If you side with Bush 95% of the time and are still called a Maverick?

Question

Does that make Cheney a Maverick too?

Answer 1

GET THIS STRAIGHT - Look up some facts, before you start aping a bunch of c**p that came out of Barack Hussein Obama's mouth. If you do a little research yourself, you'll find all the senators will vote the same way over 90% of the time. The largest majority of things they vote on are passed almost unanimously.  

Answer 2

That 95% is foolishness.

Most votes in the Senate are consensus or unanimous votes and Obama voted the same way as McCain - if he was around and not off running for president.

Obama has the same type of record - always voting lockstep with his party - more so than ANY OTHER Senator.

That's why Obama is the MOST liberal Senator. Biden is #3. Ahead of Socialist Bernie Sanders of Vermont who registers as a (D) and caucuses with them.

The Dems are misleading voters who they depend on as having no idea how the Senate works.

If voters did know, they'd run like scalded dogs from Obama/Biden.

McCain has been the scourge of the GOP and George Bush.

The media was thrilled over the past 8 years to lead nightly newscasts with stories of McCain criticizing Bush and Cheney on policy.

Where are those stories now?????

How gullible are you????

Answer 3

No.  Just intelligent and not a Marxist.  

The economy is not bad (less unemployment than what was considered full employment under Clinton), we are winning the war (see the handover of Anbar Province yesterday), and CHANGE (did anybody mention that Condoleeza Rice is meeting with Mommar Khadafi today due to the fact that he didn't want to be Saddam and immediately announced that he had nothing to do with 9/11 and has denounced terrorism.  Big Change from 20 years ago).  

I'd say Bush is a pretty good President.  I know I am in the minority because I actually put thought into this stuff but it is my opinion.

P.L.Y.-- I did get the Richard Nixon vibe too.  That's funny.  Especially because, of all the times I have seen Obama, I never noticed the mole on his nose before.

Answer 4

Regardless of how often he sided with Bush on procedural events, it doesn't negate the fact that he has his own ideas for the direction of the country. You can agree with somebody on the issues that were raised at the time, and have a different idea on what bills should be there to be agreed or disagreed upon.

Answer 5

The Washington Post did a study of McCain voting record on the key issues and concluded that he only voted 43% with Bush.

Answer 6

MCain sided with Bush 90% of the time

Obama sided with Bush 85% of the time

That argument is for idiots!

Answer 7

I'm going to vote for the guy who sides with Carter 100% of the time.  How can that go wrong?

Answer 8

Sure why not. At least he has a side instead of voting "present" and doing nothing like Obama.  

Answer 9

30% of all statistics are made up....

Answer 10

better than voting NV most of the time.

Answer 11

I can't for the life of me figure out why people want more of the GOP

Tax Cuts:

Economic Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001:

Reduced lowest tax rate for 15% to 10%, and the highest from 39.6% to 35%. Obliterated a $230 BILLION surplus and created a $413 BILLION deficit. A study by the Tax Policy Center found that low- and middle-income Americans, the bottom 60% of Americans only recieved 13.7% of the tax cuts.

No Child Left Behind:

By the end of President Bush's first term, complaints about the administrations failure to fund the Act were shelling the White House.

Kyoto Protocol

Set requirements for 38 industrialized nations to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions. Bush pulled out of the treaty.

With the rejection of the protocol and the decision to withdraw from the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty, President Bush seemed to be leading the country on a road not traveled since after World War I, that of isolationism.

Domestic Policies

"This administration, in catering to industries that put America's health and natural heritage at risk, threatens to do more damage to our environmental protections than any other in U.S. history." - The National Resources Defense Council

He accused Democrats of wanting to make Social Security a Federal program, even though it HAS been a federal program since it's inception under Roosevelt. (lol)

I don't think I need to go into the War in Iraq.

"George Bush dispenses with people who confront him with inconvenient facts. He truly believes he's on a mission from God. Absolute faith like that overwhelms a need for analysis. The whole thing about faith is to believe things for which there is no empirical evidence, but you can't run the world on faith." - Bruce Bartlett, domestic policy advisor to Ronald Reagan

Speaking of Reagan, to be fair, Bush did reinstate one of Reagan's policies that stopped federal funds going to international organizations that advocated or paid for abortions.

Are you serious?  You still want these people in power? REALLY?

(The Democrats aren't any better)

Answer 12

No

I call him....mini me....

Answer 13

Lol at the guy saying "90% was made up" when there is video of McCain admitting this number

Answer 14

How could he have voted WITH Bush

Was Bush in the Senate voting too????

Answer 15

Sidekick

McCain saying he is the agent for change is laughable.

Answer 16

So did everyone else except a few idiots like Kennedy and Obama (when he actually voted that is)

Answer 17

No.

Answer 18

only by republicans

Answer 19

Yes to Senator Mc Cain.

Why don't you post the voting records so we can see what your referring to?  From what I understand much of the voting comes from both sides -  Democrats and Republicans and that would include Senator Obama.

Senator Mc Cain has been around longer than President Bush has been in office - think about it.

I feel what one needs to look at is the fact that Senator Obama isn't able to cross his Party while Senator Mc Cain has, for years.

Answer 20

Nope. Check out the issues that he sided with Bush on.

Answer 21

That is why I love John McCain and love Sarah Palin

they are sticking it to the Democrats and the Repubolicans

don't buy that Obama story of *change* or *joe blow biden*

as both are worse then an empty suit..they are both losing it badly

and now they have to throw in the GOP women to stop the bleeding

Obama is distancing himself from this election more and more

and he should have not been on the O'Reilly factor as he did not

answer the questions very well..  He looked like Richard Nixon

sweating and babbling about water gate..Obama should never debate

anyone with a higher IQ then he has..Obama brain just flips and flops

He would not say the Surge worked..and then he had to admit he was

wrong..but he is not man enough to run on his own..he needs a lot

of help and once again he runs to Hilary Clinton begging to be saved

Why?  why did not just Hilary Clinton run..what do we need a

Barack Obama for..window dressing that we are not racist or

:"yes we can" elect a minority?

Answer 22

Have you ever actually counted the times that Obama voted with Bush abd Mccain?  Then go count the times Obama voted "present," then go take your medicine.

Answer 23

Any Republican who EVER parts with their party; Even if it's 1% of the time, is considered a 'maverick' - By the standards of THAT party...

I don't think most Americans buy it. Mavericks are guys like Joe Lieberman, Jim Jeffords, and Chuck Hagel. McCain's voting record is so close to his partys' that he doesn't even come close to recent moderates like Ben Nelson or Lincoln Chaffee...  

Answer 24

Edith - the only thing I'm aware of that Obama sided with Bush on was back in 2005 on an energy bill - where are you coming up with that 85%.... gimme a credible link...

Answer 25

You are getting the 95% of the time thing confused.  He voted with Bush on things that all Republicans voted with him on.  Non-binding resolutions, as it were.  His (McCain's) environmental reform policy is often ignored by liberals, as well as his views on Immigration reform, which goes completely against Bush's plans.  If you looked at the crowds last night, you would have seen many signs held up that said "Environmentalists for McCain".  And don't let us forget that he is a proponent of embryonic stem cell research and leaving g*y marriage up to the states instead of making a federal issue out of it.  The sheeple in the Republican herd would rather see stem cell research and g*y marriage go away completely.

Answer 26

And voting present and ducking controversial issues is sooooo KEWL right?

Answer 27

He goes against Bush on the social issues.  Even the Democrats side with Bush on many of the other issues.

This is a pretty lame question.