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Originally Posted by nittanyalum
Ignoring the AFL/CIO and The Nation are fine, but why is everyone skipping over what scbelle posted? I think it's interesting info. if a veteran's advocacy group gives only 4 Senators a grade of "D" and McCain is one of them. http://www.veteranreportcard.org/list.html |
I checked it, I saw the "A" list consisted primarily of Democrats, whereas just about all (if not all) of their unacceptable folks were the Republicans who would self-identify as fiscally conservative.
The report card is based upon 22 votes by Congress and how the congressmen voted on those "key" 22 issues. It's not surprising that Republicans would be voting against these bills, drafted by Democrats, with God knows what else in them.
I can't get the website to show me what the particular 22 issues were (it stalls when I query the page), but I'm guessing we don't have links to the full bills or the explanation as to why someone might have voted the way they did and whether their motivation had anything to do with screwing veterans.