Posted on 07/17/2017 10:03:25 AM PDT by rdl6989
strike three
He’s 80 and a Vietnam torture and cancer survivor. Anyone who thought about it knew what they were getting in terms of health, or should have.
I think it’s more likely he’ll pass away than willingly quit.
“It is one thing to hold a seat open for Gabby Giffords in the House of Representatives, but that was not a critical thing in relation to the passage of one version of legislation over another.”
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Especially a bill of such incredible importance.
Very serious operation. Pathology should be in today. Likely no traveling for McCain for weeks, this could severely limit the ability of the do nothing GOP to do anything with 49 senators.
Remember Ted Kennedy never resigned for months.
“I couldn’t help but wonder at the timing of this. Lots of talk about the dossier, McCain involvement, etc. Call me jaded.”
You are not the Long Rangette.
If McCain is discharged with significant brain impairment, no one will try to charge him with sedition or anything.
He will become the press’s favorite Mentally impaired war hero.
All he will have to do after being discharged is to behave like he has been doing for decades!~
“I think that he really did, despite all we’ve been told, to the contrary, he really DID get his BELL RUNG, by the VietComs at the Hanoi-Hilton.”
John crashed 3 planes and survived before his final crash in a rice paddy in Nam.
The first 3 crashes had to ring his bell.
His final crash, an unplanned landing in a Rice Paddy in Nam, probably really rang his bell. Of course the Viet Cong rescuers probably inflicted a few rings of his bell.
His Annapolis Classmates wondered about his behavoir at Annapolis and afterwards.
Ask OnyX her husband was in his graduating class!.
First, apologies for the tardy response. Life got unexpectedly busy for a few days.
Second, I take your drift that it’s as minimal as possible and perhaps not too dangerous but my personal heebie jeebies wont allow me to think of something going in my skull as anything other than four-alarm huge.
But I’m not a veteran that’s been through his life...
Lastly, I did some rough looking and every source I found for a one week recuperation eventually went back to Mitch McM’s office. Wishful thinking on his part? It seems like the family expected longer.
Then, behold, it comes out a few hours ago that they pulled out a tumor in addition to a blood clot. Through the end of the August recess, at a minimum, seems appropriate. Assuming he hasn’t made plans for ill-health and resigning. Even he has limits and I think he prepares for ugly ends.
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