McDonnell Would Be Brazen Enough To Fly McCain In To Repeal Obamacare.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Just imagine MeConnell have McCain with cancer brought in to repeal Obamacare and take 32 million off of health care.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. That would take balls.....

that Mitch McConnell does not have. Not to mention poor taste. McCain should abstain.

[bdtrppr6]

2. wheel him in at the last second,

mccain says "I am a hero. I vote, repeal." as his last breath squeaks out.

[Warpy]

3. The terrible news McCain has just gotten

I can easily see him tell McConnell to go to hell.

He might love his job like Kennedy did and try to serve out his term. Or he might want to take things as they come at home with his family, enjoying what he can while he can.

Either way, I doubt he's going to be in any mood to be summoned by a shitbag like McConnell.

[bettyellen]

4. Apparently he promised to vote for the repeal next week.

[Gravitycollapse]

5. McCain can go fuck himself if that's what he decides to do.

[Demsrule86]

7. He doesn't have the votes...we should keep calling though...keep it that way.

[Demsrule86]

6. He doesn't have the votes. I can't imagine what McConnell is thinking. He is going to make the

Senators take a tough vote...unbelievable. I can't help but think this guy's prowess as a leader is overrated.

[OnDoutside]

8. I mentioned something similar earlier in the week,

Cornyn called McConnell a master legislator, and in destructive terms, he has a point, but it's easy to be negative but much harder to be constructive and inclusive. He doesn't have a good record on that.

[Demsrule86]

11. I think McConnell had it easy in some ways. All he had to do was fight the president

on all things...he even stole our nomination...he didn't have to craft any legislation really...just had to do debt ceiling and not shutting down the government...both of which he failed quite spectacularly on a couple of times. Governing is different if you are in power...this is a terrible bill and he can't win. If it passed and if it fails he loses...and now maybe he loses his majority in 18.

[OnDoutside]

14. 100% right.

[Demsrule86]

12. He is putting his majority at risk by forcing them to take a vote which he will lose anyway.

That is pure spite.

[OnDoutside]

13. In a perverse way, I think he believes that this will give him SOME cover in 2018. Ideally he won't

get enough votes to get it onto the floor. McCain won't be there (Lawrence O'Donnell talked about a friend who had the same illness and reckoned there's no way he could travel so soon), and Collins has already said no. Looks like Murkowski has also said no.

[moonscape]

9. His sinister modus operandi is beyond our imaginations. Am quite

sure his rationale is well thought-out, thoroughly evil, and could accomplish whatever his twisted objective is.

[Demsrule86]

10. I don't think so. I think he is just pissed off...and will make his caucus pay...even

if he cuts off his nose to spite his face. Time for him to go but of course we Dems want him here so he can keep on screwing up.

[moonscape]

16. While I see him as more calculating, how I hope you're right n/t

[Demsrule86]

19. He is calculating but he has had a pretty easy go of it...easier to be Senate leader

when you are not responsible for outcomes...he has some real battle ahead...he need Dems for the debt ceiling.

[Hortensis]

15. McCain has been a big part of what the GOP has become,

mainly servant to ultrawealthy right-wing extremists. He's used and accepted the promotion by his party of white nationalism, xenophobia, voter suppression, and the turning of GOP voters into a political partisan hate group.

Yes, he has put his personal brakes on at some of the extremism, and we do need him to continue doing what he is now, but far too little too late. It'd not be what his nation needed even if he succeeded, tremendously overweighed by his whole appalling betrayal of his duty by opposing healthcare reform and then trying to take most of it away in spite of massive public support.

And that "giant sucking sound?" The transfer of our nation's wealth and power to a few? McCain has been behind most of the worst they have done over the past 30 years.

He's no hero to me for merely opposing repealing healthcare outright or using it as an excuse to gut Medicaid, and if he "flies in" to vote, that and his vote itself will be his choice, as always. HE won't be the victim.

[Tom Rinaldo]

17. Can you even begin to imagine "the optics"? Ugh n/t

[BSdetect]

18. Weekend at Bernie's even?