I thought he was the one Rep. that was going to make positive green changes! Erm,,, Maybe it is an honet mistake, but its a very grave mistake! Maybe his old aged memory is failing him!

I see three plausible scenarios here:

McCain would have voted in favor if he were there, but couldn't fit it into his campaign schedule.

McCain supported the bill, but didn't want to make a public statement that might cost him votes against the Romney/Huckabee lunatic fringe and found it convenient to be elsewhere.

McCain wouldn't have voted in favor if he were there and chose not to be there to avoid losing his green cred.

McCain wouldn't have voted in favor if he were there, but couldn't be there anyway because of his campaign schedule.

I don't claim to know which is true, but it bears at least keeping in mind that the first two are possible.  If it's (1), shame on Harry Reid for not scheduling the vote to accomodate his schedule (such is the challenge of holding votes during the election season).  If it's (2), shame on the lunatic-fringe.  And if it's (3) or (4), McCain bashing is in order.  But we ought to at least bear in mind that there are other possibilities before passing judgment.

The Green industries don't need stimulus.
Their growing by leaps and bounds.

As much as I really, really, really wish that were true, it isn't.  Do ya really think that wind power would've grown close to 50% in the last year alone without stimulus?

Just take at look at the growth in the industry in the years when stimulus was removed.  It wasn't very much at all.

...the bill also included stimulus for coal.  We may not get the green power, but at least we won't get the blackened power either.