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Can we just start calling him “former Senator” now?
You know, one of the pieces of legislation John McCain is best known for is one which happens to bare his name - the McCain-Feingold Act, a 2002 bill which enacted campaign finance reform. Maybe McCain needs to revisit campaign reform, and pass some sort of limits on how much a politician’s current job he or she can skip out on while campaigning for reelection or a new public job.
Of course, McCain would suffer more than most under such a regime, since he’s now been deemed the “most absent Senator in [the] 110th Congress.”. Technically, he’s actually second on that list, but Senator Tim Johnson gets a pass since his absences are due to his unfortunate brain hemorrhage last December.
Meanwhile, McCain has missed over 40 percent of the Senate’s role-call votes to date, a fact which he happily ignores while hypocritically attacking other candidates for their own voting:
While McCain did not have time to vote against the [Iraq] withdrawal plan [on Friday], he did find time to release a harsh statement attacking the Senators who did not vote to begin redeployment. “We need to send a bill to the President that he can sign, and we need to do it as soon as possible,” he said.
He added: “…well, as soon as possible, so long as it doesn’t interfere with kissing babies. I mean, priorities people! Why try to help our soldiers and run our country and all these things when there are palms to be pressed?”
