Howard Dean: John McCain Puts His Campaign Ahead of Working Families

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Howard Dean: John McCain Puts His Campaign Ahead of Working Families
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20080207/pl_usnw/howard_dean__john_mccain_puts_his_campaign_ahead_of_working_families

The Senate tonight voted on a bipartisan economic stimulus bill that would provide relief to millions of taxpayers, including seniors and disabled veterans. Needing 60 votes to move forward on the bill, supporters came one vote short, with one senator absent. The one missing senator: John McCain, who was too busy on the campaign trail to vote. The vote McCain skipped was on a timely, temporary and targeted proposal to provide assistance to 20 million additional American seniors and 250,000 disabled veterans, extend 13 weeks of additional unemployment insurance benefits to laid off workers, and help families avoid foreclosure and stay in their homes.

"John McCain had a chance to stand up for America's working families and help fix our ailing economy but chose to protect his campaign instead," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. "While he says one thing on the campaign trail, when the time came to act, John McCain was absent. America doesn't need four more years of a president who puts what's good for him ahead of what's good for our country."


McCain Caves To Far Right, Skips Vote On Economic Stimulus That He Promised To Support

John McCain (R-AZ) has been repeatedly claiming on the stump that passing an economic stimulus package is at the very top of his agenda. He has told audiences that the “first thing we gotta do is pass the stimulus package through the Senate.” During a Jan. 24 GOP debate, he explicitly pledged to vote on such legislation when it reached the Senate. Watch McCain make this promise on repeated occasions:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/06/mccain-stimulus/

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