Clean energy? McCain couldn't lift a finger

This is something I'll remember in November when someone tells me that McCain is the one. Following are the first paragraphs of an email that came in from the Sierra Club, reporting that the "moderate" and "centrist" and "uniter" John McCain couldn't be bothered to vote on a good measure.

Dear Larry,

Last night one vote prevented the Senate from advancing an economic stimulus package that included important clean energy incentives -- a key addition to the package passed by the House last week.

Even though John McCain was in Washington last night, he was the only Senator who missed the vote, and he insured its defeat. This latest vote against clean energy comes at a time when McCain's speeches are full of promises to increase America's use of clean energy and calls to his fellow Senators to pass the stimulus package "to get some people back to work, and get our economy going, and get some investment in our economy." [PBS, NewsHour, 2/1/08]

Big talk, no action.