Like it would make any difference. Old songbird McCain didn't have any real loyalty to his fellow naval officers, wife, POWs, or country, during or after the Vietnam war. He was bad news from day one.
Posted on 10/13/2017 7:28:19 AM PDT by Cheerio
It’s a specter that should stalk the nightmares of Republican leaders: a Senate chamber, packed on Christmas Eve, as lawmakers gather to decide the fate of a tax package that will shape the GOP’s political fortunes. The bill remains one vote shy, and then Sen. John McCain walks in, pauses before the desk, and delivers his second thumbs-down dagger of the year.
For that reason, the Arizona Republican, who is fighting a public battle with brain cancer, will be among his party’s most closely watched as the year winds down and the tax debate gears up. Yet over his decades in public life, McCain has traced a zigzagging line on the subject, leaving little clear indication of how he’ll approach a potentially decisive vote. A look at the senator's record on taxes shows that three things seem most important to him: public debate, some help for the middle class, and not exploding the deficit.
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Or he could die before then from brain cancer.
I know it sounds bad, but, didn’t they give this guy less than a year to live? Isn’t he dead yet? Will he not shuffle off his mortal coil and go to his eternal rewards?
If you notice comments by Cruz today....he thinks the tax bill will not hit the Senate until early January. He didn’t explain why but I would speculate that the last you will see of McCain will be mid-December, and he won’t return in January. Without McCain voting against it....it would then pass.
Pretty lousy way to exit out, that your associates have to delay a bill that you won’t pass.
President Trump is probably telling close advisers, “I wish I HAD called that SOB a hero.”
It’s not a question of might McCain give thumbs down. It’s a case of will do if he has to be wheeled into the senate on a gurney to cast his vote. He will go out as he has lived his entire misspent life...selfish and spiteful to the core, and meaner than the meanest pack of junkyard dogs.
Defund him, remove him from committees, and seat him in the corner away from clear thinking people. He is a lib wolf in sheep’s clothing who lies to the conservatives to gain power and then abuses it to his own party. He’s been doing it for years, and needs to be stopped for everyone’s better good. I am moderately surprised he hasn’t changed party yet. I say moderately because he doesn’t seem to want to tell the truth on anything. His position is no different.
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There is great value in then candidate Donald Trump speaking genuine truth to power. McCain is an awful person and has been his entire life. Calling him out is worth delay on some bills.
Of course he will-bitter sick man...
Soon to be “bitter” DEAD man...
Can somebody help me remember some constructive legislation from McCain? Surely not McCain-Feingold. Hasn’t McCain always been a wrecker, not a builder? What positive thing is he famous for? Hasn’t it always been his nature to be a turncoat and wrecker?
It would be fitting for his legacy to be a negative vote to wreck the US economy like this.
And what was said about Trump along the way? That hasn’t stopped Trump from doing what is right for America. McCain like most are bought and paid for and vote accordingly. If it wasn’t McCain voting down bills it would just be another senator.
Maybe so for political reasons but it would have been an outright lie. The only faction he has been a hero to is the Marxist Progressive left.
“If it wasn’t McCain voting down bills it would just be another senator.”
So true. He’s just the one that doesn’t have to worry about reelection.
McStain also was responsible for getting the amendment into Bush’es tax cut bill that expired it after 10 years.
The WaPo knows that this is the kind of spotlight the pathetic McCain loves. He relishes the “maverick” label and the WaPo is just feeding his ego hoping that is what he will do. And, as small and pathetic a person that McCain is, he is more than likely to cast such a vote.
You know McCain wants the glory of lying in state in the Capitol rotunda when he kicks the bucket. If the Turtle had any balls, he could call McCain into his office and lay it out. It is either either by congressional resolution or approval by congressional leadership, that there is the option of allowing him to lay in state in the Capitol rotunda. Tell him -vote yes, or that privilege will never be approved upon his death.
IIRC, McCain was responsible for the ‘sunset’ provision in the Bush tax cuts, which gave the ‘Rats a ‘class warfare’ talking point.
Like it would make any difference. Old songbird McCain didn't have any real loyalty to his fellow naval officers, wife, POWs, or country, during or after the Vietnam war. He was bad news from day one.
I love that idea and there are many more ways to turn the screws on McCain. McCain could easily be controlled. One can only conclude that McConnell doesn’t wish to.
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