Electile Dysfunction (Current students plz look!)

[Ken]

So... check this out. John McCain, fresh off his tax payer funded healthcare surgery, gets off his hospital bed and flies back to DC to vote for a debate on healthcare that will ostensibly remove said healthcare for a large swath of United States citizens (nice!).

THEN - he clambers up on his soap box to give some self aggrandizing, grandiose speech about how this has been gone about the wrong way. Republicans have been hiding in rooms and creating a bill that is no good, that they need to reach across the aisle and work together (yay, unity!) and that he WILL NOT vote for the healthcare bill as it stands.

THEN - THIS MOTHERFUCKER VOTES FOR THAT BILL. http://www.gq.com/story/john-mccain-vote...t-vote-for

America, everybody, America. This fuck is the embodiment of what is wrong with our politics today, for both sides of the aisle. This had everything - selfishness, self importance, hypocrisy and just general douchiness.

Except, no. He voted for the motion to continue the debate, not the actual bill. His statement that he wouldn't vote for it in it's current form is still valid.
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Jesus. That is truly splitting hairs my friend. While it was a budgetary measure he voted in favor of, it was very clearly a vote either "for" or "against" BCRA. See: 9 other republicans vote against it (even though there initially only two against.)

This just further proves my point of what is wrong with politics, the ability to hide behind some bullshit rationale and people like you just nod and accept it.