I have to wonder – is it because his campaign staff is needed back at their real jobs?
I have to hand it to McCain, as this strategy of running away – Palin from scruitiny, Davis from the press, and McCain from the campaign itself – certainly is novel. I hope the Obama campaign sticks with the debate on Friday. I’d very much like to hear McCain explain how the approach he and his fellow dereg fetishists didn’t contribute mightily to the present situation.
Update: I knew that McCain was (by far) the most-absent Senator, which I didn’t entirely begrudge (unless he was leveling hypocritical charges about the same thing). I didn’t, however, realize it was this bad:
The prodigal son returns. John McCain has announced that America is finally confronting a crisis that he doesn’t feel he can be absent for.
Some fun facts about John McCain: Of all Senators, John McCain has been the most absent. There have been 643 votes taken in the current Senate session: McCain has missed 412 of them.
McCain has not voted in the Senate since April 8th. Since March, he has missed 109 of the last 110 votes.
He missed votes on the GI Bill, energy policy, and in 2007 he missed “all 15 critical environmental votes in the Senate” — giving him a 2007 rating of 0% from the League of Conservation Voters. [emphasis supplied]
And *now* he feels like he’s got something to contribute? Heh. Thanks but no thanks.