RE: Parsing IAVA (October 8, 2008) RE: IAVA Ties to Obama Campaign (October 8, 2008) RE: IAVA Returns Fire (October 8, 2008) RE: Obama Operatives or Straight Shooters? [IAVA and the Obama Campaign] (October 10, 2008) RE: IAVA & the Obama [podcast] (October 10, 2008) RE: IAVA Analysis (October 13, 2008) RE: Paul Rieckhoff from the IAVA Re-Responds (October 13, 2008) RE: BlackFive on the IAVA Scorecard in Congressional Quarterly (October 27, 2008) As you can probably tell from the above references to the 2008 IAVA Scorecard, we don't exactly see eye-to-eye with the IAVA on how they rate our politicians on veterans issues. To be fair, we also posted IAVA's responses to our problems with it's Scorecard and my analysis of their organization's history. TSO, at the most excellent This Ain't Hell, wrote a rather long but well-written post about the IAVA Scorecard and, more importantly, scorecards in general. Again, this is a critique more of Scorecards in general, and less of IAVA. Last year I bashed on IAVA personally, but this year, I am not doing so, because I believe at the least they made a good faith effort. TSO, believes like I do, that the IAVA leadership supports veterans. Which makes you wonder how you come to a conclusion to support a scorecard with the following results for the Senate: Democrats receiving “A” scores: Begich (AK), Boxer (CA), Gillibrand (NY), Johnson (SD), Lautenberg (NJ), Lincoln (AR), Schumer (NY). Stabenow (MI), Wyden (OR). Republicans receiving “A” scores: None. Democrats receiving “D” or “F” scores: Feingold (WI) Republicans receiving “D” or “F” Scores: (Too many to list, there are 32 of them) So, of Democrats, 15% got “A”’s, and less than 2% got in the bottom scores. On the contrary, 78% of Republicans failed. Now, there are two potential things to look at here. Either Republicans fail to espouse and vote for positions that benefit veterans, or the methodology here is flawed. Go to This Ain't Hell to read the whole post and see what TSO concludes. Either it's a scam to get us to believe the scorecard is bi-partisan or IAVA is completely idiotic. Or no one should do scorecards.
Read the complete post at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Blackfive/~3/ed6CexteyIc/the-latest-iava-scorecard-better-title-how-to-fool-vets.html
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