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McCain May Have Killed Republicans' Last Chance To Repeal Obamacare
2017-09-22
[Daily Caller] Sen. John McCain of Arizona announced Friday afternoon that he will vote against his Republican colleagues’ last-ditch effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.

"I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal. I believe we could do better working together, Republicans and Democrats, and have not yet really tried," he said in a statement Friday.

Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, along with Sens. Dean Heller of Nevada and Ron Johnson Wisconsin, put forth a bill that would repeal major portions of Obamacare and replace the system’s funding mechanism with block grants in an attempt, according to the senators, to promote state innovation in the implementation of health care.

McCain was, along with Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky, serving as one the key holdouts.

Republicans need 50 "yes" votes to pass the bill under the Senate’s budget reconciliation, and they currently have roughly 48 senators behind the bill, according to Cassidy.
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  He was always the Manchurian Candidate.

Sorry to other ex-POWs.

Posted by: 3dc   2017-09-22 23:40  

#8  The worst Democrat is often a Tame Republican.
Posted by: Iblis   2017-09-22 17:20  

#7  Yes, let us proceed in a spirit of love and bipartisanship. *BLEEP*. Perhaps, in his dotage, John has forgotten all the one-sided weaseldom and parliamentary bumfoolery that was involved in passing Obamacare in the first place. (long string of *BLEEP*s redacted)
Posted by: SteveS   2017-09-22 17:06  

#6  McCain's legacy.

I guess we just give it two or three years without life support and all this will be moot.
Posted by: gorb   2017-09-22 16:45  

#5  If he doesn't die soon from his brain tumor the country is in dire need of primarying him out. All of his contrariness is simply because he wants to see nothing succeed during the Trump administration because he is so jealous Trump was able to get elected President and he could not. He proves himself unworthy of any public office almost daily now.
Posted by: Warthog   2017-09-22 16:25  

#4  Having observed the two for some time now I think it seems unusual for McCain and Graham to be on different sides of an issue. My only theory on the matter has nothing to do with principle but instead I wonder if Graham no longer sees McCain as a viable partner.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-09-22 16:22  

#3  Sorry Theatch, we'll have the current (corrupt) 2 party system. It's just more difficult to calculate the score.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-09-22 15:49  

#2  As long as we have RINOs, we will always have a three party system.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135   2017-09-22 15:15  

#1  Can we return the favor?
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-09-22 14:44  

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