Obama's Record of 'NOT VOTING'...

Please avail yourself to BHO's voting record here: http://obama.senate.gov/votes/index.cfm?start=1. Now count the 'Not Voting' (so-called) votes. Take 20 minutes to scan the 196 votes since 01/08/07. Shoot back to the 109th Congress (January '05) for more musings...For some reason, back in 4/05, be began his NOT VOTING career.

Here are a few of BHO's NON VOTES:

- A resolution expressing sympathy for the people of the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the deadly terrorist attacks on London on July 7, 2005.

- Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, to establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence, and for other purposes.

- To establish a bipartisan commission for the purpose of improving oversight and eliminating wasteful government spending under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

- A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend expiring provisions under the Medicare Program, to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, including pharmacy access, and for other purposes.

- A bill to provide needed housing reform and for other purposes.

- Gen. David H. Petraeus, in the Army, to be General

- Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, in the Army, to be General

- A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.

- A bill to provide energy price relief and hold oil companies and other entities accountable for their actions with regard to high energy prices, and for other purposes.

- A bill to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, and for other purposes.

- An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2008 and 2010 through 2013.

- To improve educational assistance for members of the Armed Forces and veterans in order to enhance recruitment and retention for the Armed Forces.

- A bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment.

...and this is uncanny. On 4/22/08 he NO VOTED on this:
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance life insurance benefits for disabled veterans, and for other purposes.

...on 4/23/08 he voted YEAH on this:
A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to clarify that adiscriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to the discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes.

...and then back to screwing the veterans one day later he NO VOTED this piece of legislation:
- To increase benefits for disabled U.S. veterans and provide a fair benefit to World War II Filipino veterans for their service to the United States.