John McCain blood clot surgery delays healthcare reform vote

anatta said:
The Senate will delay votes on a bill to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, announced Saturday night, because of a new obstacle to winning enough support for one of the Republican Party’s most cherished goals.

Mr. McConnell said the Senate would “defer consideration” of the bill, scheduled for this week, because Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, would be absent, recovering from surgery that he had on Friday to remove a blood clot above his left eye.

Mr. McConnell had said that he wanted to begin debate on the bill and pass it this week, using special fast-track procedures. But without Mr. McCain, Senate Republicans would not have the votes they need to take up or pass their bill to repeal and replace major provisions of the health care act that was the signature domestic achievement of President Barack Obama.

It was unclear how long the delay will be. “The leader has not announced a date” for the Senate to take up the legislation, said an aide to Mr. McConnell. “Just that we will defer.”

The announcements, first by Mr. McCain, then by Mr. McConnell, dealt another setback to the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which once seemed inevitable after years of promises by congressional Republican leaders that they would dismantle it.

With control of the White House and both Houses of Congress, Republican leaders foresaw a quick strike coming as soon as January or February. But the House struggled to pass its version of the bill, and the Senate has had even more troubles. Mr. McConnell had to postpone the first votes before the July 4 recess when it was clear he did not have enough support for a procedural motion to take up the bill.

A revised measure unveiled last week was supposed to win over more Republicans, but it was greeted quickly with two Republican defections: Senators Susan Collins of Maine, a moderate, and Rand Paul of Kentucky, a conservative. Both have said they oppose the bill in its current form, for very different reasons, and will not vote even to begin debate.

That left Mr. McConnell without a single vote to spare. Mr. McCain’s ailment cost him the final vote — at least for now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/15/...l-delay-senate-votes-on-health-care-bill.html
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McCain might have gotten an enema, nothing more, but if he did have surgery hopefully he will be a cucumber going forward
 
anatta said:
wtf are you jabbering about?
Does McCain get some privlege to serve in the Senate?

He's a war hero. give him his due and get him outta here.
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its what trumpy said about McCain you idiot


"I like people who didnt get captured"
 
domer76 said:
You don't recall what that piece of shit Trump said about him, do you?
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fuck him, we'd all be better off if he never was in the Senate. He's a Russiaphobic warpig.
Thank God Obama beat him for president, or we'd be in the Ukraine by now
 
I call BS on libcuck's fake admiration. Remember when they called him "McSame"? Pepe remembers.
 
Amadeus said:
Yes, because he opposes the will of Putin, he must die. You have been well-schooled in the art of Russian politics.
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McCain tie-dyed 'Tied Up' ad
At the GOP debate on Sunday, McCain got a standing ovation for his line criticizing Clinton for wanting to allocate $1 million for a Woodstock museum.

"Now my friends, I wasn't there," McCain said of the rock-and-roll festival. "I'm sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event. I was tied up at the time.

His campaign has now created a 30-second ad, called "Tied Up," from what the campaign calls his "classic line." The ad, which will run in New Hampshire, begins with a spinning tie-dyed image and The Doors playing in the background. It cuts back to a serious-looking McCain at the debate delivering his line. When he says "tied up at the time," the image cuts away again, this time to video of McCain as a prisoner of war.

"No one can be President of the United States that supports projects such as these," McCain concludes.
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2007/10/24/4426579-mccain-tie-dyed-tied-up-ad?lite
 
anatta said:
McCain tie-dyed 'Tied Up' ad
At the GOP debate on Sunday, McCain got a standing ovation for his line criticizing Clinton for wanting to allocate $1 million for a Woodstock museum.

"Now my friends, I wasn't there," McCain said of the rock-and-roll festival. "I'm sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event. I was tied up at the time.

His campaign has now created a 30-second ad, called "Tied Up," from what the campaign calls his "classic line." The ad, which will run in New Hampshire, begins with a spinning tie-dyed image and The Doors playing in the background. It cuts back to a serious-looking McCain at the debate delivering his line. When he says "tied up at the time," the image cuts away again, this time to video of McCain as a prisoner of war.

"No one can be President of the United States that supports projects such as these," McCain concludes.
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2007/10/24/4426579-mccain-tie-dyed-tied-up-ad?lite
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I didn't read any of that because you didn't actually put forth your own point.
 
Buckly J. Ewer said:
McCain is covered.
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in blood

Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham want tougher sanctions against Russia following the hacking scandal.

In a show of solidarity, McCain Visited Frontline Ukraine Troops in Anti-Putin Gesture on New Year’s Eve.

“We stand w/them in their fight against #Putin’s aggression,” McCain wrote in one tweet.

The irony is staggering. Ukraine is a mess because of US meddling.It’s not Russia than started or was responsible for Crimea and the war in Ukraine that ensued, it was the US.

On April 30, 2014, the Guardian reported It’s not Russia that’s pushed Ukraine to the brink of war
 
anatta said:
McCain is at war with hippies, druggies,and the Ruskies...oh and the Chinese & anybody else that irks his bile
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Putin is at war with gays, Muslims, liberals, Americans, Ukranians, Syrian civilians, political dissent within Russia, etc., etc., etc. So why are you hating on McCain and not Putin? Oh... right.
 
Amadeus said:
Putin is at war with gays, Muslims, liberals, Americans, Ukranians, Syrian civilians, political dissent within Russia, etc., etc., etc. So why are you hating on McCain and not Putin? Oh... right.
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we have done a number on Afghanistan civilians and hospitals.
we are not at war with Russia although you and McCain are. We destabilized the Ukraine..

The rest of that is Putin's business,
just like McCain being at war with Woodstock and our old counter-culture is our business
 
anatta said:
in blood

Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham want tougher sanctions against Russia following the hacking scandal.

In a show of solidarity, McCain Visited Frontline Ukraine Troops in Anti-Putin Gesture on New Year’s Eve.

“We stand w/them in their fight against #Putin’s aggression,” McCain wrote in one tweet.

The irony is staggering. Ukraine is a mess because of US meddling.It’s not Russia than started or was responsible for Crimea and the war in Ukraine that ensued, it was the US.

On April 30, 2014, the Guardian reported It’s not Russia that’s pushed Ukraine to the brink of war
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The longer Turtle boy's mean heath-care bill is postponed the more likely it will die without a vote.
McCain's blood clot surgery is good news for America...
 
I'll criticize his politics, often have, but I have great respect for the man.
 
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