After sinking his party’s hopes of repealing the Affordable Care Act this year with a dramatic thumbs-down, the fate of a tax overhaul may now sit in the hands of the Republican from Arizona. In recent days, Mr. McCain has been fairly tight-lipped about his views on the tax proposal speeding through the Senate, saying he sees some problems with the existing bill but is waiting for a final plan before making a decision.
Asked about what concerned him about the Senate tax bill this week, Mr. McCain replied tersely: “A lot of things.”
Even those who know Mr. McCain best are unsure how he will vote, but if history is any guide, Republicans have reason to worry.
Mr. McCain has voted against big tax cuts before, including two that passed under another Republican president: George W. Bush. In that case, he bucked the majority of his party on the grounds that the 2001 and 2003 cuts overwhelmingly benefited the rich — a widespread criticism of the current Senate legislation and the bill that has already passed the House. Mr. McCain is also a deficit hawk and could find it hard to swallow a tax cut that will add around $1.5 trillion to the federal debt over 10 years.
With their slim majority in the Senate, Republicans can lose no more than two votes, and several others are on the fence.
ht/ all too much
Whatever happens I hope all the levers are pulled to ensure that McCain doesn’t get a state funeral when he’s finally put out of our misery.
Can’t somebody pull a Judge Moore on this guy? Isn’t there anyone who can claim he sexually harassed him/her/it?
He is an professional asshole
Wow, seems like a poor choice of things to take to the grave. Unless of course, you’re a fucking liberal.
He’s been a fuck up his entire life. Why change now.
Isn’t it funny how all these “deficit hawks” suddenly sprout wings in a Trump admin, yet the deficit more than doubled under obeyme? Oh and when was the last budget passed?
He released “Tokyo Rose” statement in Vietnam, and after he votes “no” he’ll release one to the U.S. citizens.
He’ll vote it down just to show everyone how much power he has over them. He’s an idiot egomaniac who doesn’t care one way or another about the tax bill, but rather how he can hold the fate of so many people in the palm of his hand. He’s just out to make sure he gets what HE wants and everyone knows it. He wants to stick a finger in the eye of everyone who ever pissed him off one last time before he shuffles off this earth.
I think it would be entirely appropriate for all the surviving sailors of the USS Forrestal fire to be the first ones to line up in mass numbers to piss on his grave after he assumes room temperature.
F.D.R.?
Can you call an emergency meeting and fast track this war zero?
What a piece of shit.
He’s is just biding his time until he’s the last holdout so as to have maximum press exposure when he sinks the tax deal. He’s going to be a vicious snarling prick right up till he’s loaded in the smelter.
I hope they have no plans to foul Arlington National Cemetery with this vile swine’s remains.
There will be so many Americans pissing on his grave his coffin will float.
So, basically McCain has adopted the stance that “if I’m going, I’m taking everyone else with me.” What a swell guy….
bury him next to Hanoi jane and save us a second trip.
And John Kerry.
“republicans can lose no more than two votes, and several others are on the fence”
tell me how the republicans are any different than the democrats ?
it’s swamp critters versus the rest of us and the swamp is rising.
if only steve irwin was a super hero, Trump might have some help.
but irwins dead, so it’s up to us to be Trumps super hero’s and light up the congressional phone banks and start throwing headlocks on the swamp critters.
May McLame’s days be short.
There I go again, cheering on brain cancer.
What is wrong with me?