John McCain Says There Is Nothing GOP Can Do to Stop "Terrible Mistake" of Obamacare (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, December 20, 2009, 10:03 AM
Stick a fork in it.
Senator John McCain admitted today that after the final vote was bought yesterday by Senator Ben Nelson from Nebraska that there is little the GOP can do to stop the Obamacare from passing. McCain adds that the GOP will keep on fighting the bill up to the last vote. Senator McCain spoke with Chris Wallace this morning on FOX News Sunday.
The Politico reported:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) concedes that Republican senators won’t be able to stop Democratic health care reform legislation from passing the Senate before Christmas.
“We will fight until the last vote,” McCain told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace. “We owe that to our constituents, because we must do everything – we must look back and say we did everything to prevent this terrible mistake from taking place.”
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listing starboard commented:
well maybe McCain could kick “Lie”bermans ass for starters.
Jayne on the left coast commented:
What exactly have you done Johnny Mac to stop this monstrosity?
Daniel commented:
McCain cannot be trusted.
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non_dhimmie commented:
Call McLame and say YOU LIE……
Vote this guy out in 2010…Hope Hayward kicks him back to AZ…..to his poor wife….
Martin McPhillips commented:
It’s not a “mistake.” It’s a blatant attack on American society to pass something this grotesque when the people are so clearly opposed to it. And I should add that McCain isn’t the leader I want to hear from on this. He’d buy into something not far down river from it if he had the opportunity. He is no more trustworthy than Lieberman, who just days ago was going to save us from this bill.
Obama and the Democrats are moving on multiple fronts to attack America and their least concern is about what Americans think. They have the power and they are going to use it.
retired military commented:
I still think Snowe and Collins may vote for it yet.
jainphx commented:
Who made this fool our spokesman. Some here and all over the internet tried to warn what a McCain candidacy would bring on this country, how did that work out?
The time to fight for McCain was during the campaign, all he did was wave the white flag, and now he’s surprised by the evil of this man. SDASU you are embarrassing your self, and all of us in Arizona. News flash McCain is so afraid of J.D. that he ( through ex Attorney General Grant Woods ) has filed a complaint with the election committee, that J.D should be force off his radio program. Seems he now has found his conservativeness now that he’s running scared. POS.
WRJonas commented:
I have been trying to encourage The Senate Republicans to enlist in a boycott of the State of the Union Address to illustrate unity in opposition to this debacle . There is a need to focus this disaster totally on Democrats so at the next election cycle the liars in the media won’t be able to claim that Republicans “supported it too”. This must be a rallying point by The GOP .
Blue Collar Todd commented:
The Senate GOP should at least attempt a filibuster to make the Democrats break it. Who is taking ObamaCare to the Supreme Court?
Auntie Em commented:
McCain needs to move out of the way. He is not a leader, and I regretted that I voted for him.
Auntie Em commented:
Allow me to clarify that previous post…he need to move out of the front of the GOP. All I see is appeasement and surrender when it comes to JMc.
If we are going to have a chance for the future pursuit of life, liberty and happiness we have to clean the Congress, SC and Executive Branches and put real Americans who have had their hands in the soil and love the ground they stand on and fear the God that gave it to them.
Chip Bennett commented:
It was always a possibility that Reid would cobble together 60 votes to pass… something… through the Senate.
The real battle – still, and as always – will be in conference.
The bill passed in the House has strong language banning the funding of abortions, and includes a Public Option. The bill (soon to be) passed in the Senate has no Public Option, and includes language that does allow for federal funding of abortions.
The House will not pass a conference report without a Public Option and without the Stupak amendment language banning funding of abortions. And both of those provisions, if included, will kill a conference report in the Senate.
And finally, assuming, somehow, that a conference report passes both chambers, the unconstitutional mandate on all Americans to purchase health insurance (or be fined or jailed) will be challenged – and defeated – in the courts, even if it has to go all the way to SCOTUS (and it will).
So, in the end, there really won’t be anything left, except for stifling bureaucracy, and an incredibly angry electorate.
But, the bill has to pass the Senate first. And, last I heard, there were still some non-committed Senators – most important of which might be Jim Webb (D-VA), who has to see the writing on the wall, after the 2009 gubernatorial election in his home state.
So, don’t give up the fight – or hope – yet.
I’ll end with this: if nothing else, this debacle should prove – once and for all – that Mitch McConnell is incompetent and sorely in need of replacement. The Republican Senate caucus needs leaders who are willing to be leaders, and to fight for conservative principles – and who are willing to fight fire with fire in a Senate controlled by power-hungry statists unconcerned with the rule of law or decorum.
jainphx commented:
Auntie Em- From your lips to G-ds ears! Most in this country have sat back and watched as the crooks and thieves took over. We can’t sit back any longer if we want to stay free. Time to be counted, either you’re for us or you’re our enemy, it’s you’re choice.
shibumi commented:
Wow, what a leader McCain is, just throws in the towel and says there’s nothing we can do. Gee, while he’s at it, why doesn’t he just admit that there’s nothing we can do to stop Iran, and that all US wars present and future will be a replay of Vietnam?
Why is this man not a Democrat?
jainphx commented:
Why is this man not a Democrat?
My goodness you mean he’s not?
jainphx commented:
Think back everyone, with all his warts, GWB was a pillar of conservatism compared to this pile of officious excrement.
daledog commented:
This McCain bashing is really foolish. Who among us would not prefer to have him as president right now?
Martin McPhillips commented:
@ Chip Bennett:
The Democrats are already shifting to a “Please, everybody, let’s just get our foot in the door” line on the bill. Tom Harken was pushing that the other day (he called the bill a “a starter home, not a mansion”) as was Bill Clinton (with his favorite old saw “don’t make the perfect the enemy of the good”).
These people have their eyes on the power this confers on the governing class, to have immediate discretion over such an intimate aspect of the lives of Americans, that they are not going to let it escape over abortion or the public option.
This is and always has been about power, and they do not even care that most of America does not want it. Their thinking runs along the lines of “when you have them by the b@lls, their hearts and minds will follow,” and that is the least of what this bill will get them.
jainphx commented:
You seem to forget that it was his campaign that gave us Obama, so your question is inane.
jainphx commented:
With McCain we would get to the same place that Obama wants, just a tad slower, don’t want to make the reach across to obvious!
bg commented:
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too little too late..
in this bass ackwards world that’s a before the
deal goes down action.. not an after the fact..
George Bush was right, preempt vs react..
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Robert commented:
“we must look back and say we did everything to prevent this terrible mistake from taking place”
‘except for me. I ran such a terrible campaign. I didn’t want to impugn the reputation of my good friend Barack Obama, so I helped him become the president and now he is going to destroy the essence of my country.’
Pawn commented:
Hindsight is golden. Keep complaining about the past and others will control your future.
AuntieMadder commented:
I voted for Palin. McCain was on the ticket, too.
Mike O commented:
I gather there are a number of parliamentary procedures the GOP could invoke to slow this down (like withholding unanimous consent). Invoking them would be unprecedented, but this whole process has already gone there. What would the GOP have to lose at this point? They simply don’t have the guts to do so. Is it any reason the Tea Party outpolls the GOP on both generic congressional ballot and approve/disapprove?
bg commented:
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i could swear McCain is two different people
with two distinctly oppositional persona’s..
a pit bull debater on the senate floor..
a kitty cat clown in front of a camera..
*sigh*
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merle commented:
Why does McCain have that silly smile on his face all the time? Does he not realize we are furious with what the Democrats are doing to America?!
McCain, get out of the way and make room for people who will fight for freedom!
Joanne commented:
McCain doesn’t have the will to fight – something that happens to the unrighteous….they lose that will.
DomesticGoddess commented:
There’s plenty we can do – vote ‘em out!
mike191 commented:
McCain thought that compromise and comity were the benchmarks of the Senate and now with doctrinaire leftists ,slash and burn Dems conjoined with our media pimping whores ,he now gives up.You sir are a disgrace, who helped enable this insane clown posse to flourish while you ate lunch with these pathogens.
jainphx commented:
We here in Arizona will not forget, with a good effort we will see to it that he retires.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Is this appearance McCain’s own doing, or did it happen courtesy of the Republican Party?
If this was arranged by the Republican Party, then they must not be getting it, because they appear to be stuck on RINOs.
Sojourner commented:
Shouldn’t these scoundrels be held accountable for their stand on the ‘Doctor Fix’ before they cast their vote for this piece of garbage?..we’re paying them to lie to us..Americans
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/25/we_pay_them_to_lie_to_us__99286.html