Some additional reading September 14th from 12:15 to 18:31:
- Comparisons: Last Installment – "Continuing (and, mercifully, ending) the comparisons made in my last two posts: McCain's and Obama's co-sponsored legislation in the 109th Congress. Criteria, caveats, etc., are the same as before: no purely ceremonial legislation; no legislation that just calls for a report or expresses the sense of the Senate; no legislation that appropriates less than $40 million, and does nothing else; no legislation of purely local interest. The list is below the fold."
- Think Progress- John McCain’s 43 Flip-Flops – I actually think there are more, but these are pretty well documented. How did McCain ever get a reputation as a "Straight Talker" anyway? Wait, don't answer, because it makes me sick to my stomach thinking about the number of times between now and November that I'll hear about "Bullshit Walker, Straight Talker" McCain. My neighbor said with straight face that McCain voted with Bush only 5% of the time (not 95% of the time). So-called low information voters have been misled for so long, they think they have the facts when the facts are really quite different.