07-26-2017, 02:36 PM
It's just ironic. Krugman predicted it, we already noticed it, what happened to John McCain..
Quote:Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) returned to Washington DC mid-recovery from brain surgery with an impassioned speech about bipartisanship and a striking declaration that he would not support the Senate’s health care bill.McCain said he wouldn’t vote for the Senate health care bill. 6 hours later he did. - Vox
“I will not vote for this bill as it is today,” McCain said on the Senate floor, after voting to proceed to debate “to allow debate to continue and amendments to be offered.” He castigated the bill’s secretive process and called for the Senate to “return to regular order” in the Senate. Six hours later, McCain voted for the Senate’s health care bill.
Technically he voted on a senate procedural matter — on whether or not the bill satisfied budget rules. But it was not lost on any senator on the floor Tuesday night that their vote was an yay or nay on the Better Care Reconciliation Act itself.
The legislation, which Republicans labored over for months using a secretive and confusing process, would have resulted in 22 million fewer Americans having health insurance. McCain was among the loudest voices against Senate Leadership’s closed process on health care. He told Vox he would have run the show “dramatically different.”