Dying man makes peace with his god.
Senate 'skinny repeal' of Obamacare falls apart on Senate floor after McCain defects
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Dying man makes peace with his god.
49 Republican Senators voted for a health care bill they said would be a disaster and hoped The House would reject.Bobby Jindal couldn't have been more correct when he called Republicans the party of stupid.
No disrespect, Captain, but we knew Donald had the self restraint of a 14 year old before he was elected. I think we were all willing to tolerate that if it came with some major changes. Of course, it doesn't and that's the problem.
The machine seems to be too big to disassemble.
No disagreement with anything here. But people inside the party of stupid, at least, realizes it is stupid. Democrats haven't even gotten that far yet.
I agree with tsing and captain.
I think the problem here is that that trump tried to work with the establishment in the first place.
Trump should have created a plan and been offering that whole time.
that he thought he could work with these establishment traitors was naive stupid and a waste fo political capital. Plus he betrayed the base that voted for him.
Ryan and McConnell were only going to create bad health care.
I think the problem here is that that trump tried to work with the establishment in the first place.
Trump should have created a plan and been offering that whole time.
that he thought he could work with these establishment traitors was naive stupid and a waste fo political capital. Plus he betrayed the base that voted for him.
Ryan and McConnell were only going to create bad health care.
This was McCains political ad when he was running.
I think he just decided to kill his political career as he's going to die soon anyway and this was a big F* you to Trump just because.
I think he just decided to kill his political career as he's going to die soon anyway and this was a big F* you to Trump just because.
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Roberts: McCain sinks skinny repeal. Way to represent, senator
Laurie Roberts: Arizona's senior senator delivered on his words earlier this week, refusing to vote for a healthcare bill that even his colleagues viewed as a disaster.
Way to represent, Sen. John McCain.
On Tuesday, Arizona’s senior senator delivered an inspired, impassioned and desperately needed call for this nation’s leaders to work together to develop with a health-care plan that works for the American public.
“I hope we can again rely on humility, on our need to cooperate, on our dependence on each other to learn how to trust each other again and by so doing better serve the people who elected us,” he said.
McCain listened to Arizonans
Late Thursday, McCain delivered on those words, voting to oppose a “skinny repeal” of Obamacare. One that would have resulted in 15 million people becoming uninsured by 2018. One that would have pushed premiums up by 20 percent next year.
One that had been labeled a disaster by the very senators who supported it. Yet they voted for it anyway.
Credit to McCain who listened to the people of Arizona and had the tenacity to demand better that that for which his Republican colleagues were willing to settle. According to a poll taken on Wednesday, just 6 percent of Arizona's voters supported this bill.
As for Sen. Jeff Flake, well …
So what now?
Listen, again, to McCain’s words on Tuesday.
“Why don’t we try the old way of legislating in the Senate, the way our rules and customs encourage us to act. If this process ends in failure, which seem likely, then let’s return to regular order.
“Let the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee … hold hearings, try to report a bill out of committee with contributions from both sides. Then bring it to the floor for amendment and debate, and see if we can pass something that will be imperfect, full of compromises, and not very pleasing to implacable partisans on either side, but that might provide workable solutions to problems Americans are struggling with today.”
Sen. John McCain literally put his life on the line this week to fly to Washington, to make a point, to take stand.
To send a message that now is the time for our leaders to ignore “the implacable partisans on either side” and for once to do what is best for the American public.
Skinny repeal lost by a skinny margin of one vote. Sen. John McCain's vote.
Earlier this week, I posed the question: is McCain's finest moment yet to come?
Tonight, we got the answer.
Roberts: McCain sinks skinny repeal. Way to represent, senator
Laurie Roberts: Arizona's senior senator delivered on his words earlier this week, refusing to vote for a healthcare bill that even his colleagues viewed as a disaster.
Way to represent, Sen. John McCain.
On Tuesday, Arizona’s senior senator delivered an inspired, impassioned and desperately needed call for this nation’s leaders to work together to develop with a health-care plan that works for the American public.
“I hope we can again rely on humility, on our need to cooperate, on our dependence on each other to learn how to trust each other again and by so doing better serve the people who elected us,” he said.
McCain listened to Arizonans
Late Thursday, McCain delivered on those words, voting to oppose a “skinny repeal” of Obamacare. One that would have resulted in 15 million people becoming uninsured by 2018. One that would have pushed premiums up by 20 percent next year.
One that had been labeled a disaster by the very senators who supported it. Yet they voted for it anyway.
Credit to McCain who listened to the people of Arizona and had the tenacity to demand better that that for which his Republican colleagues were willing to settle. According to a poll taken on Wednesday, just 6 percent of Arizona's voters supported this bill.
As for Sen. Jeff Flake, well …
So what now?
Listen, again, to McCain’s words on Tuesday.
“Why don’t we try the old way of legislating in the Senate, the way our rules and customs encourage us to act. If this process ends in failure, which seem likely, then let’s return to regular order.
“Let the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee … hold hearings, try to report a bill out of committee with contributions from both sides. Then bring it to the floor for amendment and debate, and see if we can pass something that will be imperfect, full of compromises, and not very pleasing to implacable partisans on either side, but that might provide workable solutions to problems Americans are struggling with today.”
Sen. John McCain literally put his life on the line this week to fly to Washington, to make a point, to take stand.
To send a message that now is the time for our leaders to ignore “the implacable partisans on either side” and for once to do what is best for the American public.
Skinny repeal lost by a skinny margin of one vote. Sen. John McCain's vote.
Earlier this week, I posed the question: is McCain's finest moment yet to come?
Tonight, we got the answer.