on 08/15/2008, -4/+4a whole lot, just remember that this site does not post things that might harm the camp. of the "grand saviour" that is obama. remember that obama is swiss cheese on most issues, lots of lip service and nothing to back it up.
to those who WILL bury this, you are a bunch of diggers :>) - inactive, on 08/15/2008, -2/+2@stagmire
In terms of the GI Bill, McCain's proposal was much more forthcoming in its intent. Not to mention much more fiscally responsible for a department that is criticized relentlessly in terms of spending.
The people that hailed Webb's bill never stopped to realize that it does exactly what they accuse the military of now. Namely offers a great smoke and mirrors incentive to get people to enlist.You get them, then you stop-loss them. Global war on terror you know, that college education can wait. - shodgden, on 08/16/2008, -0/+0YEAH...Pass the pain on down to the grandkids. It's the American way.
- warriormonk, on 08/17/2008, -0/+0Facts are facts, regardless of who reports them. If you don't believe them simply b/c Malkin reported them then verify them yourself. By the way, it's not just Malkin who is writing about the Pelosi / Pickens scam, but let's move on shall we?
Here is what you asked for: http://www.ncpa.org/prs/tst/20040501hsburnett.htm, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/e ...
As far as your last comment, you do have a point, so I will attempt to rebut. The practice of politicians (on all sides) investing and disinvesting in private enterprises has always been a problem b/c it calls into question their independence. For example, judges are supposed to recuse themselves if there is a conflict of interest, auditors are prohibited from owning stock in the clients the audit, etc. However Congress has conveniently exempted themselves from such restrictions and that's a problem.
Therefore when you have Al Gore investing heavily in carbon credit businesses, Nancy Pelosi investing in wind power, don't you think it's fair to question their motives? To put it another way, why not let the market determine the success or failure of an enterprise instead of having politicians invest not only their own money but ours too (in the form of gov't subsidies)? - muckemuck, on 08/15/2008, -2/+2What's the difference between "Democratic *****" and Republican *****? .. nothing. Both parties are extending the federal government on a massive scale and running up the national debt at a rate never seen before.
Boot them all out.
Vote third party.
Vote against the incumbents. - twoheadedboy00, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1that's because you like overly simplified, ahistorical analysis of political economy.
- inactive, on 08/14/2008, -7/+6Why bother....it's the New York Times.
I assume you give Obama a pass on his ***** job attendance, then? - mecharabbit, on 08/15/2008, -3/+2That's it. John and Barack, we're taking away your buses and jets until you learn to use them more responsibly.
- bobh1234, on 08/15/2008, -5/+4Jeez. Big whoops. How many issues did Obama miss voting on?
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -3/+2If that happened, you'd have one less piece of visual imagery to jerk off to. A photo of JonBenet might be up your alley though.
- swrostmore, on 08/14/2008, -8/+7Don't worry Tom - six more months and we'll have turned the corner in this campaign.
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