NOW: In A “Breathtaking Turnabout” McCain “Embraced” the Bush Tax Cuts. The New York Times reported, “But an equally breathtaking turnabout occurred earlier in the year, when Mr. McCain embraced the Bush tax cuts he had once denounced as an unaffordable giveaway to the rich. In an interview with National Review, Mr. McCain justified his reversal by saying, ‘Tax cuts, starting with Kennedy, as we all know, increase revenues.’” [New York Times, 10/9/07]
THEN: McCain Voted Against the Bush Tax Cut Citing Benefits For The Wealthy. In 2001, John McCain voted against final passage of the Bush tax cut. McCain said, “I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who need tax relief.” [H.R. 1836, Roll Call Vote #170, 5/26/01; Los Angeles Times, 5/27/01]

McCain voted against an amendment authorizing $2.4 billion for FY 2002 for a Federal program to assist States and local educational agencies to recruit, hire, and train 100,000 new teachers in order to reduce class sizes in the early grades to a national average of 18 students per classroom; and authorizes such sums as necessary for each of FYs 2003-2008 for the program. [ 2001 Senate Vote #103, 5/15/2001 ]

Senate Republicans voted for the final version of the 2005 budget reconciliation bill, which passed 50-50 with the Vice President casting the tie-breaking vote. The package cut $12.7 million from college loans, the largest cuts to the student loan program in its history. [ 2005 Senate Vote #363, 12/21/2005; 12/21/2005; AP, 12/19/05; Washington Post, 12/19/05; Minnesota Budget Project, 1/17/06 ]

McCain voted against an amendment that would increase the general estate tax exemption for a couple to $4 million, as well as the family-owned business exemption to $8 million per couple by 2010, and provide that up to $12,000 per year for college tuition may be tax deductible for taxpayers with a top marginal rate of 28 percent. The college tuition provision would fully phase in by 2002. It also included a tax credit for teachers seeking board certification. [ 2000 Senate Vote #182, 7/13/2000 ]

McCain would be far more likely to veto civil rights legislation as president than any president in modern American history. Periodically some civil rights legislation needs to be renewed by congress, and McCain has had one of the worst records of support for any civil rights legislation of any type of anyone in either the Congress or the U.S. Senate.

I know most of these issues are not near or dear to you but most are to me and you asked.

 

I love how now people are calling this racist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGtUHvJY4Yw

but a hanging effigy of Palin is apparently just fine.

 

What people called it racist?

 

http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/s...-3515201.shtml

"Members of YCT said they did not intend for the event to be a racist criticism of Obama, which is what they feared part of the crowd thought."

"Calling us racists and bigots..."

A majority of the crowd was mostly OK with it, but there is a certain percentage of people who were talking about how it was racist that the group was throwing eggs at a picture of Obama (aka desecrating it) and that the event would never have taken place if Obama was a white man.

Just for the record, I think that both this and the Palin Halloween decoration went too far. I just thought it was a bit ridiculous that one was tolerated and the other wasn't.