Jim Talent flaunts his seat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, but he has skipped 65 of 95 meetings of that body. In a time of war. The IAVA - Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America have given him a D- for his votes against veterans. He voted against giving our troops the best body armor. Still today he insists if we could take a mulligan, we shouldn't, invasion was the right thing to do.He claims he is independent, yet he votes with this feckless faithless president a staggering 94% of the time. And has the audacity to say that maybe we have it backwards, George Bush agrees with him 94% of the time.
He supoports giving this president expanded authority to wiretap United States citizens.. But when Clinton wanted to expand the authority to wiretap in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Jim talent voted against the very law he now supports.
But this is the topper in my book - with a straight face he takes Claire to task for her husbands tax shelters - and his wife is a tax attorney who helps people set up tax shelters.
That word? It's chutzpah. Vote Tuesday.
