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McCain just walked onto senate floor to standing ovation. (Original Post) riversedge Jul 2017 OP
Ovation for what? pangaia Jul 2017 #1
He will be voting. riversedge Jul 2017 #8
I sat home eating popcorn , yelling FUCK YOU and BOOOO BOOOO! BigmanPigman Jul 2017 #2
And cast a YES vote. Raster Jul 2017 #3
Bless his heart BeyondGeography Jul 2017 #4
He thumbs-upped an AYE BumRushDaShow Jul 2017 #5
A hero's welcome. Prelude to mass murder. dalton99a Jul 2017 #6
And voted to proceed. What a fucking showboater. WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2017 #7
Rich white male gets his standing O. The rest of us get fucked. Weekend Warrior Jul 2017 #9
No sympathy from me nt maryellen99 Jul 2017 #10
May he live another 10 years with unimaginable daily pain n/t Blaukraut Jul 2017 #11
How un-mavericky typical of him Freethinker65 Jul 2017 #12
And did I hear them announce his "aye" along with Johnson's? Nt Atticus Jul 2017 #13
McCain's epitaph: "Here lies a spineless partisan hack" dalton99a Jul 2017 #14
Using a brain cancer survivor to cast the deciding vote that kills Obamacare is high theatre Not Ruth Jul 2017 #15
You realize that that's not what this vote was, do you not? WillowTree Jul 2017 #22
Technically I do, but that is not that narrative Not Ruth Jul 2017 #23
Oh, BARF. Sugar Smack Jul 2017 #16
During my cancer treatments there were older people who were short Solly Mack Jul 2017 #17
No they can't imagine that. Nor would they recognize how wrong it is that anyone would suffragette Jul 2017 #19
Yes. They would be exactly like that. Solly Mack Jul 2017 #20
Stupid Democrats in congress - STOP appeasing these monsters flamingdem Jul 2017 #18
I wish the man no ill will Opbrg Jul 2017 #21
Grumpy shows up to shit all over 20 or 30000000 Americans and the gets standing O, we are so fucked! FreeStateDemocrat Jul 2017 #24
 

Weekend Warrior

(1,301 posts)
9. Rich white male gets his standing O. The rest of us get fucked.
Tue Jul 25, 2017, 03:03 PM
Jul 2017

That display is exactly what is wrong with this country.

Solly Mack

(90,773 posts)
17. During my cancer treatments there were older people who were short
Tue Jul 25, 2017, 03:13 PM
Jul 2017

on their co-payment to get either their chemo or radiation - often both - and people, other patients, would pitch in to make up the difference.

Can McCain or any of the GOP imagine having to do that? Do they have an idea what that must feel like?

Going to your cancer treatment anyway and hoping that someone can help you out because you don't have the money to get the treatment to save your life. Not enough money to cover even a small co-payment.

Hoping against hope that it would somehow all work out.










suffragette

(12,232 posts)
19. No they can't imagine that. Nor would they recognize how wrong it is that anyone would
Tue Jul 25, 2017, 03:26 PM
Jul 2017

be in such a horrible position to have to hope that people who happened to be in that place would help fund you to have access to life saving treatment.

They would be like George Bush when he said how great it was that a person would have to work three jobs to get by.

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
18. Stupid Democrats in congress - STOP appeasing these monsters
Tue Jul 25, 2017, 03:15 PM
Jul 2017

We cannot even pretend to support them. This is a civil war.

Opbrg

(85 posts)
21. I wish the man no ill will
Tue Jul 25, 2017, 03:33 PM
Jul 2017

but what makes him any more special than any other person who has or had cancer and continues on with their daily lives. I am so tired of our politicians thinking they are above the rest of us.

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