(yeah, after much googling, my source is the democratic party’s own website, but you try looking for comprehensive mlk day history on the rnc’s page….)

1983: McCain Voted Against Law Creating National Martin Luther King Holiday. In 1983, McCain voted against passing a bill to designate the third Monday of every January as a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. That was the year the holiday was passed into law, supported by 338 members of the House and 78 members of the Senate.
[1983 House Vote #289, 8/2/1983; 1983 Senate Vote #303]

1987: McCain Supports AZ Governor’s Effort to Rescind Martin Luther King Day As State Holiday. In 1987, Arizona Governor Evan Mecham rescinded “what he termed an illegal executive order by his predecessor, Democrat Bruce Babbitt, to establish a state holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.” Speaking to the Arizona Teenage Republican Convention, when asked about Mecham’s decision to rescind the holiday, “McCain said that he felt Mecham was correct in rescinding the holiday.”
[Washington Post, 1/14/1987; Phoenix Gazette, 4/13/1987]

1989: McCain Urged Lawmakers To Create State Holiday, But Expressed Opposition To Federal Holiday. In 1989, McCain expressed his support for a state law recognizing an Arizona Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. But, McCain said, “I’m still opposed to another federal holiday. . .but I support the (Arizona) Martin Luther King holiday because of the enormous proportions this issue has taken on as far as the image of our state and our treatment towards not only blacks but all minorities.”
[Phoenix Gazette, 5/2/1989]

1992: McCain Endorsed Proposition Creating State Holiday. “McCain endorsed Proposition 300, which would establish a paid state holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.”
[Phoenix Gazette, 10/28/1992]

1994: McCain Voted To Strip Federal Funding From the MLK Federal Holiday Commission. In 1994, McCain voted to prohibit federal funds for the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission. The Commission was established in 1984 “to encourage the observance of King’s birthday.” According to Al King, head of the California chapter of the commission, the organization “helped keep ’senators’ and representatives’ feet to the fire to recognize the holiday.’” [1994 Senate Vote #127, 5/24/1994; Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 5/24/1995, 5/26/1995]

At best, these people are predictable; at worse, they are base liars.

We recently go a progressive radio station in town, but it is almost unlistenable. About the only one I can stomach on the left these days is Thom Hartmann and Ed Schultz. The right is even worse; sometimes Micahel Savage, and Bill Bennett on occassion, but the big names have just become so shrill and unfunny as to be intolerable.

Listening to talk radio is like sitting next to the cool kids table in Junior High–they think so highly of their own selves, they cannot even consider an idea that hasn’t bloviated from their own mouths