Posted on 12/17/2017 12:40:31 PM PST by springwater13
epublican Sen. John McCain is returning to Arizona after spending several days in a Maryland hospital recovering from side effects from chemotherapy treatment for brain cancer, CBS News has learned.
McCain left Washington Sunday and is heading back to his home state to spend the holidays with his family. He will not be on hand for the final vote on the GOP tax passage expected for early this week. It is unclear when McCain might return to Washington.
Despite a razor-thin margin needed to pass the measure, McCain's presence will not likely be the determining factor in the vote. Two critical senators -- Bob Corker of Tennessee and Marco Rubio of Florida -- announced their support for the bill last week after initially saying they would oppose earlier versions.
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Hope a suitable candidate is available. Don’t know Arizona at all. Anyone have a short list?
Worthless POS
I agree pretty pathetic.
Get well, John. ISIS needs you.
Resign now ... then die quickly, Traitor McCain.
Good grief, not this again. Read the report on the fire and get back to us.
Classic John McCain move. Kick him out.
Depends on one's perspective. I am greatly encouraged by this news.
Which ones? I know two of them personally and have read just about every bio that has been printed that I’m aware of. I know about the reading, but I also know better men than McCain who broke, so if that’s all I don’t necessarily hold that against him. That said, he has never had a fighter pilot’s killer instinct and the past few years I question his sanity.
That's the name of a grunge album.
The proper phrase is, 'never mind.'
Nice... Thumbs up.
No. Statistically, at his age, he has less than a year left. Add to that, radiation to the brain is not good.
Of course there are always outliers.
Agreed. If we want to be better then we should BE BETTER.
McCain isn’t going to retire because he is getting world-class health care as a Senator.
McCain retires and all of that goes away.
The question in my mind is how sick is McCain? Can he still function as a Senator and vote on bills? Or is he really on deaths door-step.
This is a case where time will really tell. If McCain is dead in within the next couple of months then we know that he really wasn’t in any shape to vote on the tax bill. If McCain lingers on for a couple of more years, then we know he did this just to spite Trump.
Jones’s election wont be certified until sometime after 26 December and he can’t be sworn in until then.
Only eunuchs or transgenders need apply
I always considered McStain as an “enemy combatant”.
The dark Grim Reaper is on the way and calling his name.
Did you catch this awhile back...
Alzheimer’s prescriptions. I vote McCain and Pelosi.
Unfortunately, you are right on.
McCain once spoke to my Battalion upon return from one of our deployments to Iraq, and threatened to personally intervene if any of us were to cause trouble regarding gays and lesbians being openly allowed into the military. He was really hung up on fairness to gays and zero tolerance for not going along. He spoke of the need to integrate them all the way to the top.
He praised Obama for his leadership and direction over the DoD.
You could have heard a pin drop. It was certainly no pep-rally.
We were caught off guard. Everyone was happy when he left. The only applause was mechanical as he left, so as not to bring down some unknown/unnecessary wrath.
He would know about prostitutes.
After his return from Vietnam, he spent time with many women, eventually divorcing his wife who loved him and sacrificed much for him.
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