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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a56570/mccain-healthcare-speech/But the ugliest thing to witness on a very ugly day in the United States Senate was what John McCain did to what was left of his legacy as a national figure. He flew all the way across the country, leaving his high-end government healthcare behind in Arizona, in order to cast the deciding vote to allow debate on whatever ghastly critter emerges from what has been an utterly undemocratic process. He flew all the way across the country in order to facilitate the process of denying to millions of Americans the kind of medical treatment that is keeping him alive, and to do so at the behest of a president* who mocked McCain's undeniable military heroism...
For longtime McCain watchers, and I count myself as one of them, this is something of a pattern. In 2000, George W. Bush's campaign slandered him and his young daughter, and radical fundamentalist Christians joined in so eagerly that McCain delivered the best speech of his career, calling those people "agents of intolerance." By 2006, he was on Meet The Press, which ultimately always was the constituency he cared most about, saying that the late Jerry Falwell was no longer an agent of intolerance. He was hugging Bush, and he was speaking at Liberty University. All of this seems to support the theory that the best way to win over John McCain is to treat him as badly as possible...
I wanted this to be different. In 2000, I thought McCain might be the person to lead his party back to marginal sanity at least. But he wanted to be president, so he became like all the rest of them. Yes, he scolded that person who said Barack Obama was a Muslim, but he chose as his running mate a nutty person who still may believe he is. Yes, he put his name on a campaign finance reform bill, but he also voted for every member of the Supreme Court who subsequently eviscerated that law, and others like it, and he's been absent from that fight ever since. There have been very few senators as loyal to the party line as John McCain. He has been a great lost opportunity to the country. Now, he will end his career as the face of whatever wretchedness is brought on the country by whatever the bill finally is.
malaise
(269,237 posts)M$Greedia is painting his return as something truly special.
McCain is a ReTHUG...PERIOD!
mcar
(42,426 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)McCain, when he saw his wife in a wheelchair, headed for the nearest bar to pick up some bimbo bitch. He is nothing more than a third rate man at best, a loser that would have been kicked out of Annapolis except for the fact that his old man was an admiral. Yes, I despise the way that he was treated as a prisoner, but that doesn't give him a pass to deny millions of his fellow citizens health care while he receives the best the care that OUR money can provide. Fuck that bastard and every fucking Republican Fascist bastard. Perhaps, as some have suggested it time for pitchforks and torches. No violence, just a uncompromising show of resolve.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)and now he comports himself like a submissive republican lemming. Sad.
I would never let a freaking Five-time republican Draft Dodger put me down for serving my country. Hell no.
dalton99a
(81,656 posts)Ninga
(8,281 posts)Where did you see that? I'd love it if he actually grew a pair and represented his state for once.
SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)The article was written before McCain's speech. He regained a bit of his soul with what he said. He basically endorsed the Democrats preference: start over, bi-partisan committees and full debate.
And he urged the Congress to not be subservient to the Executive branch.
pnwmom
(109,020 posts)Which would have ended everything.
SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)But relative to the rest of his party he rational and thoughtful. Being in your last term helps I guess.
And I was disgusted at all of the 'hope he dies soon' comments from supposed liberals.
Skittles
(153,253 posts)mcar
(42,426 posts)FCK em all.
oasis
(49,434 posts)he had better grab it.
gademocrat7
(10,679 posts)Party over country.
mcar
(42,426 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)If this shit happened during Obama's time, Greenwald and Assange would still be howling about it...
Strange how things change.
DemoTex
(25,406 posts)That's where über-racist Don-the-Con purloined his hair color!
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)Depressing as it is, and it is depressing.
ladym55
(2,577 posts)It's one of Charlie's better pieces (which is saying something because he does such consistently good work).
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I really can't believe McCain would stoop this low. You would think a dying man would have a change of heart and want to go out as a hero to the American people. But no, he would rather be seen as a hero to the greedy, miserable bastards in his party who couldn't give a flying fuck about him and will never give him a second thought once he is six-feet under.
calimary
(81,556 posts)MAN. TRULY the IGMFU party. "I Got Mine, F-U."
Shame on him. And his surgical scars haven't even healed over all the way.
SHAME on him.
mcar
(42,426 posts)Gave us LA Palin. Embraced both Bush II and Drumpf despite the despicable attacks on him and his family.
He is a RWNJ. That is it.
OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)mcar
(42,426 posts)I love it too.
SharonAnn
(13,781 posts)rainin
(3,011 posts)McCain hates Obama more than he hates Trump. That's what's behind this. IMO
extvbroadcaster
(343 posts)My thoughts exactly. You have to wonder about rich people in general. If you are pay check to pay check, with kids at home, and your boss humiliates you in front of people - well, you might make the decision to take it. For the wife and kids, and because you know it is the right thing. But McCain, the rest of them? They are rich. And old. They don't have to take any crap. Unless the most important thing is power, and being close to it. That is all I can figure. McCain is a real disappointment. He could have looked at his life, his age, his cancer, and his money and said screw it - I'm voting against this because it is the right thing to do and it would shove a hot poker up Trumps ass. But no. He went along with it, and voted yes. Now he will go back to his great healthcare and let the chips fall where they will. If millions lose their healthcare, so what? He was a good GOP soldier. What a way to end up.
adigal
(7,581 posts)At his age, with his health, the treatment is going to kick his butt.
But I am sure he will fly back to vote YES on Repeal only.
calimary
(81,556 posts)Indeed. "Now he will go back to his great healthcare and let the chips fall where they will." They're not only the "IGMFU" Party ("I Got Mine, F-U" , they're the "Sucks to Be YOU" Party.
Damn. Shame on him. Shame on them all.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Do you have a sewage treatment plant or landfill which can use the McCain name?
He just treated us like shit so those choices are fitting.
TomSlick
(11,120 posts)A legitimate military hero (despite what Trump said) - years of public service (often on the wrong side of issues but public service nonetheless) - a brave return to his job facing a terrible diagnosis. Now, he will be remembered for helping throw tens of thousands out of the health care system.
2naSalit
(86,880 posts)brain damage.
BigmanPigman
(51,648 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)He flew back from the grave, welcomed into the busom of his family. One of them. No fights, no bad feelings. Everything is rosy on Capital Hill, that shining city on the hill that Reagan spoke of. The rich, white, usually older, rich men in the Boy's Club. They relish in their happiness as they shake hands and look into each other's eyes, comforted by the knowledge that everything's all right. Everything's staying the same as it was decades ago.
DK504
(3,847 posts)As a student at Annapolis, he had healthcare, in the Navy he had healthcare. The only time in his LIFE he didn't not have outstanding healthcare was as a POW. Now as a man that has terminal cancer, he won't resign either, that will not overcome this terrible disease he will still deny other Americans any thing he has had handed to him his entire life.
He is not, nor has he ever been good enough for the station in his life. He and his pals in the Congress need their healthcare taken away and see how fast they pull together single payer healthcare.
Fuck all of them.
world wide wally
(21,758 posts)That is what he thinks of us too.
Quit kissing his ancient, wrinkled, pimply ass.
broadcaster90210
(333 posts)Brain cancer is too good for this POS.
adigal
(7,581 posts)From now on he will be John Beelzebub McCain to me.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Donald Trump a successful businessman.
ChazInAz
(2,575 posts)He never passes up an opportunity to fail to do the right thing.
No sympathy for you, Johnny-Mack.
deminks
(11,018 posts)niyad
(113,701 posts)niyad
(113,701 posts)niyad
(113,701 posts)him is now gone. may he, and all of them, receive everything they deserve.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)This has been noticed across the country.
world wide wally
(21,758 posts)His image is as phony as that orange anus mouth character.