Voted against a bill declaring the third Monday in January a federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Voted to cut off federal assistance to public schools that prohibit prayer in school.

Voted to strike provisions of the Racial Justice Act that would prohibit the death sentence in state and federal cases if a defendant could prove with statistical or other evidence that the race of the victim played a role in sentencing.

Voted against a 1996 bill to prohibit job discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Voted against measures to increase the minimum wage, against a woman's right to choose, and with Bush 91 percent of the time last year.

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McCain on equal pay: ‘I don’t think you’re doing anything to help the rights of women.’

Last month, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) skipped the vote on the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which would have made it easier for women and other workers to pursue pay discrimination claims. At the time, McCain explained his opposition to the bill by saying that instead of equal pay protection, women simply needed “education and training.“ Asked about his opposition to the bill at a townhall today, McCain told a 14-year old girl that he didn’t think protections for equal pay would do “anything to help the rights of women“:


McCain has a long record of failure on women’s issues, earning him a 0 percent rating from NARAL ProChoice America six years in a row, from 2001-2007.

And it was comical watching McCain, who supported Bush 95% of the time in the past year, trying to distance himself:


Which is quite different than what he had to say last month:


So, according to John McCain, John McCain is second to no one in supporting the mismanagement of a war that has cost more than 4,000 American lives. That must be some of that judgement that McCain is always talking about.

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