John had GBM stag 4. The symptoms can affect all functions of the brain. John could not be held responsible for anything he said or did. This a basic understanding that everyone understands. You might want to take a long look in the mirror and ask if dancing on patriots grave is smart.
More horseschidt.
If McCain was not of the mental capacity you say, then he should have resigned his position in the senate. His family and close advisors should have urged him to do so.
I'm so glad McCain is your hero. I reckon one person's "hero" is another's traitor.
Please do tell us what Romney's excuse is? Is he stage 4 brain cancer as well?
I'm not dancing on his grave. I'm just calling him for what I know him to be. A traitor. Of the first order.
Your low behavior is inexcusable. You will remember your words every time you get a funeral notice. Enjoy your pathic life.
Mccain sure aint the hero, Cindy is just a drug addict
This sums up McCain playing both sides during his career. His final spite filled act of power....
He shoulda have resigned his seat long before this. But his need to have the absolute final say so when circumstances lined up preplanned by him out of a need for power. Fugged us all as taxpayers by continuing to pay for the Liberal Socialist Democrats free schit for life health care programs AKA: Obama Fugging Care........
It was the most dramatic night in the United States Senate in recent history. Just ask the senators who witnessed it.
A seven-year quest to undo the Affordable Care Act collapsed — at least for now — as Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) kept his colleagues and the press corps in suspense over a little more than two hours late Thursday into early Friday.
Not since September 2008, when the House of Representatives rejected the Troubled Asset Relief Program — causing the Dow Jones industrial average to plunge nearly 800 points in a single afternoon — had such an unexpected vote caused such a striking twist.
The bold move by the nation’s most famous senator stunned his colleagues and possibly put the Senate on the verge of protracted bipartisan talks that McCain is unlikely to witness as he begins treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer.
“I’ve stated time and time again that one of the major failures of Obamacare was that it was rammed through Congress by Democrats on a strict party-line basis without a single Republican vote,” he said in a statement explaining his vote. “We should not make the mistakes of the past.”
How Senate Republicans' 'skinny repeal' bill failed
The Senate GOP health care bill failed after three Republicans voted against it (Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
Rumors swirled late Thursday that the Arizona Republican, who had captured the nation’s sympathy this week after delaying his cancer treatment in order to return to Washington, might vote against the GOP’s “skinny repeal” plan — a watered-down version of earlier Republican proposals to repeal the 2010 health-care law.
McCain warned at a hastily arranged news conference Thursday afternoon that he was leaning against supporting the legislation unless House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) assured GOP senators that the House would not move to quickly approve the bill in its current form. McCain and Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) wanted Ryan to launch broad House-Senate negotiations for a wider rollback of the law. Two hours later, Ryan issued a statement signaling he would launch negotiations, and Graham and Johnson announced their support.
But not McCain.
Reporters spotted him around 11 p.m.
“Have you decided how you’ll vote?” they asked.
“Yes,” McCain replied.
“How?”
“Wait for the show,” he said.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) speaks to journalists during an all-night session to consider the Republican health-care bill on Capitol Hill on July 27. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
McCain headed for the stage — the Senate floor — around midnight, emerging from his office in the Russell Senate Office Building for the subway ride to the U.S. Capitol.
When he arrived, he held a brief conversation with Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer ( D-N.Y.), an exchange that left the New Yorker smiling.
“I knew it when he walked on the floor,” Schumer later recounted, explaining that McCain had already called to share his plans.
But few, if any, of his Republican colleagues realized what was about to transpire.
Two votes were called just after midnight. The first was on a Democratic proposal to refer the “skinny repeal” bill back to a committee. The second vote was to pass “skinny repeal,” which would have repealed the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate and rolled back a tax on medical devices.
“Let’s vote against skinny repeal,” Schumer told his colleagues before the votes as he once again derided the rushed nature of the health-care debate.
McCain stood on the Republican side of the room nodding in agreement.
With Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) already planning to vote against the plan, Republicans could not afford to lose McCain. Vice President Pence was already at the Capitol prepared to break a tie. Instead, he launched a last-ditch effort to win McCain’s support.
As the first vote began, McCain took his seat next to Graham, his closest friend in the Senate. The South Carolinian mostly nodded as McCain gesticulated, and signaled — through his body language — that he was likely to vote no. When Murkowski walked over to join the conversation, McCain winked and gave her a thumbs down — signaling his intentions.
McCain winks, gives thumbs-down to Murkowski
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) gave Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Ala.) a wink and a thumbs-down after she voted no on the "skinny repeal" bill early on July 28. (The Washington Post)
Collins joined the group as another clutch of Republican senators formed in the well of the Senate Chamber. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who operates in McCain’s long shadow, stood next to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), who counts GOP votes, and Pence. Eventually, Flake was dispatched to talk to McCain.
He obliged, walked over to McCain and asked Graham to move over one seat. But McCain did not acknowledge Flake, focusing instead on Murkowski and Collins.
That left Flake, one of the most polite members of the Senate, leaning into the conversation uncomfortably with a pained look on his face, as if he had to tell his father that he had run over the family dog with his car.
Seeing that Flake was not making progress, Pence walked over at 12:44 a.m. McCain smiled, pointed at Collins and Murkowski, said something about “marching orders,” and stood up.
“Mr. Vice President,” he said, greeting Pence. For the next 21 minutes, the vice president cajoled McCain, Collins and Murkowski. Twice during the conversation, a Pence aide came to whisper in the vice president’s ear — other reporters learned it was the White House calling. Pence finally left to take a call, but later returned to speak with McCain.
By then, other senators around the room realized what was happening.
“You could see the body language in the entire chamber change in two hours,” Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) recalled. “One side was kind of ebullient, moving around and talking and the other side was subdued, and all of a sudden it began to change. There was an instinctive reaction that maybe this thing wasn’t going to pass. Nobody knew for sure.”
“It was pretty somber,” added Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.).
At 1:10 a.m., McCain crossed the Senate Chamber to talk to Schumer, Klobuchar and other Democrats, including Sens. Richard J. Durbin (Ill.), Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.). As he approached, McCain told them he worried that reporters watching from the gallery above could read his lips.
Walking back to the Republican side of the room, McCain was stopped by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) who also offered a hug.
Hatch hugs McCain before 'skinny repeal' vote
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) embraced Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on the Senate floor on July 28, before McCain voted "no" on the Republicans' "skinny repeal" bill. (The Washington Post)
“I love John McCain. He’s one of the great heroes of this country,” Hatch explained later. “Whether we agree or not, I still love the guy.”
The vote on “skinny repeal” began at 1:24 a.m., but McCain was out in the lobby once again conferring with Pence. In his absence, Collins and Murkowski cast their “no” votes along with the 48 members of the Democratic caucus.
McCain returned at 1:29 a.m. without Pence, approached the Senate clerk and gave a thumbs down — the third “no” vote.
Several people gasped. Others applauded. Reporters dashed out to report the news.
McCain returned to his seat, walking past Cornyn and Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who stood grim-faced and despondent. Cassidy rubbed his face several times with his hands. Thune’s face contorted. The color in Cornyn’s face seemed to drain.
“Certainly Senator McCain knows how to improve the drama,” Cassidy recalled later.
The vote concluded, and the results were announced — the bill was voted down, 51 to 49. Just days before, McCain had fired a warning shot with a lengthy floor speech that criticized the rushed, secretive process that led to “skinny repeal.” Early Friday morning, McCain, Collins and Murkowski delivered the fatal blow.
McConnell, humiliated by the results, stood to address his colleagues. The color of his face now matched the pink in his necktie.
“This is clearly a disappointing moment,” he said.
Using your logic you would tell Cindy ‘believe my my politics and your grief will be relieved. Have you found a new low yet? I don’t think so. Pathetic.
What happened to him over 50 years ago is no reason to applaud his “me, me” attitude during his time in the Senate. Few remember he dumped his wife (badly injured in a car accident) and three kids for the piece of fluff (with money) he chased. His first wife stood by him the entire time he was in Hanoi. That’s what pisses me off. He thought the dims loved him until he was no longer needed as their pawn. His legacy is one of total failure as a public servant.
Using your logic you would tell Cindy ‘believe my my politics and your grief will be relieved. Have you found a new low yet? I don’t think so. Pathetic.
You have me confused with someone that cares.
Everybody loses family. Everyone dies. It's part of life.
But living a large portion of your life as a traitor, or supporting a traitor, invokes no sympathy in me.
What happened to him over 50 years ago is no reason to applaud his “me, me” attitude during his time in the Senate. Few remember he dumped his wife (badly injured in a car accident) and three kids for the piece of fluff (with money) he chased. His first wife stood by him the entire time he was in Hanoi. That’s what pisses me off. He thought the dims loved him until he was no longer needed as their pawn. His legacy is one of total failure as a public servant.
Damn straight JB, you nailed it.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
What happened to him over 50 years ago is no reason to applaud his “me, me” attitude during his time in the Senate. Few remember he dumped his wife (badly injured in a car accident) and three kids for the piece of fluff (with money) he chased. His first wife stood by him the entire time he was in Hanoi. That’s what pisses me off. He thought the dims loved him until he was no longer needed as their pawn. His legacy is one of total failure as a public servant.
Yep Mccain was always an entitled POS. I forgot how he treated his first wife. He dumped his first wife and family , who stood by him while he was in Vietnam, to marry Cindy because she came from a lot of money and her family could launch his political career. And let's not forgot his vote that destroyed the healthcare system for Americans. And he was a war mongering POS. Really not one good word to say about him or his political career.
Using your logic you would tell Cindy ‘believe my my politics and your grief will be relieved. Have you found a new low yet? I don’t think so. Pathetic.
Cindy should stick to her pill popping. She never worked one day in her life coming from a monied family. She was screwing Johnnie when he was married with a famiiy. And was heavily involved in the Savings and Loan scandal that cost tax payers milliions of dollars. She and John should have been sent to prison for that. .
Yep, She's a good one to lecture others on their behavior.
People need to know that John McCain had terminal brain cancer. He needs to be remembered for good he did in life. The family gets a pass also. Brain cancer devastated the entire family.
That bastard fought to keep our POW's left behind in Vietnam unaccounted for and left to DIE there. F U C K John McCain, I hope he's living it up in the Lava Lounge
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."-- Thomas Jefferson
I wouldn't wish anyone to spend their final days locked in bitterness, but that's exactly what McCain chose.
John was probably blind, paralyzed and unable to speak. GBM has no political boundaries.
Yet with his dying words he dis-invited our president to his own requested State Funeral, paid for by taxpayers, that are usually reserved for dead presidents.
I wouldn't wish anyone to spend their final days locked in bitterness, but that's exactly what McCain chose.
John was probably blind, paralyzed and unable to speak. GBM has no political boundaries.
Yet with his dying words he dis-invited our president to his own requested State Funeral, paid for by taxpayers, that are usually reserved for dead presidents.
His betters indulged him.
You would deny a mans last wish? New low, congratulations.
What happened to him over 50 years ago is no reason to applaud his “me, me” attitude during his time in the Senate. Few remember he dumped his wife (badly injured in a car accident) and three kids for the piece of fluff (with money) he chased. His first wife stood by him the entire time he was in Hanoi. That’s what pisses me off. He thought the dims loved him until he was no longer needed as their pawn. His legacy is one of total failure as a public servant.
Damn straight JB, you nailed it.
The Devil devours his own when his “useful idiots” are no longer useful.
I wouldn't wish anyone to spend their final days locked in bitterness, but that's exactly what McCain chose.
John was probably blind, paralyzed and unable to speak. GBM has no political boundaries.
Yet with his dying words he dis-invited our president to his own requested State Funeral, paid for by taxpayers, that are usually reserved for dead presidents.
His betters indulged him.
You would deny a mans last wish? New low, congratulations.
Snowflake do you need some sensitivity training? Mcstain was a traitorous piece of crap and got what he deserved. It’s called karma!
Using your logic you would tell Cindy ‘believe my my politics and your grief will be relieved. Have you found a new low yet? I don’t think so. Pathetic.
Using your logic we should forgive Hitler for the NAZI/WWII , death camps thing because he was a POW in WWI. Hitler is probably playing checkers now with Mcstain
Wait, did he have 'GBM' when he left his first wife[mangled & laying in a hospital bed], a wife which stuck by him while he was a war prisoner? What he did was atrocious, unforgivable and adds context to his later years.
