‘Maverick’
Feb 16th, 2007 at 12:47 pm by Dr. S
John McCain wants to have his cake and deny eating it, too.
Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, of Arizona, a staunch supporter of sending more troops to Iraq, will skip a Senate vote on the war Saturday to campaign in Iowa while other candidates rearrange their schedules.
In control of the Senate, Democrats called the rare Saturday session for the procedural vote. They need 60 votes to advance a nonbinding resolution criticizing President George W. Bush’s plan to boost the number of U.S. forces in the nearly four-year-old war.
