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Candidate McCain Hates Obamacare. Senator McCain Loves It.
John McCain demands we repeal and replace Obamacare … during election time. But when given the chance to repeal and replace it, he always shoots it down. Friday he announced he wouldn’t support the Cassidy-Graham plan, stabbing his close friend Lindsey Graham in the back as well as Arizona governor Doug Ducey who endorsed the reform plan. Earlier this week, McCain claimed if Ducey supported it, he would as well.
But just one year ago, Sen. Maverick promised to fight Obamacare. He ran against former congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick, who was booted from her House seat after supporting the Affordable Care Act. McCain spent 2016 hammering Kirkpatrick and the unpopular program:
Two months before the election, McCain introduced a bill to stop Obamacare penalties in counties that lost most of their providers:
That month he also blasted Obamacare in a hearing, “if the Senator from Delaware and his Democrat friends want to join together with us, yeah, let’s let’s throw it where it belongs, in the trash can, and start all over and give people an affordable health care system that they can live with…”
It’s obvious that McCain is fine with Obamacare. He’s fine with 14 of 15 Arizona counties only having one insurance provider. He’s fine with average premiums for his constituents jumping from $196 to $422 in the last year.
Like most politicians, he’s great at making promises but has no intention of keeping them.
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You make a lot of odd allegations about me. Never understood that, but spreading misinformation is against the code of conduct.
And, yes, Kelli Ward is an atrocious candidate and is her own worst enemy. You can’t push ageism in Arizona since retirees make up so much of the voting population.
RINOCare
Where’s Doc Jay, or some other doctor? Seriously, how much longer does this guy have to live? This is a serious question. America deserves to know.
I had to duck pillock. I agree.
Did you support the re-election of John McCain in 2016 (regardless of whether you were a registered Republican and could actually vote for him at that time)?
Mona paean McCain? Overdue!
I didn’t support any candidate running in the primary (couldn’t vote for either if I did), and I voted for McCain against the Democrat in the general.
You’re just being evasive. You preferred McCain over Ward, as evidenced by a couple of negative tweets about her.
“Misinformation, particularly if it appears intentional or is a recurring problem.”
I’m unclear why me writing an article blasting McCain makes you think I love McCain, but I can assure you I do not.
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Personal attack.[Redacted]
Thank you, Senator McCain! Thanks to great statesmen like him, I will pay no medical expenses for the rest of the year. Even my name brand medications are free, free, free! And all for the bargain basement price of about $27,500. I’m with Mona, McCain is The Man. the real deal. McCain 2022: Because You Know You Want it Good and Hard. (Hope I don’t get redacted, I don’t mean it in a sexual way).
How could you tell the difference?
I’m sure you meant it in a Chestertonian way.
Immoral, unprincipled, back stabbing, menace to our freedom.
Or he’s been blackmailed since his Keating scandal days.
Wait. I should embrace the power of “and.”
I wanted another warm body filling an GOP Senate seat so we could repeal Obamacare.
Oh well, it was worth a shot.
Dude, go easy. I don’t know what was redacted but let’s save our fire for Democrats and McCain.
Too kind.
McCain hates the President. That’s what this is about. He talks about putting country before party but in this case he puts himself before both with his obstructionism, which is both petty and small. It’s a disgrace. He should lead, follow or get the hell out of the way. McCain can neither lead nor follow; he can only obstruct.
McCain has a real hangup with business people. Does anyone remember how offended he was by Gov. Romney, when he suggested that he could bring a fresh perspective to Washington as a businessman that McCain, as a long-serving Senator, could not? “You just bought and sold,” he said to Mitt.
Ego te absolvo…
Funding Planned Parenthood is an odd way of encouraging the aspirations of billions of people.
And in that regard, he is just like Trump. He likes attention.
Ironic, considering his membership in the Keating Five.
Too long.
It’s been what, 48 hours?
It is weird. I’ve thinking about this coincidence today.
To: @exjon
Hello Mr. Gabriel. I know nothing about Arizona politics, so I’ll ask you: Is it possible for Arizona to Recall Senator McCain’s election? Is there something on the books that allows it? Thinking of him doing this for the next 5 years is giving me heartburn.
If there is, I will donate money to the cause. I sign my name to that pledge.
JcT
Never confuse banking with business.
He is a mental and moral midget.