A few more days to rally the troops to call or contact their Senators, especially if they are Republicant. This is not optional folks, peoples’ lives are literally on the line if this passes.
Trump: Obama is now giving cancer to Republican senators. He will do anything to prevent TrumpCare.
If McCain finds himself able to go directly from a hospital visit to the Capitol in order to vote to take away healthcare from his constituents, I think I will want to scream and break everything in sight.
of course, I wouldn’t put it past him.
sometimes, despite all the evidence, I still can’t believe human beings can be as awful as these congresspeople are. And yet, they are. If McCain proves me wrong, then I’ll be very happy to be wrong.
Chaffetz rode in on his little scooter to strip people of their health care, so I wouldn’t put it past McCain.
I wouldn’t put it past him either. But the irony is painful. Did Chaffetz ride his scooter directly from the hospital? I mean, if they delay a vote on this so that a Senator who is at this very moment receiving quality healthcare can show up to vote to take it away from others… I mean… what could be more cynical and awful than that?
If McCain has any humanity left, he might try thinking about how great it is that he’s getting this wonderful health care, as he’s lying there recovering in his hospital bed, and not turn around and screw us out of it.
But I won’t hold my breath, that’s for sure.
In a perfect world Sid McCrashcup would be left blind and then dropped off in the desert somewhere outside of Eloy.
I hope he lives to see his party crash and burn.
That’s my wish.
Let me get this straight. The reason why McConnell is delaying a vote on taking away Healthcare from millions of people is because another Senator needed Healthcare? It’s gotten to the point that I have no second doubts whatsoever about how soulless McConnell actually is.
Pre-existing conditions are okay if you are a Republican with more houses than you can keep track of.
McCain is 80 and has had 3 cancer removals and now this. I can’t believe that our health outcomes are based on this grumpy old geezers whims.
Time isn’t doing this tax cut disguised as a healthcare bill any favors. The stink is beginning to permeate throughout the entire GOP and Trounces lies that he wouldn’t touch Medicaid are glaring and blatant lies easy for all to see now.
Heller may be the key in fact so all you Nevadans need to hammer him in the upcoming weeks.
Even if your Senators are D, contact them and ask them to make noise about the bloody irony in this move.
Trump doesn’t like people who have been captured.
Just wait until He finds out McCrashcup had a growth in his own head longer than His baby-maker lol 
I think we can guess how McCain is likely to vote - after recovering from his taxpayer-funded health care procedure. Damn, I hate these guys.
The dude had a two inch blood clot pulled out of his noggin and the big worry is that he can’t make it to the vote?
McConnell isn’t worried about shit else but passing this pig, not us, not McCain and not the nation, just gimme 51 votes and let me retire with a knife in Obamas back and fat pockets.
This is how dishonest McCain and his camp are. This was not an eye problem. The blood clot was up against his brain, inside his skull. He had a craniotomy -brain surgery- to evacuate it. The blood clot had to be removed because it was pressing against his brain -and a 5cm subdural hematoma is huge. It certainly explains the weird questioning of Comey. But to describe this as a “blood clot near the eye” is just willful deception.
Not at all clear from this how the clot got there.
A subdural or epidural hematoma is generally the result of some trauma, but in an 80+ year old the trauma can be fairly trivial. Such a bleed would be outside the brain itself, thus could be reached with "a minimally invasive craniotomy“, though I’m not sure that I would think of any surgery that entered my skull to be minimally invasive.
What’s odd about this being a subdural or epidural hematoma is this talk of waiting on biopsy results. These hematomas result from trauma. Why biopsy trauma? If there was no trauma, but instead a mass associated with the bleed, maybe you would biopsy that.
Based on this spotty info, the way I would put this together is that they had to do surgery on an urgent basis to evacuate a growing hematoma associated with an intracranial mass, but they also removed at least part of the mass – maybe the whole thing. They don’t want to talk about the mass yet and what that might be, so they just let the hospital mention the clot to the public
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I agree. Histologic analysis of clot would have no bearing on subsequent treatment or prognosis. They had to have biopsied a mass.
I assumed he had an ischemic stroke. There is a procedure where they can pull the clot out via cath - which is minimally invasive.
Having been through something sorta like this not too long ago, I can understand why they don’t want to use the words “brain surgery” because people assume craniotomy and/or profound disability when they hear those words.
Well, whatever, I wish the selfish bastard well in his recovery, because it’s just not in my nature to do otherwise for anyone. I don’t for a moment believe this incident will change his mind on health care though - if he were ever going empathize, he’s had plenty of prior opportunities.