McCain and GOP Votes Consistently Against Veterans

Stuart Steinberg writes McCain Consistently Works Against Veterans' Best Interests:

"John McCain does not support veterans. Like most Republicans, he regularly votes against legislation that would increase the VA budget for veterans' programs dealing with the problems facing our men and women returning from war. "

"That's a total of eight Republicans--out of 284--that supported veterans' issues more than 50% of the time. That's a whopping 2.8% of all the Republicans in the Congress. 200 Republican got 0 ratings!! Thus, 70.4% of the Republican members of Congress got zero ratings from the DAV [Disabled American Veterans] when it came to truly supporting America's veterans."

"Thus, the average Democrat on the House Committee was rated at 92; the average Republican was rated at 1.66. In the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, the average score of the eight Republicans on the Committee in 2005 was a lowly 40.7, while the five Democrats' and the one Independent's average was 92."

" John McCain's score for 2005 was 25 out of 100. In 2006, it was worse: he got a 20. "

"In 2005, Barack Obama was rated at 92. In 2006, Obama was an 80"