Feel terrible for John McCain but................ - Page 5

**Baxter49** · July 29th, 2017, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by scoundrel

I cant help suspecting that if Mr McCain fed the 5,000, healed lepers and walked on water there would still be a chorus of criticism on this thread about what a rotter he is. He was being slagged off as a hypocrite for coming back to the House when he is dangerously ill and supposedly supporting the abolition of healthcare for the American people when he himself is getting healthcare paid for by the American people. Now that he has torpedoed the Republican attempt to abolish Obamacare he is criticised for indulging in political theatre. In the American vernacular: what a crock.

I did not start this thread a week ago to be critical, it was obvious he would do exactly what he did.

No one needed his dramatics, or his vendetta with Trump or Obama.

He is criticized because frankly he richly deserves it.

The right thing to do was simple, return from treatment, claim everyone deserves the same right to healthcare he just received, and he would not vote to have any discussion until some bipartisan ideas come out from both sides toward that end to fix the problems.

Instead almost millions lost healthcare in razor-thin votes because he voted yes for those votes to reach the floor, he wanted to keep his credibility with republicans as his first priority.

PatentHappy · July 29th, 2017, 03:02 PM

I find it difficult to be partisan when it comes to the US Congress. Consider:

1) 60 Minutes confronted Congress about their exemption from 'insider trading'. They acknowledged it was unfair and prone to abuse, so they voted it away. A few months later, they quietly voted it back in.

2) Congress voted Obamacare in as a requirement for every American...except Congress. They exempted themselves because the insurance plan they already had was so much better than Obamacare they insisted they keep it.

Clearly, hypocrisy has no party affiliation.

But permit me to defer to the king of wit:

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." - Mark Twain

July 29th, 2017, 03:02 PM	#42
PatentHappy Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 129 Thanks: 1,656 Thanked 1,462 Times in 129 Posts	Suppose you were an idiot (the Royal 'you', not you) I find it difficult to be partisan when it comes to the US Congress. Consider: 1) 60 Minutes confronted Congress about their exemption from 'insider trading'. They acknowledged it was unfair and prone to abuse, so they voted it away. A few months later, they quietly voted it back in. 2) Congress voted Obamacare in as a requirement for every American...except Congress. They exempted themselves because the insurance plan they already had was so much better than Obamacare they insisted they keep it. Clearly, hypocrisy has no party affiliation. But permit me to defer to the king of wit: "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." - Mark Twain