Key Votes

Talk is cheap... and in today's inflated economy it's even worse. I took a brief look at Obama's Senate voting records recently and I wasn't surprised. Here's just a summary of a few interesting ones:

Obama wants to allow oil/gas from ANWR to be exported to other countries (HR 2863). 

He voted to cut defense spending by $33.73 billion in the 2009 fiscal year (Amdt. to HR 2642), voted AGAINST $69.98B in tax cuts/credits through 2010--twice (HR 4291, 97). He also voted to reinstate the 39.6% tax rate on anyone earning over $1 million and reinstate pre-May 2003 capital gains and dividends tax rates (Amdt. to S. 2020); and against reforming bankruptcy laws (S 256).

He supports importing prescription drugs from foreign countries (S Amdt. 4299). Meanwhile, voting AGAINST allowing families of children with disabilities to purchase Medicaid for their child (S 1932).

So, basically, along with only voting about half of the time (the other half of his record is filled with "NV"), Obama wants to cut the military budget which will inevitably make casualties a higher risk. Plus, he wants to keep families from buying Medicaid for their disabled children, while raising taxes (or at least not cutting them). And, he wants to export our oil and gas while importing our prescription medications.

That doesn't exactly sound like a winning plan to me. Not to mention that (although many politicians are) Sen. Obama seems to be at best unsure, and at worst, spineless as he "repeatedly refused to provide any responses to citizens on the issues through the 2008 Political Courage Test when asked to do so by national leaders of the political parties, prominent members of the media, [and] Project Vote Smart."