93% chance McCin will prove to be the craven ass kiss he has been for twenty years and cave to the greedy heartless troglodytes of the far right.

inevitable. now to endure the Twitter gloating of the Worst Person on Earth.

McCain's legacy is secured. he was never anything but self-serving hot air.

I thought that McCain would vote no to repeal without a replace.

McCain was always an opportunist, a fraud, and a sadistic scumbag who has never missed a chance to kick the less fortunate when they're down. The 2008 campaign should have settled the character question permanently.

It's incredible that this country hasn't choked to death on its own bullshit.

They're not actually voting to repeal or not repeal, they're just voting on whether they should debate repealing it or not.

Christ, no wonder young'ens (i.e., anyone under 50) find government so boring.

"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy"

@5: that fact won't stop President Asshole from crowing about it and taking credit where none is due.

What a perfect illustration of the baby boomer generation.

John McCain just had his Sophie's Choice moment & gave both kids to the Nazis.

--Spicen Capwell

"I got mine, the rest of you can go fuck yourselves!"

-John McCain

What I wouldn't give to be left alone in a room with either McCain or McConnell, and me armed with a pineapple. Or a cactus.

Well, thanks for trying, John McCain's blood clot.

@5:

Nor will it deter the mouth-breathers who follow him like lemmings over a cliff from declaring "VICTORY!", because they don't understand the process any better themselves.

The good news of course is that McConnell has won a Pyrrhic victory at-best, because now that he's opened the bill up to a floor debate, not only can amendments be introduced (and I expect to see a lot of those coming from both sides of the aisle), but now he needs 60 votes for passage, and that is simply never going to happen. He might get a bit of mileage out of the 50 "nays" from the Democrats, but I imagine there will still be a few of the more sensible members of the GOP who also refuse to stick their necks out for either McConnell or IL DOUCHE.

Basically, it's just going to be a repeat of the previous vote, because, every concession made to appease one faction of the GOP caucus will be anathema to the other side, and they've already proven that, not only are they unwilling to compromise with the Democrats, but they won't compromise with each other.

@12, true. The Democrats aren't a part of this argument; it's completely within the Republican party.

@5, THANK YOU, the lame repubs just voted to keep voting, essentially; there is no Bill at this point,,,

Fvck these chvmps

I used to think highly of John McCain, that he was one of the few Republicans remaining with some sense of decency. So much of undoing the damage to your legacy that 2008 caused, Senator.

@8, 11: Ha!

so much for*