John McCain Called To Resign By Az. State Rep. Russell Pearce For Not Doing His Job

  More of the Republican comedy show with a lot of truth in it.

State Rep. Russell Pearce has said that Senator John McCain should resign from his position if he keeps on missing votes because he'd rather be out campaigning for the presidential nomination.

Rep. Russell Pearce:" We need a senator. I think if McCain wants to be a full-time candidate and not be at the Senate, he ought to consider resigning."       Source

  The Washington Post reports that McCain has missed 43 votes thus far in the new Congress' voting. That is almost half of the voting whereas Hillary Clinton has missed not even 2% of voting and Barack Obama has missed 6.4 %.   

   So let us see here. Obama and Clinton, who are way more busy than John McCain is while chasing after their presidential nominations, can actually make it into Washington, D.C. to vote but dear old John can't? He isn't even doing so great to start with!

   His people ( Eileen McMenamin ) say that it isn't an issue because his votes weren't the deciding votes on the issues that he has missed. Were his other votes the deciding votes on those other issues? I seriously doubt it.

   Send the old has-been home for his retirement.

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Democratic War Fund Bill To Be Shot Down?

    “The anti-war Democrats have reached their tipping point,” said Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), a leader of the Out of Iraq caucus. “It’s going to take Republican votes to pass it.”  

Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) : “I’m on the edge,” he said. “I’m not liking this. A lot of people have bought into the notion that you have to fund the troops. Funding the troops means more troops are going to die.”
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) “Probably not. If it doesn’t have some sort of timeline, it’s going to be tough for me to vote for it.”  The Hill

    Rep. Ed Perlmutter said, “I don’t know,” when he was asked if he could support the new war funding bill that the Democratic leaders are now pushing that do not contain any timelines for withdrawing the troops from Iraq.

  Hopefully, this bill will go into the waste basket and a different one will emerge with the timelines included.

   Democratic leaders are saying that this bill is a victory of sorts but I don't see it that way. Bush gets what he wants and the democrats have to go back to square one to start all over again. They will be losing a lot of ground if this bill passes.

  If the Democratic leadership thinks that they'll get more Republicans to back them at the end of September when we will have our latest report on the progress in Iraq, they are as delusional as Bush is because the GOP is looking at this bill as a sign of Democratic weakness. if it passes, and they will see no reason to cooperate with the Democrats.

   This bill is BULLSHIT !

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