Unless I’m missing something, the heroic lion of the Senate John McCain voted in favor of this grotesque abortion of health care legislation. JMFC what a fraudulent poser asshole.
Was this a vote on the bill or a vote to cross the 60 vote threshhold? If the former, Capito, Portman and McCain all voted to gut Medicaid, didn’t they?
Just coming on here to mention that. He specifically said less than 8 hours ago that he was voting against this bill? Did the tumor make him forget?
Fifty-seven senators opposed the measure known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), while 43 supported it, portending a difficult road ahead for the GOP rollback effort.
McCain took to the floor after voting to move ahead and declared, “I will not vote for the [BCRA] as it is today. It’s a shell of a bill right now.”
OK can the pundits stop with the “his vote was not near as important as his words after” when it comes to Senator McCain. Yes he spoke passionately about “regular order” and “in the open” after his YES vote on a motion to proceed on legislation to kill the ACA, the signature legislation of the man that beat him in 2008, but then he voted YES again on the Better Care Reconciliation Act. Derived in that irregular order and not inf the open. Can we please stop citing the just side of McCain’s duplicity we like to associate him with?
Small side note: Ana Navarro, whatever personal virtues she has, is a crazy right winger. They ALL are insane, when it comes to policy.
“I will not vote for the [BCRA] as it is today. It’s a shell of a bill right now.”
So why in the fuck did he vote FOR that “shell of a bill?” Am I missing some arcane point of legislative maneuvering, or is McCain suffering the effects of his surgery and tumor?
Capito, Portman and McCain all voted to gut Medicaid, didn’t they?
Yep. So much for those vaunted moderates Capito and Portman. Capito was flapping her gums about not voting in favor of a bill that didn’t improve on the ACA, and then she goes right ahead and votes in favor of TrumpCare. I guess Farenthold’s threat to shoot her got the message across.
McCain’s going to be dead in a year. That’ll be his just desserts.
What options are left now to vote on?
@littlegirlblue Could easily be 2 weeks. What a way to go!
Deader than the thing on donald’s head.
I think his medical condition has nothing to do with this and I wish him well in dealing with it. McCain’s a formula republican and politician. There’s no maverick there or individualist. He speaks to lots of audiences and some want to hear yes others no. So he’s a yes when he has to be and a no when that’s the better option. He’s always been that way but for some reason he’s never called down for it.
Remember…YOU said that. You had a heart cold enough to say that.
Sending appreciation for Ms. Ollstein and the TPM crew that remain focused on, and continue to report on developments, as we move deep in the evening/night.
If he hadn’t made this treacherous move and if he hadn’t foisted Sarah Plain on us which paved the way for PP, we’d be sad to see him go. Also, there seems to be a genetic predisposition to his form of cancer, so his kids better watch out.
You really have no idea how far off the mark you are here with Littlegirlblue. No clue.
Call me cold hearted. I call me realistic. He will die sooner than later because the cancer is aggressive, and this will be his legacy, that he failed Americans and his AZ constituency at the end…
Trump does a better job of taking his foot out of his mouth than you do.
His mom better watch out too!!
McCain voted FOR this? DaFUK? Wow, as cynical as I am, I just can’t keep up. What do you want to bet the Newshacks won’t even mention this.