Posted on 07/28/2017 12:00:47 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In the end, it was a simple hand gesture - Senator John McCain pointing his right index finger in a downward motion to register a no vote - that ruined his party's seven-year effort to repeal Obamacare.
But in that signal in the early hours of Friday, the 80-year-old McCain also delivered a political gut-punch to U.S. President Donald Trump, a fellow Republican and a man he has clashed with repeatedly over the past two years.
McCain denied Trump what could have been the first major legislative victory of his administration, and demonstrated to the businessman-turned-president that Washington works in different ways from companies where CEOs have freer hands in dictating outcomes.
Despite McCain's tensions with the White House, Vice President Mike Pence was assigned the task of trying to convince him to vote for the so-called skinny bill that aimed to pare away parts of Obamacare.
Pence spent 21 minutes, according to reporters watching inside the Senate chamber, talking to McCain on the Senate floor.
McCain was not budging, even after taking a short phone call from the president.
After the Senate vote tally was announced in the Senate, McCain was embraced by senators from both sides of the aisle.
Democrats were delighted he had helped kill the Obamacare repeal effort and some Republicans just wanted to show their respect for the man.
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It’s rather difficult to be thankful for anything about Obama, but I’m a bit frightened about what might have been under a President McCain...
Certainly this: he’d be a one-termer and Hillary would have been elected in ‘12.
It may be a defeat or it may not be. We will know how this comes out when it comes out. DJ Trump is nothing if not devious.
The North Vietnamese should have finished him off.
But I do get annoyed with all the "American Hero" bit.
John Glenn was far more of an American Hero and I didn't give him a pass either. When it comes to corruption I am an EEO sort of person. :)
Final destination that is not for me to say but I am allowed to judge his actions. And his actions for the past 30 years have stunk.
It would be nice if there was some way we could organize to show him how much he is hated by so many. He needs to be shamed for this treachery.
McCain, you are a COWARD...RESIGN NOW, AS***LE!!!
Let’s be honest, if Trump vetoed a piece of legislation (regardless of what it was) that as near and dear to McCain, there would be praise for it (regardless of what it was).
Trump took out the field in the Republican primary in large part by belittling the hell out of them.
As a man, part of me doesn’t understand how Ted Cruz can be remotely civil to President Trump. He mocked his wife’s looks, accused his father of killing Kennedy, and nicknamed him Lyin’ Ted.
Anyway, the point is that approach is bound to create blowback at some point.
Except from Marco Rubio, because Marco is a eunuch.
I agree about both men.
So is that what this was all about??? Getting even in a personal grudge match? So, America suffers because McLame wanted to get EVEN?!!!
Glioblastoma multiforme is the most aggressive, degrading, horrific form of cancer out there.
I am delighted Senator John McCain has contracted it. It is the best news I have heard all year.
Suffer, you effin puke. Suffer and die.
With your last breath, mention my name.
to dog crap...
This may have very well been caused by Trump dissing McCain being a POW.
Pres. Trump is doing the same thing with some in his admin.
Please, please layoff the tweets and disparaging speeches.
You never know when you’ll need ‘a friend’.
Notice no mention of the millions who are truly being harmed by obamacare.
Tweet on Mr. President. Those without the courage to confront their enemies are why we're where we are now.
He did not hurt Trump like he hurt Americans as their insurance collapses.
As is typical of him, what a McCainhole !
So it is not about Healthcare for the American People it is about a NAM Traitor that hates POTUS.
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