McCain's only redeeming quality as a candidate, IMO, is his unconditional support for the troops and fighting to win.
He hit the nail on the head, here.
No doubt. In fact, he should stay away from D.C. forever.
McCain doesn't even bother to vote.
what leadership
The non-binding resolution before us is not about stopping a hypothetical plan. It is about disapproving a plan that is being carried out now by our fellow Americans in uniform, in the field. In that sense, as I have said, it is unprecedented in Congressional history, in American history. This resolution is about shouting into the wind. It is about ignoring realities of what’s happening on the ground in Baghdad.It proposes nothing. It contains no plan for victory or retreat. It proposes nothing. It is a strategy of “no,” while our soldiers are saying, “yes, sir” to their commanding officers as they go forward into battle.
And that is why I will vote against the resolution by voting against cloture.
I understand the frustration, anger, and exhaustion that so many Americans, so many members of Congress, feel about Iraq, the desire to throw up one’s hands and simply say, “Enough.” And I am painfully aware of the enormous toll of this war in human life — and of the mistakes that have been made in the war’s conduct.
But let us now not make another mistake. In the midst of a fluid and uncertain situation in Iraq, we should not be so bound up in our own arguments and disagreements, so committed to the positions we have staked out, that the political battle over here takes precedence over the real battle over there. Whatever the passions of the moment, the point of reference for our decision-making should be military movements on the battlefields of Iraq, not political maneuverings in the halls of Congress.
Typical .. they were only 4 votes shy of getting their lunacy passed.
Either McCain KNEW it would not pass .. or he's so arrogant that he just didn't care if it passed or not .. since it's non-binding.
Ok, so McCain has one redeeming quality. It doesn't go far to outweigh his bountiful non-redeeming ones.
Let me see....wasn't it the people that decided not to vote in the last election to "teach the republicans a lesson" that lost us the republican majority to begin with?? Sorry, I don't see how McCain not casting a vote against the democRAT treason is a good thing.
If it didn't matter that he was there, then it wasn't a move of courage to miss the vote. If he wants to show political courage, he should publicly repudiate Hagel.
No he was NOT right to stay away.
This was a crucial vote and he should have been there to vote against cloture.
BUMP!
Congress is a disgrace and McCain is a clown.
Zook, I've given this alot of consideration and I still disagree with you on this.
In my opinion, if the capitol building is going to be full of traitors and seditionist, attempting to use our system and the media to abandon our troops and put this country in jeopardy, then its the duty of those elected to serve to be there.
Hell its all our duty to be there, but especially those who have access to the floor, to the tools of gov't needed to defeat them.
McCain's a loser...
John McCain - McCain-Feingold, gun show checks, Geneva accord treatment for terrorists, pro-illegal aliens, supported Dems in selecting Supreme Court Judges, supports political censoring of internet forums like this one - John McCain - the Media's FAVORITE Republican.