Saying he voted with George Bush 90% of the time isn't enough. Specific issues have to be mentioned to see how dishonorable McCain has been.
The first 6 moths of 2003 and this is John McCain's voting record in the Senate. Highlights of what he voted against:
- Emergency funding for agricultural disasters
- Funding for education
- To improve funding for medicare and Medicaid
- Improve availability for contraception
- Provide financial security to family farm and small business owners by ending the practice of taxing someone at death
- Providing more funding for first responders and port security
- Tax credit for individuals with chronic health care issues
- Increase spending on veterans affairs
- Ensure prescription drug benefit is available to all medicare beneficiaries
- To increase funding for after school programs and Head Start
- Fulfill US commitment to health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives
- To help rural health care providers and hospitals received fair reimbursement for services under Medicare by reducing tax cuts on the wealthy.
- Provide increased funding for environmental protection and natural resources conservation
- Require polluters to pay for cleanup of toxic waste sites by reinstating taxes
- Restore funding for vocational education
- To increase budget allocation to combat global AIDS and reduce the deficit
- Provide humanitarian food assistance in connection with US activities in Iraq
- Ensure Social security surpluses aren’t raided in order to fund tax cuts on corporate dividends
- To expand the ability of the child tax credit to be refunded
- To amend the IRS code of 1986 to make higher education more affordable
- To require a specific plan for AIDS orphans