It was close — Pence had to break the tie — but the Senate voted to push on with Trumpcare. There were only two nay votes from the Republicans, and none of them were McCain.
His legacy is settled. Tag him with an “H” word — not Hero, but Hack.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
If anyone feels like knowing who voted what, link.
McCain. What a little shit.
Would just like to fill out the scene a bit:
John McCain, Maverick and American hero, crawled out of his hospital bed to deny the very medical care he was receiving to around 15 million Americans. By the time he arrived, all but two Republican Senators had voted. Ron Johnson cast his as McCain entered to a standing ovation, when he proudly voted yes.
I don’t even know what to say. The bill isn’t done, a lot of hurdles, but never doubt that Republicans will fall in line, no matter how awful the subject.
Cross posted from the Political Madness All the Time thread.
With the wound on his head still clearly visible, John McCain returned to the Senate today. Here are comments regarding his speech from Matt Shuham:
Link
McCain sounded good, but he voted incorrectly. (As SC later pointed out, McCain said one thing and then did another. “McCain’s vote and his grandstanding were completely at odds, and his vote means weeks or months of terror for people who don’t know whether they or their families will continue to have health care, and possibly far worse. Given the context, his star turn today looks selfish, callous, and even cruel.”)
Read more: https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/05/05/discuss-political-madness-all-the-time-2/#ixzz4nsWCm7pG”
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I think I’ll stick to F words if it’s all the same to you.
Pathologic Hypocrisy, as distinguished from Casual Hypocrisy
“McCain said one thing and then did another.”
I wish he hadn’t done this.
It’s not like McCain needs health care or anything. Right?
McCain:
On the contrary, I think Chris Murphy and the others who’ve called for bipartisan solutions and who went outside and talked to the people gathered (Warren had some jerk who said he worked at the White House shouting “Pocahontas” at her) feel plenty proud, as they should. Don’t project your own and your party’s political and moral bankruptcy onto them. It’s you who should be ashamed.
McCain’s always been a mostly party-line Republican Senator. The only deviation from the party-line for him was on campaign finance reform (in part because he got zinged by the Charles Keating scandal) and some early 2000s stuff out of resentment for Bush Jr.
But a whole generation of centrist Washington media establishment types love him because he would come on their shows regularly, chat it up, and generally give them the whole I’m Not Like Those Other Republicans (which is what they desperately want – they need Republican politicians to wink in their direction when talking conservative stuff).
Proud.
“Senator crawls out of hospital bed to deny healthcare that just saved his life to millions of Americans.”
I hope the millions of Americans pay him in kind.
McCain lies like a dog in his ‘courageous’ speech following the vote to proceed to debate.
The Obama administration and congressional Democrats shouldn’t have forced through Congress without any opposition support a social and economic change as massive as Obamacare. And we shouldn’t do the same with ours. — Full text of McCain’s speech
That is not how I remember things going down.
He’s a hack, with a capital ‘H’ stitched to his suit.
@10 SC
Everyone should be talking about this! But I hadn’t heard a single word about it. Not even from members of her own party, who were happy to send good will to that desiccated evil bastard whose last act on Earth was to drag thousands of innocents into the grave with him.
He was adamantly against torture till he ran for president.
being a team player is all well and good but he is just taking it in the shorts again for a bunch who have never really been in his side and certainly not on the side of the majority of the people.
uncle frogy
I’m gonna say it: McCain is a little shit.
We’re always told to venerate him as an American hero because of his soldiering service but you know what? That’s a load of crap.
As a Senator all that he’s ever done is run a propaganda campaign of himself as a “maverick” and playing up his service to dodge accountability as he lazily votes however the boots he licks tell him to. Which means that all he’s ever done as a an elected representative is be another god damn Republican traitor to his country.
And the people who get their rocks in a twist over such “disrespect to a soldier” and how dare I criticized someone who got captured and tortured? They’e the one who strip VA benefits – the ones that would have kept a soldier who didn’t become a rich boot-licking Senator alive. They’re the ones who got McCain tortured in capitalist wars, who would have let McCain die in the street as a “welfare moocher” if he didn’t become their bootlicker. The people who will condemn me for this are the ones who don’t actually give a fuck about the troops, they just hold the soldiers in front of them as political human shields, and those people can suck my fat hairy cock.
Trump likes soldiers that don’t get captured, and ya’ll are ok with that. So I like soldiers that don’t come home and throw their service in the dirt to fuck up the country they got shot to defend.
Disappointing end to McCain’s life. So much potential for heroism and bravery that he squandered to be his masters’ little shit.
The way to treat your illness, John McCain,
Is simple: we should amputate your brain.
No brain, no pain, dear John McCain.
He’s going down fighting.
Against the citizens of America.
McCain as hero? I think not, and offer two words/names in rebuttal: Sarah Palin. Nothing at all heroic or even patriotic in his choice of running mate. He didn’t give a fuck about the governance of or country then and, by voting to proceed to an unseen bill on Tuesday, it’s clear that he doesn’t give a fuck now, either.
http://www.gq.com/story/john-mccain-is-the-perfect-american-lie
I guess if there is any upside to this, it’s that more people are seeing the actual score here.
This entire thread seems to be based on an incorrect understanding. McCain’s vote was to bring the Republican health care bill to the floor of the Senate for debate. It was not a vote to pass the bill.
Health Care Vote: Senate Rejects Repeal Without Replace
McCain was one of those voting against “Repeal without Replace”
They don’t mention how McCain voted on that, but it failed with only 43 ‘yes’ votes, whereas RwR had 45 ‘yes’ votes.
@21: That was my understanding, yeah. But in what way does voting to debate the hidden health care bill not count as trying to push on with Trumpcare, permitting all the problems he ostensibly spoke against, and supporting the removal of health care from millions of people? After all, it’s well understood you’re only supposed to call to debate things you think are worthy of consideration — if you were supposed to debate everything no matter how horrible, there wouldn’t be a vote.
In the depth of night, an hour before Trumprise, McCain turned around and saved Obamacare. “Such is life in Washington today, where up is down, black is white, losing is winning, and covfefe is covfefe.”