If Arizona Senator John McCain were a Hollywood actor, he’d always be type cast as a disruptive maverick, never the leading man or a character actor.
Early this morning, as the U.S. Senate tried one more time to pass legislation to change Obamacare, he played true to form by joining two other Republican senators in casting the deciding vote to kill the GOP plan for a “skinny repeal” of Obamacare.
The 51-49 vote to defeat the amendment after 1:30 a.m. dashed Republican hopes of a tie vote that would enable Vice President Mike Pence to cast a tiebreaker and pass the legislation. An audible gasp went through the chamber when McCain voted.
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine had already signaled their intentions to break ranks and vote with the Democrats. It was McCain’s vote that provided the killing blow.
Find out on the next page what McCain’s vote means for future attempts to change or repeal Obamacare and how President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are reacting to the defeat of the bill.
Congress must really love Obamacare and think it’s the best thing since indoor plumbing because they vote down every effort to repeal it but can’t come up with anything on their own.
Traitor
ASSOLE MCCAIN
Maverick a term invented by the media to cover his many crimes, the songbird of Hanoi needs to be recognized for the self serving traitor that he is.
He probably would have been cast in Slingblade!
McCain is not a Maverick. He is a deterrment to the United States of America. He thinks being a politician is like being a Burger King- he can have it his way. Having been a prisioner at the Hanoi Hilton does not indicate he is a martyr and saint to America. I would challenge his frame of mind and his ability to make a sound decision. He will go down in history not as an asset to the American People, but a traitor to his party.
BRAIN CANCER.
Pray cancer takes him soon
Put McCain on Obamacare for his cancer treatment.
I think you better return to the hospital, I think they removed your brain, instead of the tumor!