What do you think about McCain's record on the environment?

Question

"In the 2007 National Environmental Scorecard released today by the League of Conservation Voters, John McCain receives a score of ZERO. McCain was the only member of Congress to skip every single crucial environmental vote scored by the organization, posting a score lower than Members of Congress who were out for much of the year due to serious illnesses--and even lower than some who died during the term. By contrast, the average Member of Congress scored a 53 in 2007. McCain posts a lifetime score of only 24."

http://www.sierraclub.org/pressroom/releases/pr2008-02-21.asp

McCain seems to take global warming and the environment more seriously than the other Republican candidates, but can we trust him as president when he's skipped every important environmental vote in the Senate?

Answer 1

mc cain needs to go s***w himself.....hes a total jerk!

Answer 2

he has many problems. Just getting his friends to vote for him may be the biggest.

Answer 3

He's a Republican, Ruckelshaus-style Republicans went out of fashion with Reagan's inauguration.  Anyway, I think there are far deeper reasons not to trust him as president.  

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/vie...

Answer 4

Isn't the sierra club a Communist front!!!! Find  a better source because he is pitiful and people will laugh at us for using this as any proof

Answer 5

In many indigenous cultures, not saying anything is the strongest no vote of them all. It demonstrates that the issue is so negative or so unimportant to that person that it does not even deserve an acknowledgment.

Next time you go through a reservation and the Native Americans look away from you and say nothing, to them it is more powerful than getting in your face and telling you why they hate you so much.

I doubt that the Mac Candidate has any knowledge of our indigenous cultures, and just thinks there are better things to do than be bothered by voting for our relationship with the planet one way or the other.

Answer 6

I was under the impression that McCain was a moderate Republican, but I read a lot of that report and it really takes the covers off that misconception.

Now I suspect that his whole image as a moderate is a media play to get people to accept him as a Bush replacement, when in fact the party may plan on either having McCain reneg on campaign comittments (as Bush did) or retiring McCain partway into the presidency for "health reasons" and having a much more hardline Republican take over.

The current noise from the ultra-conservatives may simply be a strategy to install that hardline conservative VP as a "compromise," when in fact any VP has to be considered as a potential future president.

In any case, McCain's environmental record ties him at the bottom of all senators, alongside James "Fossil Fules Gave me $500,000" Inhofe.  That's truly creepy.  

It's a no-brainer for me this election.  With McCain extremely anti-environment and similar extremists as alternatives, there is no moderate Republican candidate and I can't even consider voting Republican.  

I'll have to see who between Obama and Clinton seems poised to do the least damage.  At least if the Republican veto departs the White House, we may be able to repair some of the damage done to the U.S. Constitution.  Some minor costs in budget (dealing with the billions in corporate subsidies and the irresponsible tax cuts that were actually a huge giveaway to the ultra-wealthy) will be more than offset in hundreds of billions in savings as the war winds down.

I'm no Democrat but I won't stand by and see our Democracy permanently dismantled by acts such as these:

- unauthorized, unsupervised surveillance of citizens (including those not suspected of any crimes)

- denial of due process - indefinite holding of suspects who have not been formally accused of any criminal charge

- torture of suspects, in violation of international law

- refusing to turn over international fugitives to face trial for war crimes

- covert military action in countries where no war has been declared (Pakistan)

- assignment of political appointees to government offices to ensure complete unilateral control of all branches and functions of government

- denial of freedom of speech, controlling the media, censoring and editing federal scientists' research reports

- evading congressional and judiciary probes into administration behavior, including destruction of evidence

Bush brought us to the brink of fascism.  We need to take a huge step back away from that edge

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Hitler's Playbook: Bush and the Abuse of Power

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/dave30...

"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." (Benito Mussolini, Encyclopedia Italiana)

14 Points of fascism

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts....

Victims of Creeping Fascism

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info...

"When a sitting president declares that the constitution is just “A God damned piece of paper,” it reveals much about his inner character; or lack thereof. "

"As the debate in Congress continues, it was revealed this week that the Pentagon has been engaged in spying on American citizens who participate in the anti-war movement. Whenever a state has the military spying upon citizens who are peacefully engaged in lawful protests against the systematic killing, imprisonment, and torture of millions of fellow human beings, you are witnessing not only the ugly reality of creeping fascism—you are bearing witness to the emergence of a bonified police state. In this instance we are witnessing the criminalization of dissent. The thought police are moving among us. They are watching our every move. They are monitoring all of our electronic communications. They are preparing a place for us in the hinterland of America."

Answer 7

Whats your point?  The best thing for the environment is if Congress kept out of it.  Coming from a logging family, the government our the last people I want solving our environmental problems.

Answer 8

I like him a lot better know.