A free pass

Republicans for Environmental Protection lets McCain off the hook for missing important votes

Posted by David Roberts at 10:53 AM on 29 May 2008

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Yesterday, Republicans for Environmental Protection issued their annual scorecard for 2007.

Party standard bearer Sen. John McCain missed every vote they scored. (For more on that, see here.)

So what did REP do? Give him a score of zero? No, they just didn't score him at all.

Nice to see calculated political cowardice rewarded. With a bang-up start like this, I'm sure we'll see REP holding McCain's feet to the fire throughout the campaign!

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Self Contradiction

The concept of a group of Republicans for Environmental Protection is an oxymoron. Republicans prioritize money, business, and property rights above all else. None of these things can be reconciled with protection and restoration of the natural environment, let alone greatly reducing or eliminating pollution. This group is a combination of self deceived people who want to have their cake and eat it, too, and a propaganda tool of the Republican Party in order to get support from people who are concerned about the environment and should not be taken seriously by anyone who is so concerned.

by Wolverine at 12:10 PM on 29 May 2008

Duck McCain

Important environmental vote coming up? Duck!

Now there's a meme that can take off!

Quack, quack, quack

That guy is daffy.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck...

And so on.

by setb at 12:39 PM on 29 May 2008

This is why...

...the League of Conservation Voters is more reliable as an organization than the Republicans for Environmental Protection.

by Tasermons Partner at 2:21 PM on 29 May 2008

REP is a joke.

It isn't just the missed votes. REP also plugs McCain in spite of his abysmmal career LCV voting score of 24 percent, and REP took some cheap shots at the Sierra Club for telling the truth about McCain's stinking record. I challenge anyone to go to www.lcv.org, look up all the individual Senate votes his career score was based on, and tell me John McCain has a decent environmental record. Moreover, McCain has recently promised he'd appoint more Supreme Court justices in the mold of Alito and Roberts -- bad justices, if you care about protecting the environment. McCain isn't Reagan or Bush, but if that qualifies you as enviromentally acceptable, we haven't just lowered the bar -- there is no bar.

by davedenali at 10:40 AM on 30 May 2008

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