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Originally Posted by attaboy "John McCain calls himself a maverick, but he votes with George Bush more than 90% of the time...that's not a maverick, that's a sidekick." Sen. Bob Casey
Obama's campaign runs and ad where McCain is saying he's voted with Bush 90% of the time. True. What was McCain responding to when he said that? He was responding to the accusation he wasn’t a conservative. What does that 90% say about McCains voting record, not that he voted with Bush since Bush can't vote in the Senate and notably had at the time never used the veto. So all it says is that McCain voted for bills that successfully became Law. That is a negative spin by Obama - again accurate but it completely misstates the situation. You see Bush signs a bill into law after it has been passed by Congress. | I posted about this in different thread.
Also if you check out Obama's record he has voted with his party 97% of the time. Kind of funny a bloke who has voted party lines 97% of the time talking about change now ain't it? |
Obama is a freshman Senator. As a newbie, he doesn't have any choice but to vote how he is told by leadership. McCain is a liberal Republican. He's being demonized because he's not the Democrat candidate. Before it was clear McCain was the Repub candidate Democrats said they liked McCain and could even vote for him. I wouldn't be surprised if ray was one of them.
Anyways, If McCain wins he can't help being who he is, a liberal Repub. Without a Republican Congress he has no hopes of fulfilling any promise he's made to the conservative wing of the party. He will be a president who will mildly curb a Democrat Congress' ambitions. The question is will the Democrats have any courage to push their agenda? The election will be over, the finger pointing won't work, they're in charge of Congress.
The only conservative effect measure McCain could take as president is change the mission statement of foreign aid and possibly some funding of foreign aid. I can't remember what this executive action is called but he can effect foreign aid programs to a minor extent via his executive powers. Bush did it with the funding and mission statement of birth control measures in African aid.
The scenario I see is the Democrat Congress will submit their purposely overinflated bills. McCain will say there's too much spending. The Democrats will cut some spending for appearances and McCain will sign the bill. Democrats will then go on television declaring victory despite the mean old republican man cutting millions of dollars out of the bill. Some Americans somewhere will be left out because of the mean old man. We're headed back to the pre-Reagan era. We're going backwards. How can Democrats call themselves progressives?
