[SoConPubbie]

Well let's review his record. He agrees with the socialists on amensty for illegals, abortion, campaign finance reform, opposing repeal of Roe vs Wade, opposing drilling in ANWR, global warming. He also advocated closing GITMO when he was running for President, founded the Reform Institute funded by George Soros. McAmnesty joined in 2007 to file an amicus brief against the Wisconsin Right to Life organization brief thereby helping helping pro-abort Russ Feingold, the Law Of The Sea Treaty(L.O.S.T) that would have ceded at least some of our national sovereignty to the one world order UN. He also admonished the North Carolina RNC for running an ad against BO/BS. Most recently sponsored a bill that would have banned over the counter dietary supplements being sold only to withdraw the bill after receiving harsh criticism. Other than those issues, you're right, he's just a conservative at heart.

Yes, why don't we review his record and put your LIES to rest:

So here are the some of the votes, you left out, of the man you would call a socialist from OnTheIssues.com:

Pro-Life Issues

• Supports repealing Roe v. Wade. (May 2007)
• Voted YES on restricting UN funding for population control policies. (Mar 2009)
• Voted YES on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP. (Mar 2008)
• Voted YES on barring HHS grants to organizations that perform abortions. (Oct 2007)
• Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007)
• Voted YES on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006)
• Voted NO on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)
• Voted YES on criminal penalty for harming unborn fetus during other crime. (Mar 2004)
• Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions except for maternal life. (Mar 2003)
• Voted YES on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions. (Jun 2000)
• Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)
• Voted YES on banning human cloning. (Feb 1998)
• Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)
• Expand embryonic stem cell research. (Jun 2004)
• Rated 75% by the NRLC, indicating a mixed record on abortion. (Dec 2006)
• Prohibit transporting minors across state lines for abortion. (Jan 2008)

Budget and Economy Issues

• Veto all pork-barrel bills and announce pork spenders. (May 2007)
• Voted NO on $192B additional anti-recession stimulus spending. (Jul 2009)
• Voted YES on modifying bankruptcy rules to avoid mortgage foreclosures. (May 2009)
• Voted NO on additional $825 billion for economic recovery package. (Feb 2009)
• Voted YES on $40B in reduced federal overall spending. (Dec 2005)
• Voted NO on prioritizing national debt reduction below tax cuts. (Apr 2000)
• Voted YES on Balanced-budget constitutional amendment. (Mar 1997)
• Maintain & enforce existing spending caps in the future. (Sep 1998)

Civil Rights

• Voted NO on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes. (Jun 2002) Voted NO on ending special funding for minority & women-owned business. (Oct 1997)
• Voted YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage. (Sep 1996)
• Voted NO on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation. (Sep 1996)
• Voted YES on Amendment to prohibit flag burning. (Dec 1995)
• Voted YES on banning affirmative action hiring with federal funds. (Jul 1995)
• Supports anti-flag desecration amendment. (Mar 2001)
• Limit interstate class-action lawsuits to federal courts . (May 2002)
• Rated 0% by the ACLU, indicating an anti-civil rights voting record. (Dec 2002)
• Rated 7% by the NAACP, indicating an anti-affirmative-action stance. (Dec 2006)

Corporations

• Cut taxes for small business so they can thrive. (Oct 2008)
• Need stricter interpretation and consolidation of regulators. (Sep 2008)
• Government should be on businesses’ side, not in their way. (Jun 2008)
• More deductible expensing of equipment investments. (Feb 2008)
• Cut corporate income taxes to keep jobs here. (Jan 2008)
• People worry about corporations unduly influencing elections. (Sep 2007)

Crime

• Judges have limited scope under the Constitution. (Nov 2006)
• More death penalty; stricter sentencing. (Jan 2000)
• Prosecute youths as adults, but separately; explore sources. (Jan 2000)
• Pro-death penalty; more prisons; increased penalties. (Jul 1998)
• Voted YES on limiting death penalty appeals. (Apr 1996)
• Voted YES on limiting product liability punitive damage awards. (Mar 1996)
• Voted YES on repealing federal speed limits. (Jun 1995)
• Voted YES on rejecting racial statistics in death penalty appeals. (May 1994)
• Rated 29% by CURE, indicating anti-rehabilitation crime votes. (Dec 2000)
• Establish an FBI registry of sexual offendors. (Oct 1996)

Education

• Unrestricted block grants--let states decide spending. (Feb 2000)
• Voted NO on $52M for "21st century community learning centers". (Oct 2005)
• Voted NO on $5B for grants to local educational agencies. (Oct 2005)
• Voted NO on shifting $11B from corporate tax loopholes to education. (Mar 2005)
• Voted NO on funding smaller classes instead of private tutors. (May 2001)
• Voted NO on funding student testing instead of private tutors. (May 2001)
• Voted NO on spending $448B of tax cut on education & debt reduction. (Apr 2001)
• Voted YES on declaring memorial prayers and religious symbols OK at schools. (May 1999)
• Voted YES on allowing more flexibility in federal school rules. (Mar 1999)
• Voted YES on education savings accounts. (Jun 1998)
• Voted YES on school vouchers in DC. (Sep 1997)
• Voted YES on $75M for abstinence education. (Jul 1996)
• Voted YES on requiring schools to allow voluntary prayer. (Jul 1994)
• Voted NO on national education standards. (Feb 1994)
• Require state standards, regular assessments, and sanctions. (Jul 2001)
• Support Ed-Flex: more flexibility if more accountable. (Jul 2001)

Foreign Policy

• Voted YES on cooperating with India as a nuclear power. (Oct 2008)
• Voted YES on cap foreign aid at only $12.7 billion. (Oct 1999)
• Voted YES on limiting the President's power to impose economic sanctions. (Jul 1998)
• Voted NO on limiting NATO expansion to only Poland, Hungary & Czech. (Apr 1998)
• Voted YES on Strengthening of the trade embargo against Cuba. (Mar 1996)
• Libyan disarmament was a CIA success story. (Mar 2005)
• Impose sanctions and an import ban on Burma. (Oct 2007)
• Urge Venezuela to re-open dissident radio & TV stations. (May 2007)
• Call for Burma's junta to release political prisoners. (Jun 2007)
• Let Ukraine & Georgia enter NATO. (Jan 2008)
• Sponsored bill supporting demonstrations against Iran. (Jun 2009)

Government Reform

• Voted NO on Congressional pay raise. (Jul 2009)
• Voted NO on providing a US House seat for the District of Columbia. (Feb 2009)
• Voted NO on granting the District of Columbia a seat in Congress. (Sep 2007)
• Voted YES on requiring photo ID to vote in federal elections. (Jul 2007)
• Voted YES on establishing the Senate Office of Public Integrity. (Mar 2006)
• Voted YES on require photo ID (not just signature) for voter registration. (Feb 2002)
• Voted NO on funding for National Endowment for the Arts. (Aug 1999)
• Voted YES on Approving the presidential line-item veto. (Mar 1996)
• Sponsored bill disclosing lobbyist info & gifts on Internet. (Dec 2005)
• Sponsored bill allowing individual votes on each earmark. (Feb 2006)
• Ban paid voter registration. (May 2009)
• Require all laws to cite Constitutional authorization. (Jun 2009)
• Reduce federal government size & scope, including military. (Sep 1998)

Guns

• Prosecute criminals, not citizens for gun ownership. (Sep 2007)
• Don’t hold gun manufacturers liable for crimes. (Sep 2007)
• Opposes restrictions on assault weapons and ammunition types. (Sep 2007)
• Voted against Brady Bill & assault weapon ban. (Aug 1999)
• Punish criminals who abuse 2nd Amendment rights. (May 1999)
• Repeal existing gun restrictions; penalize criminal use. (Jul 1998)
• Voted YES on allowing firearms in checked baggage on Amtrak trains. (Apr 2009)
• Voted YES on prohibiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers. (Jul 2005)
• Voted YES on banning lawsuits against gun manufacturers for gun violence. (Mar 2004)
• Voted NO on background checks at gun shows. (May 1999)
• Voted YES on loosening license & background checks at gun shows. (May 1999)
• Voted YES on maintaining current law: guns sold without trigger locks. (Jul 1998)
• Ban gun registration & trigger lock law in Washington DC. (Mar 2007)
• Allow firearms in National Parks. (Feb 2008)

Health Care

• Allow appealing HMO decisions externally & in court. (Jul 1999)
• Voted NO on expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program. (Jan 2009)
• Voted NO on expanding enrollment period for Medicare Part D. (Feb 2006)
• Voted YES on increasing Medicaid rebate for producing generics. (Nov 2005)
• Voted YES on negotiating bulk purchases for Medicare prescription drug. (Mar 2005)
• Voted NO on $40 billion per year for limited Medicare prescription drug benefit. (Jun 2003)
• Voted YES on allowing reimportation of Rx drugs from Canada. (Jul 2002)
• Voted YES on allowing patients to sue HMOs & collect punitive damages. (Jun 2001)
• Voted NO on including prescription drugs under Medicare. (Jun 2000)
• Voted YES on limiting self-employment health deduction. (Jul 1999)
• Voted NO on blocking medical savings acounts. (Apr 1996)
• Tax credits for those without employee health insurance. (May 2002)
• Tax deduction for long-term care insurance. (May 2002)
• Rated 25% by APHA, indicating a anti-public health voting record. (Dec 2003)

Health Care

• Keep “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy - it works. (Jan 2000)
• Voted NO on preserving habeas corpus for Guantanamo detainees. (Sep 2006)
• Voted NO on requiring CIA reports on detainees & interrogation methods. (Sep 2006)
• Voted NO on adopting the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. (Oct 1999)
• Voted YES on deploying National Missile Defense ASAP. (Mar 1999)
• Voted YES on military pay raise of 4.8%. (Feb 1999)
• Voted NO on prohibiting same-sex basic training. (Jun 1998)
• Voted YES on considering deploying NMD, and amending ABM Treaty. (Jun 1996)
• Rated 0% by SANE, indicating a pro-military voting record. (Dec 2003)
• Sponsored bill giving higher priority to rail security. (Jul 2005)
• Innovate intelligence-gathering for future hard targets. (Mar 2005)
• CIA needs more focus on counterterrorism. (Mar 2005)
• So-called Legal Issues are myths; not real CIA hindrances. (Mar 2005)
• Sponsored bill for Iraq budget to be part of defense budget. (Jun 2006)
• Improve educational assistance for veterans. (Apr 2008)

Jobs

• Cut business taxes so companies will keep jobs in US. (Sep 2008)
• Voted against minimum wage 19 times, when in pork bills. (Aug 2008)
• Raising taxes eliminates jobs. (Jul 2008)
• Produce jobs by producing America’s own energy. (Jul 2008)
• Overhaul unemployment insurance as a retraining program. (Feb 2008)
• Unions are monopolies; don’t compel people to join. (Oct 2007)
• Family farms: Crop insurance; reduce inheritance tax. (Jan 2000)
• Ethanol is not worth it, even in Iowa. (Dec 1999)
• Ethanol bad for environment & bad for consumers. (Nov 1999)
• End sugar subsidy; it hurts consumers & helps only tycoons. (Aug 1999)
• Voted NO on restricting employer interference in union organizing. (Jun 2007)
• Voted YES on repealing Clinton's ergonomic rules on repetitive stress. (Mar 2001)
• Voted YES on allowing workers to choose between overtime & comp-time. (May 1997)
• Voted YES on replacing farm price supports. (Feb 1996)
• Rated 15% by the AFL-CIO, indicating an anti-union voting record. (Dec 2003)

Social Security

• Future retirees cannot get what current ones get. (Oct 2008)
• Looming challenges of entitlements need personal accounts. (Feb 2008)
• We need personal savings accounts. (Oct 2007)
• Save benefits by bipartisan agreement; but without new tax. (Apr 2007)
• Trust Fund is a ticking time bomb, set to go off in 2014. (Jan 2000)
• More believe in Elvis than in getting Social Security check. (Jan 2000)
• Option to invest 20% of payroll taxes in private accounts. (Jan 2000)
• Disallow using Trust Fund for “emergency” spending. (Jun 1999)
• Allow workers to invest privately. (Jun 1999)
• Earnings test penalizes productivity in retirees. (Jun 1999)
• Eliminate the “earnings test” which taxes benefits. (May 1999)
• Lock up Trust Fund; devote 62% of budget surplus to it. (May 1999)
• Put surplus into Trust Fund; fulfill promised benefits. (Jul 1998)
• Voted YES on Social Security Lockbox & limiting national debt. (Apr 1999)
• Voted YES on allowing Roth IRAs for retirees. (May 1998)
• Voted YES on allowing personal retirement accounts. (Apr 1998)
• Voted YES on deducting Social Security payments on income taxes. (May 1996)
• Supports individual savings accounts and work incentives. (Sep 1998)

Tax Reform

• Voted YES on allowing AMT reduction without budget offset. (Mar 2008)
• Voted YES on raising the Death Tax exemption to $5M from $1M. (Feb 2008)
• Voted YES on repealing the Alternative Minimum Tax. (Mar 2007)
• Voted YES on raising estate tax exemption to $5 million. (Mar 2007)
• Voted YES on supporting permanence of estate tax cuts. (Aug 2006)
• Voted YES on permanently repealing the `death tax`. (Jun 2006)
• Voted NO on $47B for military by repealing capital gains tax cut. (Feb 2006)
• Voted YES on retaining reduced taxes on capital gains & dividends. (Feb 2006)
• Voted YES on extending the tax cuts on capital gains and dividends. (Nov 2005)
• Voted YES on reducing marriage penalty instead of cutting top tax rates. (May 2001)
• Voted YES on eliminating the 'marriage penalty'. (Jul 2000)
• Voted YES on phasing out the estate tax ("death tax"). (Jul 2000)
• Voted YES on requiring super-majority for raising taxes. (Apr 1998)

Technology

• Ban Internet taxes & new cell phone taxes. (Feb 2008)
• Internet tax ban saved consumers $600M this Xmas. (Jan 2000)
• Make Internet tax moratorium permanent. (Dec 1999)
• Get more government documents on-line. (Aug 1999)
• No government control over computer encryption. (Apr 1999)
• Voted NO on restoring $550M in funding for Amtrak for 2007. (Mar 2006)
• Voted YES on Internet sales tax moratorium. (Oct 1998)
• Permanent ban on state & local taxation of Internet access. (Oct 2007)
• Website for competitive federal awards. (Jun 2008)

Welform and Poverty

• Require 40 hours work per week from welfare recipients. (Nov 2004)
• Supports block grants, welfare-to-work, state control. (Jan 2000)
• Use tax code to address unemployment & working conditions. (Jul 1998)
• Pro-block grants; pro-welfare-to-work. (Jul 1998)
• Voted YES on welfare block grants. (Aug 1996)
• Voted YES on welfare overhaul. (Sep 1995)

[SoConPubbie]

Given the list of his conservative positions and votes on the issues, are you sure you don’t want to come back to the side of honesty, sanity, and the lack of Hyperbole and admit that John McCain is NOT a socialist, but extremely moderate RINO?

[Man50D]

<Yes, why don't we review his record and put your LIES to rest:

More McAmnesty truths:

Opposes repealing Roe v. Wade. (May 2007)

FLASHBACK: McCain In 1999 — ‘I Would Not Support Repeal Of Roe V. Wade’

John McCain's Whimsical World of Conservatism

1982/00/00 McCain enters Congress, with his family accepts first of nine trips some aboard Keating's leer jet, three of which include stayovers at Keating's Caribbean resort (goes unreported for up to 7 years)

1983/09/28 McCain joins 26 other Republicans to vote with the Majority Party Congressional Democrats to demand U.S. Troops exit Lebanon, winds up on the losing side

1986/04/00 Cindy McCain and her father invest $359,100 in a Charles Keating strip mall

1987/00/00 McCain has received $112,000 by this time for Congressional and Senate campaigns, from Charles Keating, his relatives, and his employees, the largest amount to any Keating 5 member

1987/04/02 McCain joins four Democrats to intercede on behalf of his S&L Owner friend Keating with Ed Gray, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and also banking regulators (2 meetings)

1988/02/11 McCain votes to affirm Anthony Kennedy as a justice for the SCOTUS

1989/00/00 McCain discloses Keating trips as his involvement in the S&L scandal breaks, reimbursing $13,433.00 with no repercussions as late as seven years after the fact

1990/10/02 McCain votes to Confirm Justice David H. Souter from New Hampshire to be an Associate Justice on the SCOTUS Court

1993/10/10 McCain co-sponsors an unsuccessful bill to cut off funding of United States troops in Somalia

1993/08/10 McCain joins the Democrats and most Republicans voting to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the worst justice on the court today. Three Republicans vote Nay.

1993/01/13 McCain and Kerry release the Select Committee report urging the MIA issue be put to rest so that Vietnam could be granted normalized relations with the U.S., over objections by MIA family and veterans groups. Video1 Video2 ( I do not endorse all of the information presented in video1 here. The video does touch on a number of topics, and I think most are germane ) If I could have found video that contained most of this information without touching on McCain's POW experience I would have posted it instead. Still, there are parts of McCain's POW experience that are troubling. I'd just rather not go there. Video2 shows how one MIA family rep is treated, confirming some of the reports in Video1.

1994/07/24 McCain joins with the Democrats to confirm nominee Stephen Breyer to be an Associate Justice on the SCOTUS. Nine Senators voted Nay...

1997/00/00 McCain leads the opposition to the Coats Amendment, preventing government funded fetal tissue research ( derived from "a legal act" [abortion] ) Amendment defeated!

1999/08/19 McCain stated, ""Certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade,"

2000/00/00 McCain joins Democrat Russ Feingold to introduce Campaign Finance Reform, an effort funded by George Soros Article

2000/00/00 McCain was the keynote speaker at the ultra-liberal Philadelphia convention sponsored by George Soros while John F. Kerry keynoted at another Soros event on the same day...

2000/11/20 McCain participates in the production of a gun control spot for Oregon's Proposition Five. (Circa this date, prior to the November election.) Article

2001/00/00 McCain founded the Reform Institute funded by George Soros

2001/05/15 McCain introduces the Gun Show Loophole bill S890, with Carper, Lieberman, DeWine, Clinton, and Schumer co/sponsoring. Analysis

2003/03/19 McCain joins Democrats to vote against drilling in ANWR

2003/10/30 McCain joins Lieberman again, this time to introduce the Climate Stewardship Act (Gorebal worming et al) Thomas Bill S139

2004/06/04 McCain signs letter with 58 Senators, "We write to urge you to expand the current federal policy concerning embryonic stem cell research."

2004/08/05 McCain announces he deplores the Swift Boat adds against Senator John Kerry, and asks the White House to refute them

2005/00/00 McCain resigns from the Reform Institute he founded with George Soros

2005/01/28 McCain declares, "I want us in the ICC (International Criminal Court)", but I would like to see more safeguards first

2005/05/12 McCain joins Ted Kennedy to introduce McCain/Kennedy immigration legislation that would wind up making illegal immigrants citizens (AMNESTY!)

2006/04/28 McCain states, "I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected that has become corrupt."

2006/09/06 McCain joins Dole to write op-ed for the Washington Post, states in part, "We should publicly remind Khartoum that the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes..."

2007/02/17 McCain states he will close Guantanamo Bay terrorist detainment center on his first day in office Video (same as date link on the left)

2007/03/22 McCain gets the pledged support of Chuck and Sue Cobb, Jeb Bush's Florida Director of the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement effort

2007/06/00 McCain joins Baldwin, Shays and Meehan to file an amicus brief against the Wisconsin Right to Life organization brief The wrong side of a pro-life issue, helping pro-abort Feingold

2007/06/18 McCains Gitmo problem, close the base, grant Geneva Convention status, stop water boarding...

2007/10/25 McCain still wants us to sign the L.O.S.T. treaty in time, but does have concerns over sovereignty issues.

2008/03/00 McCain makes his first attempt to tell a state (North Carolina) Republican Party what to do. The RNC joins him.

2008/03/24 McCain hires Meg Whiteman to cochair his Presidential campaign. Whiteman is another wishy washy at best Independent, who has donated to leftist candidates and still doesn't have a clue what side to come down on with regard to illegal immigration. She is leaning toward running for Governor in California and being courted by it's Republican leadership. Links to CalCowGirl's comments regardint Whiteman's donations. Article above.

2008/03/26 McCains speech to the World Affairs Council, Europe may get veto power over some of our foreign policy...

2008/04/08 McCain casts last Senate vote during his Presidential Campaign. By the EOBD 06/24/08, he has missed 367 votes or 61.4% of the Senate votes in the 110th Congress. His last vote before the one he cast on April 8 was cast on 03/14/08. LINK

2008/05/09 McCains interview with O'Reilly... I won't drill in ANWR... it's pretty... I'm an environmentalist. (note: there's a good chance he may have an environMental disorder)

2008/05/12 McCain Joins the Goreball Worming Cult, sounding more like Al Gore every day... McCain's Oregon add Video

2008/05/13 McCain takes an Environmental walk, with the leader of the Cascade Land Conservancy... (another series of fruit loop moments)

2008/05/15 McCain states he will appoint Democrats to his administration, during a Republican teleconference and during a Columbus stump speech

2008/05/27 McCain announces support for severe cutbacks on our nuclear weapons, withdrawing battlefield nukes from Europe and giving our nuclear waste to an international body

2008/06/04 McCain states, "I disagreed strongly with the Bush administration's mismanagement of the war in Iraq."

2008/06/14 McCain tells Clinton supporters they should back him because he voted for Ginsberg and Breyer Said this to Conservatives on 2008/05/07

2008/06/21 It is announced McCain and Obama will address open borders group in Los Angeles on July 18th, 2008, Communists and worst of U.S. Illeagal Alien appologist groups...

2008/06/21 McCain and team realize he has so little credibility on judicial appointments, that they announce he will let Fred Thompson vet his judges. That's 06/21/08's version of truth...

2008/06/28 McCain declares, "I will make comprehensive immigration reform my “top priority,” during my first 100 days in office. He assures Latino leaders that they will have an ally in the White House.

2009/07/01 McCain's camp gets skewered by Tammy Bruce in her commentary titled, "McCain's Camp Praises Sanford and Trashes Palin?"

2009/07/12 McCain plans to lead an effort to reverse the decision in committee that would add $1.7 billion for 12 additional F-22s next year.

2009/07/13 McCain, in an unusual alliance with the Obama administration, moved Monday to eliminate $1.75 billion recently inserted into the proposed 2010 defense budget for more (F22) fighter jets from Lockheed Martin

2009/07/14 McCain backs Obama on F-22 cuts, but advocates vow fight

2009/07/21 McCain gives credit to President Obama for standing firm, on cutting F22 funding

2009/09/24 McCain Palin break on F-22 cuts

2009/10/21 McCain says, “I haven’t looked at him that carefully because I haven’t been around,” regarding Arpaio’s well-publicized exploits in the Phoenix area, when asked what he thought of him. However McCain had known enough about Arpaio around 2004 to back Mesa police Cmdr. Dan Saban over him.

2009/10/25 McCain defends Obama against Cheney's comments on his Afghanistan dithering, calls for unity with president

2009/11/18 McCain defends campaign staff against Palin

2009/12/06 McCain defends Palin while referring to her as irrelevent, then lauds her work

2010/01/10 McCain Strategist Schmidt trashes Palin, says McCain had planned to name Lieberman as his VP choice in 2008

2010/01/20 McCain coopts Palin for his own purposes.

2010/01/21 McCain and Brown meet, McCain's office... coopting alert

2010/01/21 McCain/Feingold Finance Reform takes big hit from SCOTUS, as Conservatives had first predicted Malkin

2010/01/22 McCain coopts Brown for his own purposes. Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome

2010/01/23 McCain's PAC supports California's former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina for U. S. Senate, likes Jessie Jackson and gender politics.

2010/01/26 McCain, U.S. Supreme Court overturns bulk of McCain/Feingold Act (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

2010/01/26 McCain, Bayh team up on spending freeze bill to back Obama, and to grant him line item veto.

2010/02/03 McCain introduces the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010. Bill S3002. The U.S. Government and the pharmaceutical industry have been trying for decades to clamp down on dietary supplements, to protect people from God knows what, to reduce competition with their medications, and also to gain market share in this arena

2010/03/24 McCain joins other Senators to form a caucus on Global Internet Freedom. While sounding rather benign, McCain's past inability to see things clearly, causes concern regarding any effort he decides to become a part of, especially if it's as important as a tool of freedom of speech. One can only wonder if this will come back to haunt us like so many other things he's become involved in have.

2010/03/25 McCain calls for civility in debate over the Health Care bill, echos Democrats call for peace. RNC head Steele refuses to buy in.

2010/03/26 McCain is taken to task by Andrew C. McCarthy in a commentary titled, "the Mark of McCain". It seems McCain offered (and Graham was involved too) an amendment that had terrible ramifications, in all likelihood leading to the release of Mohamedou Slahi, one of the 9/11 plotters. Read the detailed summary at the link.

2010/03/26 McCain, even the L.A. Times has his number. They herald his movement to the right (during re-election bid). They also touch on how McCain coopted (my term, not theirs) Palin and Brown for his benefit.

2010/03/26 McCain appears with Palin on FoxNews' "On the Record", with Greta Van Susteren. Among other things, Palin states, "I support his position on immigration."

2010/03/27 McCain calls in his favors from Palin, and she spends the day lavishing praise on him at appearances.