Sen. John McCain's 'thumbs down' vote against repealing Obamacare: An oral history 

I am thoroughly convinced Mitch McConnell is a reptile.

@@whyshouldicarehistory5038 Throw some Moscow Mitch in there too.

@@Acriimony *Turkey

Cocaine Mitch at his finest

Ice Cream Pelosi and Chuck idgaf Schumer are just as corrupt. (if you don't get the references, learn more about politics).

I honestly like to think Arizona turning blue was partly a consequence of how John McCain was treated by Trump. I don't know if that's the case, but the idea that his fresh mouth cost him for once is fun to entertain.

John McCain was Arthur Morgan, and Arizona was John Marston seeking vengeance. Donald Trump is Micah.

jokes on you, difference: 12,800, soon to be RED.

@@TheXsaintz ha. Arizona doesn’t have enough outstanding votes for Trump to win. Get out of your fantasy. It’s sad.

@@cstrutherskgs Don’t worry, he’s just waiting for all the Republicans who mailed their ballots in. 😉

@@carsonfrazier9246 My friend it's not about Democrats or Republicans it's about honoring a man that did what he thought was right not throwing blame.

@@carsonfrazier9246 he literally said nothing about democrats in his comment

Bush is still alive

There's still Mitt Romney

Yeah. The only GOP senators I respect are Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins

I don't think that was it, he seemed to be a good person and I think he would have voted that way regardless

Totally agree

I don't think that McCain changed, he was always a good and decent man in my opninion

McCain was a true conservative not like these new age selfish conservatives who just steal

Ham ster you don’t say!

Ikr, I just realized he saved so many.

Oh yeah, we can keep our doctor and our healthcare. Lies, we were being Federalized with a socialist system and socialized medicine. It would have been much worse by now and extremely expensive and if you need treatment or a medical procedure, wait in line. There would be such a shortage of doctors and health care would be only for the elite rulers of this country. Again you would have to wait in line. The American system has saved many lives from other countries like Canada who needed an immediate operation, but had to wait in line. Who knows, we may even cure cancer..

@@GGE47 Doctors are curing cases of cancer all the time. Not only in the US, but worldwide. Point is that if a lot of people cannot access health care, being able to cure does not improve public health. At all.

@@maxim3830 Socialism never works and that is why we were able to save others that had the same type of care that Obamacare was. We would not be able to see our doctor that we wanted and not have the healthcare system to choose from. It would be one gigantic takeover by the government of all healthcare. That IS Barack Obama, a socialist who wanted to takeover every facet of life in our country just like the ones before him regardless of party. I am so glad I can see the doctor I have been seeing for years, but the lie that Obama said we could see our doctor really worried me. There would be no private healthcare for me to choose from. Neither would anybody else. It would all be the same plan for everybody. Wait in line because more and more doctors were planning an early retirement and fewer people studying to be a doctor resulting in a shortage of doctors. Socialism always produces shortages of everything. Just look at these socialist countries like Venezuela, once a well to do high quality of life with freedom from government. All Communist countries are socialists and the people do suffer from the system itself, not to mention the brutal dictators who rule over them. That is not the America I grew up in, but was steamrolling in that direction. It was more gradual at first, but became so much faster it would not have taken long for Hillary Clinton to be America's first dictator. She of course would really be a willing puppet of the New World Order that I have been watching since the 1960s. That has all changed with Trump. We will have our healthcare plan we want and see the doctor of our choice. Less rules and regulations to live by making it less difficult for businesses to provide services and products we can now take for granted. We would just be waiting in line for food, doctors, not the one we choose, but the one assigned to us by the state. Obama told a big lie, when he said we could keep our doctor and our healthcare.

​@@GGE47 The fact that you'd call universal health care socialist shows how uninformed you are. Dream on about your cures for cancers that the majority of your fellow countrymen will not be able to benefit from. That probably you yourself won't be able to benefit from. Dream on in your petty district 9 society...

No gasps cause chamber is used to that morons antics

@@lunafringe10 Go F#*@k yourself, juju moron!

I loved McCain man. A true American I wish we could get a republican like him

Yea

Lol, it’s pretty hilarious when someone named juju calls someone else a moron.😂😂😂

Look at his facial expression :)) from laughing to NANI?!

And a last F YOU to trump for turning arizona blue

It is our duty as Americans to give Mitch McConnell a middle finger whenever we have the chance.

A downed thumb really trumps (no pun intended) any given number of middle fingers

@@fuongbregas hahaha

@sinnerandprejudice yea overall I don’t like her too much, but in this case she did do a good thing

@sinnerandprejudice Her "no" on ACB saved her at the last moment, I think.

What about the Democratic senators?

@@paxundpeace9970 they did also, i said this since they were the republicans who voted against it

@@r0nittotlani Thanks for editing

The reason they don't get praise seems to be that they were expected to vote against it. Whereas McCain just flew in (reference intended ) at the last minute and made the decisive vote. Still, credit to them.

Yes they deserve credit also, agreed.

I remember hearing somewhere that John McCain interrupted chemotherapy treatment to fly in and vote ensuring that millions of Americans keep receiving well deserved medical care.

Um do you not realize that if no other republican had voted no then it would have been a split vote and Pence would break the tie??? He saved a couple hundred thousand lives per year with that thumbs down. No cap. If he hadn’t been there Obama care would be gone.

@@CaptainSpalding72 is that a threat?

Calling him a frog is an insult to frogs 😅

I expect you to deliver an apology to the frog community for counting McConnell among them.

I mean he ain't lying McCain wasn't afraid of giving a big FU when it was needed

Lmfao im dead, he looks just like a frog

Turtle*

Nice words Jay.

I think Romney has picked up a lot of the role McCain left with his passing. You can't replace a man like McCain, but you can honor his legacy and service.

@@docmorrell I agree! There are a few good ones. Kinzinger definitely goes into this category.

Let's not forget Jeff Flake (lately) and John Kasich. There's plenty of good GOP politicians out there, they just don't cheat their way to the top.

Socialist healthcare doesn't belong in America. Let insurance companies handle healthcare. Socialist healthcare is un American.

pratik dutta...unforch....THEIR "voice of reason"......is trump!!

republicans have a tendency to steamroll everything when they get back to power. So whoever it is, as long as the guy says yes to their agenda, they support him. But in the process they loose sight of the long term good.

pratik dutta It was a terrible call it keeps middle class Americans paying for unemployed people’s health care. Everyone should pay for there own health care no government in health care

The voice of reason? It was one bill. I probably would’ve voted the same as McCain.

Zach Thomas Wow you must hate America

Trump is human dogshit, shouldn't even have been born

It’s funny how u liberals call him a draft dodger when it was liberals rushing to Mexico And Canada to flee the draft,Also Bernie and Clinton never served

Abraham Rivera yep, least they don’t insult the vets that do though

Get ready for the ACA be repealed again!

The republicans have been trying to repeal ACA for half a decade now lol...

@Order11110 Bruh, you a whole new level of stupid.

@@somekidnamedenzo4932 How exactly? Why can’t he admire who he wants? Or are you just a salty individual..?

@@AlexFromPhoenix No, i just forgot I had left this comment, what did he say again?

@Order11110 ?

Well yeah a very public thumbs up, I don't remember any big politicians had that moment like John did.

Well said friend.

Joan Casey why You can see him when you look down into hell

Diana Schneider Lmao he served his country instead of being a nobody. Trump will meet you as well

AMERICA IS A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC

👏👏👏

I was very impressed with his vote on healthcare. But people are now creating a myth about the man. He always worked for the party, look at his voting record. One of the most consistent senators in always voting with the Republican party. Healthcare was a huge exception.

tuco james you would have cracked 1st but too much of a coward to go. So you fake bonespurs. Because that's what you do. Because you're a fake in everything you do.

tuco james wasn't referring to you. But I'll take it. Drinking the Dotard's Kool aid can make you woozy.

how many american troops RIGHT THIS VERY MOMENT stealing, murdering people YOU don't even know, all this because mccain and his criminal friends wants their natural resources!! hero? he's a disgrace to humanity for espousing useless/senseless wars. unless you support TERRORIST then i don't blame you for supporting this senator.

tuco james Too bad for you but in this country we honor all of our Veterans. So should you comrade. See we all are under one Flag.

Mccaine sang like a bird when he got captured

I gasped as well. I don't think the current person sitting in the Whitehouse *_*REALLY*_* cares about "Making America Great Again". He doesn't standby ALL Americans, his fellow countrymen. He is biding his time, setting up to leave DC with all the money and benefits of his true people: the rich, Russia and his children. He has divided the people of the US taken advantage of their distain for Obama. Who at the end of the day really wasn't their enemy. His fault, was not moving swiftly enough to make the changes he ran on (even with 8 years).

Yellowwood I completely agree with you.

bonn1 history and the rest of us ignores ignorants like yourself. Nobody believes in your opinions and nobody cares about what you may think is the truth.

Yellowwood The country was divided under Obama

@@thanos2170 the United States has always divided itself alo what the world sees and hears TODAY OR THESE DAYS from a man who is a supposed leader. The current person in the Whitehouse is there on on a part ( damn near) per diem basis. He irresonsibly strikes division via persona and dog whistling. You'd have to be blind and ignorant not to see trump as he is and THAT IS a person not suitable to call himself a leader or a president.

@Larry Davisson thanks for sharing senator McCain helped save millions of people health care plz vote this November

@Larry Davisson that no vote saved a lot of people health care thanks for your comment take your concerns/frustrations out at the polls

Thank god he voted to take my money.. cost me 600 dollars a month for health care only making 1500 a month so you can thank people like me for paying for your operation on top of all the other taxes I pay ... your welcome

@@MaddenMaster843 It shouldn't cost that much if you're only making $1500 per month. It still is more expensive because I was paying $104 before the ACA, then it shot up to nearly $300. I've been without insurance for a year and saved myself $3000.

He’s unfortunately dead now, but his legacy still lives on

True, I saw his character when he defended Obama in front of his supporters. He was a good man.

@@devinhigoy221 John was a decent man, just he wanted too many wars....he still lived in the cold war

He was a decent guy but let's not get ahead of ourselves. He still held Republican policies. The same ones that put this country in the toilet three times over the last 30 years. And the same ones we constantly have to elect Democrats to fix. Bush Sr was a decent man, but horrible economically. Clinton was a decent man (but bad husband) and left us with a surplus. Bush Jr was a decent goofball but clearly out of his depth. Left us with a recession and several unwinnable wars. Obama (and Biden) were decent people who pulled us out of that recession and put us on the road to recovery. Trump...good lord... Biden is a wonderful human being who will, once again, have to clean up a Republican's mess. And I have faith that he'll do it.

@@ghostkid252 I was wondering if anyone else saw the trend I noticed. Its basically been a multiple layer sandwich and all the Democrats fix Republicans mess.

@@ghostkid252 Bush Sr was not that bad in economics, people only think that the recession pulled into 1992, which was only the Summer of 1991, however he also had to deal with Reagan's deficits.

He is a Patriot and a good Man!

Norma Jean wrong ..we American have spoken that's why we voted for Trump to get rid of Obamacare John McCain double standard at first against it now support??

Norma Jean WHATTTT!!?? You Americans hate John McCaine!!!

Brian Plummer No, he lost the popular vote, but won because of gerrymandering.

Brian Plummer You're still in the minority moron.

Me too. I’m getting verklempt again right now. Rest easy, you did your job well, Senator.

And the people that used the ACA the most during the pandemic were the ones that wanted to repeal it.

...by saving the single major legislative accomplishment of the man that defeated you back in 2008. He could've been bitter and resentful about it, like Trump, but he wasn't. It really speaks volumes about how decent and generous he was as a human being.

@@dionbaillargeon4899 you are too right. I can't even describe it. This moment is a masterpiece of life as it is.

Please dont forget also the two republican women who voted against the repeal : Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski

Wow

Glad to still have you with us.

@Order11110 do you have any evidence of this

@@darthvader9969 run while you still can from the crazy

Order11110 yo big Russian bot makes no sense

Order11110 Can you reply with four dots

What’s really sad is how the GOP has tried to turn their party against both men. Despite perfectly embodying true conservative values, Mccain and Romney have been rebranded as “RINOs” by their own party simply for adhering to their morals and thinking for themselves.

It's was a shame about his running mate: Nailin Palin.

mccain is indeed a class act. theres a vide of him taking back the mic forcibly from a woman in his rally because she called obama an arab.

@@khabib29-0goat3 To be clear and transparent, McCain took the mic from her after she was calling him an Arab to correct her, because she was wrong and McCain wanted to clear up the confusion.

The country would’ve been in good hands with either one of those candidates.

@Order11110 Stop smoking PCP.

Time stamp?

@@samreenkhan8243 2:55 or 2:56 - it's a little hard to pick him out but he's kind of in the center but top of the screen, in the second row of desks up from the floor. Right before McCain gives the thumbs down, he kind of taps his colleague on the arm and points to McCain. It's funny as there's a ton of little things going on during McCain's thumbs down.

Takes 47 years for Biden who has been in senate and politics to finally want to make change. What have he been doing besides passing laws that benefit his family and inner circle of friends wallet in his 47 years in power to make changes? 47 years still the middle class suffer. Every election the democrat presidential candidate promise the same thing: help the middle class yet none has done it. Fascinating how we, the people, are being fool by the democrats. The democrats pass laws with more government control that suppressed us from achieving our financial freedom. Wake up and stop getting suckered from democrats "free handouts".

@@tradeswithjohnnie I'll take nothing over the resounding harm that Trump and McConnell have thrusted onto us for the past four years.

@@tradeswithjohnnie And what exactly has the Republican Party done for the middle class? Please I’m all ears.

Both political parties suck. End of story.

@@AlexFromPhoenix Nothing and trying to stop The Forgiveness Student Loan.

McCain has taken up residence in what comprises the Brain of Fat Donny Chump the draft dodging Banktrumping BOY.

Lol trump called him before no wonder he voted no 😂🤣😂

Mr President, this is from Nancy McCain, "We dont want to see you at my heroic daddies funeral". Trump: " I never had any intention to go to funerals". Dying is boring. I m at Mar el Lago if there is an emergency, signing out now you lost hussy,

RIP McCain. McCain was the last real Republican I voted for. It makes me sad to see the Republican party become more radical

about 30% of Americans still not covered, or can't afford it or under insured. I am one of those 30%.

Ceci WolfCat M Hes a Vietnam Vet. Same as Mueller. All these Politicians should be afraid now.

HA HA HA (Song Bird) is in Hell!!!! sold out his Squad to the Vietcong for food!!!!

Yes it was so badass and so was he all his life. got to love the mavirck.

I lean liberal but McCain would have made an excellent leader. If I came down to an extreme leftist like Bernie vs. McCain, i would vote GOP

Probably the best Republican to run for President since HW.

McCain is a war criminal next to Bush and cheney

He seemed like a decent man but he was a real war hawk and generally very conservative. He voted with Trump's position 83% of the time and with the Republican party 87% of the time according to 538. Not someone I'd want to be president regardless of his character. Good character should be a bare minimum qualification.

Yeah but Palin is crazy she was a terrible choice for vp

John McCain= Traitor , Sold out his Men for Food Burning in Hell

Agree with you GreggB. They are principled republicans who chose to do what's right over their party's bidding.

Rofl😂😂

John McCain with the steel chair to McConnell!!! Are you seeing this?!

Imagine each senators having own theme songs 😂

That's gotta be McCain!

Going to stomp a mud hole in him and walk it dry.....RIP

Not a legend. He was a horrible politician who was captured in Vietnam by the north Vietnamese. He apparently isn’t a republican at all. He destroyed the country by voting No. The ACA should of been repealed.

Hall of fame moment for sure. Most others in the party are just boot lickers. Whether it's for McConnell or Trump. McCain maybe have been a republican but he was his own man.

How? He voted for the war in Iraq and wants to go to war with Iran.

Do your research...The Forrestal...1967. Songbird...he is NOT a hero!!!

Kenny Sok a hero for north Vietnam.

Order11110 proof?

Look up The Forrestal 1967...and Songbird...do your research. He was NOT a Hero!!!

mjblue84 Dumbass both of those are completely false. You say “do your research” but you have to be ignorant or blind to ignore the facts

So running his campaign on repealing Obama care and then voting against his decision was the right thing to do? That sounds like dishonesty to me.

@@janettate6290 I think he saw that it worked for some families and decided it was better to help them out then to turn his back on his fellow Americans truly patriotic mann

@@Hades_Orkos he is the best leader we have seen in the world since Ronald Reagan.

Thank to you I will vote red and in person next election :)

Sure you will, good luck

A respected politician across the aisle

I am not disputing that but the callous way in which he handled the middle east is not something we should just forget.

@@CorvoAttano14 maybe not fulfilling ur duty

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I'm sure many other republicans who wished to vote "no" succumbed to Mconnell and the party pressure, and voted yes. John's vote was contrary to what senators usually do, they follow orders of the party rather than their own choice. That's why Mconnell said that.

sadly he supports the nomination of amy coney Barrett

Facts, he must've been so sad, he couldn't join his buddy russian's mole in the White House at doing their masters bidding

Cocaine Mitch