Not a single bill produced during the time they began healthcare proceedings has any bill done a single thing that was of any advantage to the middle and working class. And that isn't hyperbole, that is just stone-cold fact.
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Senate healthcare repeal bill fails - Collins, Murkowski, and McCain voted no
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Not a single bill produced during the time they began healthcare proceedings has any bill done a single thing that was of any advantage to the middle and working class. And that isn't hyperbole, that is just stone-cold fact.
between voting to proceed days ago and his "watch the show" comment tonight it's pretty obvious mccain just did this shit so he could be the Maverick Hero and doesn't actually care about how this all ends. it's theatre and he wants to be the tragic hero one last time before he goes
shawnbuddy
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I apologize for the mean things I've said about McCain.
Even if it was because of the enormous backlash, it's still a big deal when most of the Republican senators ignored said backlash.
I'm just happy that this insanity did not pass.
Cesare Borgia
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All McConnell had to do is hold regular order, respect the process, hold committees etc and McCain would have voted yes on a bill like this. McConnel fucked this up and kept fucking it up. Reckless, disrespectful etc.
jack_package_200
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Off to go cry in the arms of his kind and complain about european healthcare.
darkwing-buck
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is their a video of McConnell's reaction to the bill getting repealed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc8qK7SaxyM
nvm lol*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc8qK7SaxyM
nvm lol*
Chained Prometheus
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I hope to God this leads to McConnell resigning.
Harrison Bergeron
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I wonder what the incoming tweet storm is going to be like? And then whatever bombshell hits at 6pm. The cycle continues.
Vincent Alexander
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McCain, you son of a bitch. Just when I was completely done with you, you pull me back in.
Hitlersaurus Christ
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Oh don't get me wrong, it is absolutely a big deal. But never forgive and forget the other times.
I mean the way he flip flops is hilarious. In this case it was good.
She got no love in the thread title, though.
He's gonna go right back to fucking us after this, but I'm still impressed.
Angelus Errare
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Sadly folks gonna prop him up as a savior simply for being slightly less evil than usual.
McCain's voting record is trash and he's trash for it. One obvious "right thing" vote doesn't absolve him of his political lifetime of being a pos. Like he's going to go right back to getting in line with Republicans on everything like he ALWAYS fucking does.
It's so damn easy being a Republican politician in this country. I swear.
Trump should take note, if he wants to be worshipped just do one slightly less evil thing and watch everyone sing your praises and ignore your record of fuckery.
AstroNut325
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FFS people. We don't even know under what thought process McCain voted no. And yet here we are declaring him a Hero??? The Man has literally fallen in-line with the GOP agenda for everything else.
Unknown Soldier
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So are the people who wished death on McCain going to recant now?
IrishNinja
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agreed, and id never defend that shitty hypocritical koopa troopa but i kept wondering if the pace was pressure form short attention span trump
also strongly agreed
ExplodingKetchup
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This is wild
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Epsilon-delta
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That one comment of "so much winning" in the McCain thread on t_d reached into the negative and then got promptly deleted lol.
GoldenEye 007
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I'm fully ready to apologize and retract some of the bad things I have said about him due to this vote. But you have something wrong with you if you deny he always falls in line. 90% with Trump.
I bet you thought that post was so smart.
No, he absolutely deserves that for this. No, we shouldn't forget everything else in the past, but the fact is that McCain killed this vote. Without him, this would have passed.
The next big issue is going to be the national budget and tax reform, and McCain's importance is going to bed diminished. And hell, dude could be dead by then, or at least incapacitated. This will, most likely, be his last major vote for legislation unless they try all of this again and fly him out from his deathbed again and he votes yes. We'll see when we get there.
Dubbedinenglish
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Look it doesn't make McCain some savior or erase his entire voting history, but tonight he was the ally we needed.
Widdle Puppy
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Is there video of turtle shitting the bed?
Inyourprime
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For now... I still will remain skeptical of our dear "maverick".
Arrogant Bastard
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People wished him death on here?
This doesn't change his long career of being a shit heel. It offers a degree of forgiveness of past deeds but it doesn't erase a long long record as a politician.
Yep.
AstroNut325
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Whoa... Nostalgia overload!
Harrison Bergeron
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The President is going to become lame duck before then end of his first year in office, with his own party in the Legislative Branch.
This is more like Vader dumping Palpatine down the Death Star II shaft- this does not at all redeem all the terrible stuff he supported, but in this critical moment he helped us out. I'm grateful for the outcome, I'm not declaring anyone redeemed or a hero.
And he was absolutely correct to not believe Ryan.
Phrozenflame500
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49-51, seems like McCain made the right choice when it actually mattered.
Part of me wonders if more Reps wanted to vote no but asked McCain to do it cause let's face it he's not up for reelection.
Part of me wonders if more Reps wanted to vote no but asked McCain to do it cause let's face it he's not up for reelection.
Randolph Freelander
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Going to have to increment the tally for the number of times McCain has come through.
We're now up to....
1.
We're now up to....
1.
-Plasma Reus-
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McCain did the right thing in the end.
darkwing-buck
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Forgive me for my ignorance in these things but what happens now?
Dems start cooking up a plan?
Dems start cooking up a plan?
Delete this.
AstroNut325
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I wouldn't even count this as "he helped us out." He could just as likely voted no because of some procedural crap or the bill wasn't conservative enough.
I don't wish death on the man (or anyone), and after all the grandstanding he came out on the favorable side for me, but him not being there and his nay vote are functionally the same in my eyes.
He's still as much a danger to many Americans as his Republican colleagues are.
And, I mean, let's be real: many Senate Republicans were hoping for that exact scenario. They just thought they could be spared the blame if they laid it at the House's feet.
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