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What's Tammy Baldwin up to?

Out Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI-02) has been busy in the last couple of weeks. Besides fulfilling her regular duties in the U.S. House of Representatives, she also has:

♦ expressed concern about the "very bellicose tone this administration has sounded on Iran";
♦ voted to override Bush's veto of the Medicare bill to delay cuts in physician payments;
♦ stood in solidarity with the Dalai Lama;
♦ held a conference call with other prominent Wisconsin women to laud Sen. Barack Obama's plans for women and for the working class and to criticize Sen. John McCain's lack of leadership; and
♦ helped move forward improvements for Madison's Dane County Regional airport.

Sources: Kathleen Masterson, The Capital Times; Ellyn Ferguson, Green Bay Press-Gazette; John Nichols, The Capital Times; Steven Elbow, The Capital Times; Craig gilbert, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; and Channel 3000.

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McCain on gay issues in the New York Times

Republican soon-to-be presidential nominee John McCain sat down with the New York Times for yesterday's edition and revealed yet again that he can double-talk with the best of them. Among other revelations: a child would be better off a) being adopted by a drunk, divorced adulterer and his drug-addicted second wife or b) in an orphanage than c) being adopted by a loving gay couple.

He's not too old to be president, but his ideas certainly are.

...Q: President Bush believes that gay couples should not be permitted to adopt children. Do you agree with that?

Mr. McCain: I think that we've proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no I don’t believe in gay adoption.

Q: Even if the alternative is the kid staying in an orphanage, or not having parents.

Mr. McCain: I encourage adoption and I encourage the opportunities for people to adopt children I encourage the process being less complicated so they can adopt as quickly as possible. And Cindy and I are proud of being adoptive parents.

Q: But your concern would be that the couple should [be] a traditional couple

Mr. McCain: Yes....

Q: I think the one difference is whether or not as a condition of getting these [federal faith based] monies, that these organization say they will not take into account religion or other factors in hiring decisions.

Mr. McCain: Obviously it’s very complicated because if this is an organization that says we want people in our organization that are Baptists or vegetarians or whatever it is, they should not be required to hire someone that they don't want to hire in my view. Listen, this is the kind of the issue that goes on with the Boy Scouts, it goes on with a number of other issues. I think the president's faith-based organization has been successful and I support what he has done

Q: I guess the way opponents describe it means that these groups are allowed to discriminate in hiring.

Mr. McCain: I can only answer it to say that I think faith-based organizations have been one of the more successful parts of the Bush Administration and I would continue it....

Q: If California wants to legalize gay marriage, should it be permitted to do so?

Mr. McCain: I respect the rights of the states to make those decisions. I obviously am personally in favor of preserving the unique status of marriage between man and woman. And I also would point out that we passed a thing called the Defense of Marriage Act, which I know you’re familiar with, where we said that states were not required to recognize in their states the decision that other states made. In other words, if the state of Massachusetts recognized marriage between man and --- had allowed same-sex marriage, that does not mean that that decision can be imposed on the state of Arizona. The state of Arizona will make that decision.

Q: But if the state wanted to do it on the own, you would not support taking action to stop it?

Mr. McCain: If the people wanted to amend the constitution in order to support the unique status, affirm the unique status, I certainly would support that. But if they decide not to, that's a state decision that's made by the state.

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Should McCain be considered AWOL from the Senate?

Republican presidential nominee-to-be John McCain (R-AZ) has missed more votes than any other senator since the current Congress. According to the Washington Post, McCain has missed 374 out of 605 possible votes.

McCain has missed more votes than Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD), who had a brain hemorrhage and collapsed; or Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), who was diagnosed with a brain tumor and began chemotherapy. McCain has missed more votes than the 57 best-attending senators combined (they missed 371 among them).

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Soundbite

"...if flip-flopping were an Olympic sport, John McCain would be the first 72-year-old to win a gold medal."

-- Paul Begala on CNN's Situation Room

John McCain vogues

This is one of the entries in Stephen Colbert's Make McCain Exciting competition:

The wife John McCain callously left behind

The London Daily Mail has a devastating portrait of John McCain's marital infidelities. We all knew he was an adulterer, but to alley-cat around when your wife is recovering from injuries that almost killed her is beyond sleazy.

Like Bob Dole, McCain dumped the wife who nursed him back from ill health in favor of some trophy arm candy, thereby condemning their children to be raised in a single parent household. Like Newt Gingrich, he dumped her as she herself was recovering from a devastating life-threatening condition. And like Vito Fossella, he was stepping out while the unsuspecting wife was home caring for the kids.

When you run with dogs, you smell like dogs. John McCain is ethically no more fit to lead this country than Rudy Giuliani -- which is to say not at all.

Divorced adulter John McCain talks marriage with Ellen

Ellen: "So, you'll walk me down the aisle?"

Still pals

Vito Fossella is still a drunk-driving adulterer, and John McCain still wants him as one of his supporters.

Will McCain pull the endorsement only upon a conviction or resignation? We'll keep checking.

John McCain and Vito Fossella are still pals

Family values brigade: Vito Fossella,
   John McCain, Rudy Giuliani

Republican presidential soon-to-be-nominee John McCain isn't letting a little tavern trashing, drunk driving, and winky wagging get between him and his little buddy Vito Fossella. At this writing, Senator McCain is still proud to have Rep. Fossella listed as one of his New York supporters on his campaign web site.

A word of caution to the Senator, though: when you run with dogs, you smell like dogs. Having serial adulterers like Vito and Rudy Giuliani as your wing men doesn't play well with the religious crowd. Or the Main Street crowd. Or the progressive crowd.

Come to think of it, the whole adultery thing didn't play too well with the first Mrs. McCain either, did it?

McCain called own wife the C-word

Really. See Raw Story.

McCain on Falwell, 2000 and 2007

Jerry Falwell died earlier today. Compare and contrast statements made about Mr. Falwell in 2000 by GOP Presidential candidate John McCain versus Mr. McCain's statement today:

2000: Those like Jerry Falwell who "practice [division and slander] in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country....Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance." Falwell is among the "people who have turned good causes into businesses."

2007: "Dr. Falwell was a man of distinguished accomplishment who devoted his life to serving his faith and country."