Who's Got Your Back
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Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is the nation's largest group dedicated to the Troops and Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the civilian supporters of those Troops and Veterans. As AARP is to your parents, IAVA is to the bad asses in our military. Two years ago, IAVA released a report card on how well the US House and Senate members were doing on issues affecting US military personnel. It looked like this:
The same non-partisan group has put up a new report on the House and Senate for 2008.
Remember when Senator McCain used to go on about Obama voting "present" (instead of yea or nay) in the Illinois Senate? He would go on about it being a gutless move to avoid controversial votes, and he was right. He doesn't mention it anymore. He hasn't mentioned it much since the US Senate vote that went overwhelmingly in favor of Virginia Senator Jim Webb's new GI Bill (77-22). McCain was against the bill, but he didn't come off the campaign trail to place his vote. 23 days from now, those same vets get to place a vote of their own.
Remember when Senator McCain used to go on about Obama voting "present" (instead of yea or nay) in the Illinois Senate? He would go on about it being a gutless move to avoid controversial votes, and he was right. He doesn't mention it anymore. He hasn't mentioned it much since the US Senate vote that went overwhelmingly in favor of Virginia Senator Jim Webb's new GI Bill (77-22). McCain was against the bill, but he didn't come off the campaign trail to place his vote. 23 days from now, those same vets get to place a vote of their own.
1 comment:
Isn't McCain's ranking about the same as his ranking at the Naval Academy? He's a maverick®! He doesn't care about the man's "grades" or "standards."
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