John MaverickMcCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former
foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an
ordinary citizenhe greased the infamous
hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscowdossier in an attempt to smear President Trump...
returned to the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday afternoon to cast a critical vote in favor of health care legislation less than a week after undergoing surgery and revealing he has brain cancer.
And then, in typical McCain fashion, he took to the floor and blasted both the Senate's draft health care bill and the process that produced it.
McCain’s vote was pivotal as Republicans, who hold a 52-seat majority, scrambled to round up 50 votes on a motion to advance legislation to repeal Obamacare
... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read...
McCain did not announce in advance whether he would support Tuesday’s "motion to proceed," but he marched onto the floor to a standing ovation from his colleagues and voted "aye." Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa
Daddy, can I be a senator?Murkowski
... representing K Street ...
of Alaska voted no, requiring Vice President Pence to cast the tie-breaking vote in favor.
But that was only a vote to begin debate. "I will not vote for this bill as it is today," McCain said, and if it fails "as seems likely," the Senate should go back to the drawing board, with hearings, markups and consultation with Democrats -- all things that have thus far been lacking.
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...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
, who had pushed his fellow Republicans hard in recent days to live up to the party's campaign promises to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. Minutes after the vote, Trump called it "a big step."
But the narrow victory on a simple procedural matter raised questions about whether Republicans can muster the votes necessary to pass any of various approaches to repeal. Moderates are worried repeal will cost low-income Americans their insurance and conservatives are angry the proposed bills do not go far enough to gut Obamacare.