Discussion: BREAKING: O'Care Repeal Survives In Senate, But GOP Still Has No Plan

[randyabraham]

So much for their mandate.

[darrtown]

Holee cats…a duel? With pistols type duel? I bet neither Collins nor Farenthold are happy that recording got around…

[georgeh]

Thanks for your thoughtful note. I do understand your point of view.

I hope that you also remember that McCain was a big supporter of the Iraq War and made jokes about wanting to “bomb, bomb, Iran.” Killing people has never seemed to be something that bothered him.

Unlike you, McCain is a callous un-empathetic person, as his vote today demonstrated again.

[tena]

That’s not all the mic picked up and I think this is a much bigger story. It also picked up a conversation she was having with the Democrat from Rhode Island, Jack Reed, in which they acknowledged, and Reed said, the president is insane. Collins ended it by saying she’s worried.

This is a much bigger deal than what the exchange was between her and that dickless brainless overstuffed idiot from south Texas.

[darrtown]

What i listed was just the hospital fee. The surgeon’s bill was an additional $2,500 which i thought reasonable by comparison.

[sandi]

Told you. Don’t know why so many expected him to be a savior…

Discussion: McCain Will Return To Senate For O'Care Vote At Around 2:45 PM ET

Dollars to donuts he is voting for repeal. In spite of his bipartisan image he has been a reliable Repub for years. Way too close to too many lobbyists for too many years. Bitter irony, leaving your hospital bed to kick others out.

[clare]

None of the Dems would dare say it, but if his little episode at one of the hearings is any indication, the cancer might have already rendered him mentally unsound. I don’t mean that to be mean, or as a joke, but he was obviously dealing with something more than fatigue and normal confusion. Bringing him in to vote on this is just disgusting.

[commiedearest]

Really? Says the troll who’s okay with 25 - 30 million people losing access to healthcare.

[clare]

they acknowledged, and Reed said, the president is insane.

There must be quite a few of those conversations behind closed doors. Trump is especially unhinged lately.

[tena]

O I think so and he really is day by day getting crazier.

[phillip]

I imagined such as well, but it surprises me that he would be so drastic about it. After all, I doubt he’ll be getting re-elected now that he has been diagnosed with brain cancer. (And why would he want to? I’m sure he’s got family and friends that would make better company in his twilight than political operatives.)

Either a lot of people cashed their favor-chips, or he just isn’t thinking clearly.

And, I wish that last point was just a loathsome, inappropriate, joke.

[drtv]

That is reasonable. I am sure there are surgeons who charge a lot more.

[pmaroneyb]

Speaking as someone who has a brain tumor,

Thank you for sharing your story. I hope your progress is positive. Agree that this is unconscionable of the GOP. I am scared and furious.

[ohcomeonnow]

Whatever. You are Pee’s “hero” and that’s the badge of honor you’ve just earned and will carry to the grave…
https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/889927005113905152

He has been Senile for decades.

[maxwellsdemon]

Especially fuck Capito, who is already vomiting out some drivel about how this will help her constituents when she knows it will ruin them.

Her official new name is capitulato

[brucea]

John McCain was visited by the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come. The next morning, he stole Tiny Tim’s crutch.

[maxwellsdemon]

Re: McCain
When you show yourself to be a brave young man during an unjust war, your future is not sealed. You can come home and, like John Kerry, advocate against that war so that your compatriots (and people on the other side) stop dying. If you do that, whether you become a president or not, and regardless of what people say about you contemporaneously, the history will remember you as a hero. Or you can come home and, like John McCain, take health coverage from your fellow citizens. If you do that, whether you become a president or not, and regardless of what people say about you contemporaneously, the history will remember you as a villain.

This /\ !!!

[maxwellsdemon]

I agree. McCain is a sleaze, always has been a sleaze. He is no maverick - he is all talk but when it counts, he falls right in line. Always. What a disgusting SOB, to benefit from healthcare that he would deny others.

Physical courage is often, in fact usually, easier than moral courage
Exhibit 1: john mccain (who no longer deserves caps).

[maxwellsdemon]

I remember you being from Texas, not sure what part. Still you must cringe whenever one of those idiots your state has sent to D.C. lights up the internet, I lie in FL now and I know I sure feel that way when one of our clowns starts glowing. At least I grew up in MA and have Kerry and Warren, you had Jordan and Richards.

[xpurg8d]

Makes no sense if his intentions are for the general welfare.

I think you answered your own question. Looks like his intentions are NOT for the general welfare. I consider this the final and definitive exposition of McCain’s true character – we’re seeing what he does when he’s got nothing to lose, and it’s not a pretty picture.