Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said cost is the “big impediment” for the committee to reach a deal before Congress leaves on its annual summer recess.Nothing really new for McCain. He still forgets there is a thing called the internet and everything he says in public is on the record. Everything he does, including voting against veterans is also public record, after all, his paycheck, just like all the other politicians, comes from the Federal Government.
McCain got slammed really good many times but in 2010 he was attacked because he was blocking a the bill with Sgt. Coleman Bean's name on for suicide prevention. John McCain and Why Sgt. Coleman Bean Had to Die. In the article there was this reminder of just how lousy McCain has been all along on veterans issues.
FactCheck.org, a non-profit, non-partisan, consumer advocacy project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, says that McCain is being treated unduly harshly because he did later vote for other bills that benefited veterans:
“In 2004, he voted against an increase of $1.8 billion, voted for an increase of $1.2 billion passed by unanimous consent,”
“In 2005, he voted against an increase of $2.8 billion, but voted for a $410-million increase.”
“In 2006, he voted against a $1.5 billion increase, but later voted for an $823 million increase.”
In 2007 he voted against a 2007 supplemental spending bill for the Iraq War that ended up being vetoed by President Bush – a bill that included $1.77 billion in additional funding for veterans’ health care benefits.
Afterward, McCain voted for slightly more money, $1.79 billion, to be used for the same purpose.
First time he got slammed? Hardly. He has been blasted over and over again for failing the veterans he claims.
In 2008 "John McCain: Vets' Worst Enemy" hit the Miami New Times and veterans were glad it finally did. It is about time people saw McCain for what he was under his suit.
"I know the veterans and I know them well," he said, his voice shaky with emotion. "And I know that they know that I'll take care of them. And I've been proud of their support and of their recognition of my service to the veterans. And I love them, and I'll take care of them. And they know that I'll take care of them." No McCain only partly right. Veterans do know you and they don't trust a single word you say about them.
They know how he voted and it is never, ever for them.
McCain didn't take responsibility for anything in the Senate Armed Services Committee and as for the Veterans Affairs Committee, he never once served on it. Veterans noticed. They also noticed that as for what he's done for the troops it was not about them but was about the defense contractors that could fund his endless re-election run. The only time he seemed willing to accept some responsibility was on the Walter Reed scandal.
"I will take responsibility for being a member of the Armed Services Committee and not knowing about it and not doing anything about it," McCain told the New York Times in March 2007, adding, "I apologize for my failure" to act and "I should be held accountable."
But with McCain any spending on veterans is always just too generous and too expensive.
More famously, he actively opposed the most recent GI Bill, stating that its education benefits were so generous that he worried it would encourage military personnel to leave the service. Even his conservative colleague and ally, John Warner, the Republican senator from Virginia, supported the bill, but McCain wouldn't budge; he didn't bother to show up for the final vote.
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