for work--
when the country is dealing with a housing crisis, credit crisis, energy crisis, the 25th best Health care system in the world, A FISA bill, multiple GI bills.

He got caught with his pants down in a town hall when a Vet asked him about his voting record and he said he he get's 100% rankings from Vet's organizations.
actually he gets a 20 % for IAVA and a D from the VFW.

53 Senators co sponsored the new GI Bill including 9 Republicans McCain was not one of them and was not present when it passed-- but CLAIMS he works Hard for Vets.

Where is the leadership in that ?
Is it so he does not have a record voting against banks, against insurance companies, against the telecoms companies ?

Obama was there and while I don't like his vote on the FISA bill I understand it.

John McCain is just another puppet like W, who knows nothing and shows it.

I see no problem with not showing up. They had 92 votes, obviously 7 others didn't vote either.

I've always been one that thinks that the LESS Congress does (Government in General), the better off we all would be.

They control WAY too much of our daily lives as it is. They pass way too man STUPID laws and spending bills.

Sounds like you've been reading some Dem talking points.

He has not voted on ANYTHING since APRIL -
NO show hack politician, campaigning for his next job as President of the United States.
Yes and I am a registered Independent who is tired of the news media following McCain around and thinking he's cute like Grandpa Munster.

Congress has a big fat 9% approval rating right now. For all the hating on Bush, he blows away Congress with triple the approval rating, which tells me that the American public thinks Congress is every bit as incompetent as I do. . Good time to not be seen anywhere around DC and to also miss many votes:)

For the most part, they can't get out of their own way.

You're obviously not a doctor, or a Medicare patient. The Republicans were talking this bill to death and preventing a vote on it. Sixty votes were needed to cut off the talking and get on with the voting. Teddy Kennedy's vote was the 60th vote needed. There had been a previous vote a few days before, but those favoring the bill (already passed by the House) had mustered only 59 votes. When they saw Kennedy provide the 60th vote needed, some Republicans changed their vote so the final score was something like 69.

Without this bill, doctors providing services to Medicare patients would have seen their fees cut about 10%, effective July 1, on account of a previous law which required that. Since the fees paid by Medicare are not terribly high already, this could only have hurt Medicare patients in the long run, as doctors would become more and more reluctant to serve our older population (of which you'll be a part some day, if not already).

The new bill reduces certain payments to insurance companies, to make up for the larger payments to doctors. Guess who the friends of the insurance companies are, in Congress?

There are very real consequences as a result of the Medicare situation.

Piedmont Physicians in Peachtree City has decided that it will take no new Medicare or Tricare patients.

I am not sure whether this was the result of the uncertainty surrounding the pending legislation or other factors. But it does show we should not count on Medicare to provide access to the medical care generally available to most insured Americans.

Thanks to Kennedy, the Democrats, and a number of Republicans, the immediate Medicare crisis has been dealt with. Bush and most Republicans opposed this legislation, siding instead with the insurance companies.

I am disappointed, but not surprised, to read that Piedmont Physicians at Peachtree City will no longer accept new Medicare and TriCare patients. [TriCare provides medical benefits for families of members of our armed forces.] What this means, in practical terms, is that current patients will be dumped when they turn 65 and go on Medicare.

This has been coming for some time, however, as could be surmised from a March 2004 article co-authored by the Piedmont Physicians organization CFO (Berney Crane) with the title of Know when to hold ‘em, fold ‘em. This article, published in the Medical Group Management Association magazine Connexion and found on the internet, is none too subtle in its suggestion that doctors walk away from lower-paying patients.

There is no free lunch in life. They would probably take new patients if the person would offer to make up the difference in what medicare pays and what the standard fees are.

I don't know how we made it 100+ years ago without all these votes/give away programs.

That is the province of the fantasizing republicans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qRy4PnmNu8

Oh and Phil Graham-cracker McCain's economic adviser says the recession " is all in our heads!

There is no housing Crisis I wonder if he tells that to his men at Union Bank Switzerland who just wrote down $40 BILLION IN BAD MORTGAGES.

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