Senator John McCain was one of three Republican senators who voted against the Obamacare skinny repeal last week. His motive was pretty obvious: revenge.
Donald Trump was an equal opportunity insulter during the 2016 campaign. And it was inevitable that some of those on the receiving end would extract revenge when the opportunity arose. I predicted it would be Ted Cruz blocking something Trump wanted. Wrong. Cruz made the skinny repeal better and voted for it.
But John McCain couldn't rise above his hurt feelings.. And it probably didn't hurt for Joe Biden to lobby him with a tearful story about his own son. In that regard, McCain signaled that he really is no better than Donald Trump.
What will become of McCain? He's got health problems to deal with at the moment, and if he can't overcome them, then he may not be back in the Senate. Heck, maybe his brain cancer is affecting his judgment. A brain cancer diagnosis would probably cause a person to recognize his vulnerability, but not having been there myself, I couldn't say whether retribution becomes a dominate death bed driver.
In any event, those folks in the Senate are humans with their own emotions and motivations. Sometimes their emotions are so important to them that they put them over the needs of the country. That seems to be the case with John McCain.
Meanwhile, he will get to wear his Planned Parenthood superhero cape while he gets chemo. BTW, that cape looks less like a superhero cape than half a T-shirt.
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12:22 PM 7/30/2017
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