Holy shit! The damn thing failed!!!
Jul. 28th, 2017 02:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamshark John McCain finally remembered where he kept his integrity and cast the surprise 3rd No vote to torpedo the last stupid remnant of the Obamacare Repeal Attempt.
That final vote seems to call for a sports analogy. Probably a Hail Mary Pass, but I'm not entirely sure I know what that means. Is it still a Hail Mary if it thuds to the ground and the other team piles onto the ball and causes it to implode? I think I know enough about football to know that this is an undesirable outcome, and that's what seems to have happened.
It was a ludicrous plan. The idea was that they all knew that "skinny Obamacare Repeal" would be a completely terrible and unworkable law but it would be okay to pass it if they could strong-arm Paul Ryan into promising not to bring it to a vote when it got back to the House (which he never did, btw). That way it wouldn't be the Senate's fault that they couldn't come up with a single constructive idea for "remaking health care." And by this time the Senators were so exhausted that they actually said this OUT LOUD. To REPORTERS. On VIDEO. Lindsay Graham called it a "half-assed plan" and "politically the dumbest thing in history." And THEN HE VOTED FOR IT. Dean Heller of Nevada drew out his Hamlet act for weeks with conscience-stricken soliloquies and repeated conferences with his state's popular governor. Then HE VOTED FOR IT.
I'd given up on John McCain after he bravely rose from his sick bed and flew to the Senate to express his strong convictions that this was the wrong way to make laws - and then voted YES on the first two votes. Oy. Then instead of going home to recuperate, he kept staggering around the Senate floor for the next 20 hours looking like he was about to pass out. But he was still there when the final "skinny repeal" vote came down and damned if he didn't join the ladies from Alaska and Maine in a resounding NO. Way to go, Senator McCain.
That final vote seems to call for a sports analogy. Probably a Hail Mary Pass, but I'm not entirely sure I know what that means. Is it still a Hail Mary if it thuds to the ground and the other team piles onto the ball and causes it to implode? I think I know enough about football to know that this is an undesirable outcome, and that's what seems to have happened.
It was a ludicrous plan. The idea was that they all knew that "skinny Obamacare Repeal" would be a completely terrible and unworkable law but it would be okay to pass it if they could strong-arm Paul Ryan into promising not to bring it to a vote when it got back to the House (which he never did, btw). That way it wouldn't be the Senate's fault that they couldn't come up with a single constructive idea for "remaking health care." And by this time the Senators were so exhausted that they actually said this OUT LOUD. To REPORTERS. On VIDEO. Lindsay Graham called it a "half-assed plan" and "politically the dumbest thing in history." And THEN HE VOTED FOR IT. Dean Heller of Nevada drew out his Hamlet act for weeks with conscience-stricken soliloquies and repeated conferences with his state's popular governor. Then HE VOTED FOR IT.
I'd given up on John McCain after he bravely rose from his sick bed and flew to the Senate to express his strong convictions that this was the wrong way to make laws - and then voted YES on the first two votes. Oy. Then instead of going home to recuperate, he kept staggering around the Senate floor for the next 20 hours looking like he was about to pass out. But he was still there when the final "skinny repeal" vote came down and damned if he didn't join the ladies from Alaska and Maine in a resounding NO. Way to go, Senator McCain.
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Date: 2017-07-28 06:09 pm (UTC)