McCain is just a blowhard and needs to go, But the point that he and others in the Senate were honest from the start they would not back Cruz or the Houses efforts.
That wasn't honesty that McLame showed. It was back stabbing cowardice. Juan tried the same idea Cruz did to go against Zerocare. He was just angry that a Wacko Bird was doing it.
Flashback: McCain Used Same Tactic Against Obamacare Cruz Is Using Now
Who better to tell Cruz he was on a fool's errand than a guy who'd already tried it and failed.
Why did the Republicans lose then? Several GOP senators abandoned the strategy and voted with Reid to move the Senate along. Those who broke with McCain and the rest of the Senate Republicans were Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Arlen Specter (D-PA) (who had just switched parties), and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX); of that group, only Collins still holds office in the U.S. Senate.
After that GOP strategy failed, Reid was able to pass the Senate version of Obamacare in late 2009.
McCain is just a blowhard and needs to go, But the point that he and others in the Senate were honest from the start they would not back Cruz or the Houses efforts.
That wasn't honesty that McLame showed. It was back stabbing cowardice. Juan tried the same idea Cruz did to go against Zerocare. He was just angry that a Wacko Bird was doing it.
Flashback: McCain Used Same Tactic Against Obamacare Cruz Is Using Now
The American people/voters forget so quickly. It's a real shame that Republicans can't do a better job at keeping the issues framed properly. They just roll over and concede. It's pathetic.
This ACA [so called] wasn't the will of the people. The Dem politicians rammed it through via parliamentary slight of hand when we here in MA elected Scott Brown to oppose it.
And now McCain is saying to all that we wanted it? It's the law of the land, it's constitutional?
Nevermind that those are Dem talking points. Doesn't any Republican know what we want?
The bureaucracy: the new fourth branch of government. The bureaucracy is permanent, unaccountable, unelected and choking us like a weed. The bureaucrat exists, generating nothing of value, using perceived problems to justify his existence.
Still, it seems McCains should have done a better job guiding the process. He was out to hurt the cause because it wasn't his any longer. Not that it matters...but the failure was clear to see. But Cruz and the others are on the record as the good guys.
Quote: Justme wrote in post #18...but the failure was clear to see.
That isn't true at all. If all the Senate GOP'ers stood solid as a united front, they would have peeled vulnerable Rats off to make a difference. Hell, they had Joe Manchin peeled off as it was and then they would only have needed 4 more.
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took a $2 Billion dollar bribe to destroy the country that our kids and grand kids will be paying for.
Quote: Justme wrote in post #18...but the failure was clear to see.
That isn't true at all. If all the Senate GOP'ers stood solid as a united front, they would have peeled vulnerable Rats off to make a difference. Hell, they had Joe Manchin peeled off as it was and then they would only have needed 4 more.
Quote: Justme wrote in post #18...but the failure was clear to see.
That isn't true at all. If all the Senate GOP'ers stood solid as a united front, they would have peeled vulnerable Rats off to make a difference. Hell, they had Joe Manchin peeled off as it was and then they would only have needed 4 more.
But they didnt. They were clear they wouldn't. Cruz hope to sway them was admirable. But it was a long long shot, never mind getting libs to turn