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John McCain After 22 Years in DC, on Health Care - "It is Time We Started Back at The Beginning!"
At a town-hall just a couple weeks ago in Phoenix, after "one man angrily pointed at him and asked the senator why he deserves a better health care plan than him."
Senator McCain said: "I'm trying to get it for you," McCain told him. "We'll do it for you. We'll make it affordable and available to you."
Now in North Carolina John McCain says "It's time we started back at the beginning," (McCain of Arizona told medical professionals at Carolina's Medical Center)
What gives?
Do we start over from mid-August when you were working on it, or 22 years ago when you first went to Washington DC as a Senator? How far back does the reset button take us, why didn't you do it for us under George W. Bush?
The man whose family has had government paid for socialized medical care from the US Navy Medical Corps for three (3) generations (his father and grandfather were admirals) says he has been trying to 'get it for you'. If you believe that you would be an easy sucker for those guys at the State Fair. At least you know if the carnival barkers mislead you they don't have taxpayer funded health care, 7 houses, and they don't do sleepovers with Colonel Qaddafi in Libya at government expense.
Republican leader Mitch McConnell was with McCain and added: "Our goal ought not to be to have the cheapest health care in the world," no Senator, what we are trying for is health care that 'is available and affordable', even your buddy John McCain knows that point.
At least McCain didn't send a letter to the Russian envoy to the UN promising the Russian envoy that he, John McCain, was going to get him 'affordable and available' health care.
Senator McCain said: "I'm trying to get it for you," McCain told him. "We'll do it for you. We'll make it affordable and available to you."
Now in North Carolina John McCain says "It's time we started back at the beginning," (McCain of Arizona told medical professionals at Carolina's Medical Center)
What gives?
Do we start over from mid-August when you were working on it, or 22 years ago when you first went to Washington DC as a Senator? How far back does the reset button take us, why didn't you do it for us under George W. Bush?
The man whose family has had government paid for socialized medical care from the US Navy Medical Corps for three (3) generations (his father and grandfather were admirals) says he has been trying to 'get it for you'. If you believe that you would be an easy sucker for those guys at the State Fair. At least you know if the carnival barkers mislead you they don't have taxpayer funded health care, 7 houses, and they don't do sleepovers with Colonel Qaddafi in Libya at government expense.
Republican leader Mitch McConnell was with McCain and added: "Our goal ought not to be to have the cheapest health care in the world," no Senator, what we are trying for is health care that 'is available and affordable', even your buddy John McCain knows that point.
At least McCain didn't send a letter to the Russian envoy to the UN promising the Russian envoy that he, John McCain, was going to get him 'affordable and available' health care.
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Thanks for putting those puzzling pieces next to each other, NCD. Helps us see the picture of a faux maverick more clearly.
September 1, 2009 8:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
But remember, he's a "maverick." That should answer every single question that you have about this issue. Right? R I G H T ? Well, if not, then maybe you aren't a real AMURICAN!
He's been working for us for 22 years! He's gonna make people famous who aren't doing a good job! He picked the best doggone vice presidential candidate in history!
Wait -- is this a comic book, or the United States of America? Ask John McCain.
September 1, 2009 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's a comic book.
September 1, 2009 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Are you sure it's not a cook-book?
Toad - In - The - Hole:
Take a piece of bread, and pull a quarter-sized piece out of the center. Butter both sides of it, and place it in a frying pan with the heat turned to high-medium. Once the bread starts to toast nicely, break an egg (oh, so carefully) into the hole. Once it has cooked gently for a few minutes, put your spatula VERY QUICKLY under the toast and egg and flip with a wanton flair, so that it is done with what could be described as aplomb! At this point it is very important to apply salt and pepper, and pay extreme attention -- two minutes at the most after flippage, it is time to serve. Take that spatula and lift your heaving Toad in The Hole up triumphantly, and place it on a plate right next to the bacon and stir-fried potatoes (separate recipe available), and tuck in!
But if it's just a comic book, well, let your stomach make all kinds of hungry noises!
September 1, 2009 10:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yumm! Miguel demonstrates Pavlovian response...
September 1, 2009 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait a tic. McCain's not a real 'murican? Lemme get m'gun...
September 2, 2009 10:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
Like most conservatives he wants to 'preserve' what we have...or roll things back to the way they were in, let's say, the 19th century. Trying to preserve the status quo and blunt progress is a bedrock principle of 'conservatism'. So he wants to start again at the beginning and scrap the whole thing at that point...
September 1, 2009 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran --- heh, heh, heh!
You gotta admit- he is quite a wit! Oh, well. He'd half-way there!
September 1, 2009 10:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, the "beginning" is no more than -max- six thousand years. That's how old the earth is according to the creationistista's of the right wing Bush/McCain/Palin Base.
Given another six thousand years McCain might get around to doing something...'bout what he said........or maybe not. (remember when he said the economy was strong on Monday, and on Friday he was gonna save it from meltdown?)
September 1, 2009 10:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
(stealing a line from Steve Martin in remarks he made about Ronald Reagan)
John McCain wants to make America what it once was...a vast wasteland covered by a mile thick sheet of ice.
September 1, 2009 10:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ice cold about describes McCain's conscience when it comes to helping those in society who did not marry a woman worth $100 million, or who were not lucky enough to spring from a line of admirals.
September 2, 2009 12:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Did Adam and Eve have single-payer? Did it cover dinosaur bites?
September 2, 2009 9:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
"It's time we started back at the beginning," (????) What beginning? The Stone Age?
September 2, 2009 6:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Let's all go back to a simpler time, when McCain was an angry alcholic and Bush was a pot smoking coke-head, both being supported and receiving health care by a socialist government system. Good times!
September 2, 2009 10:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain reminds me of one of those students in school who hasn't read the assignment, hasn't done the homework and hasn't even been paying attention in class.
When cornered to answer a question by the teacher he just blows it out his ass with some meaningless bullshit to pretend he knows something.
In reality neither McCain nor the GOP know, care or will ever do anything about health care in America.
September 2, 2009 12:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay, I agree with McCain. Let's start over. Drop the public-option along with any notions of bipartisan reform. Enact a single-payer solution over as many GOP political dead bodies as is necessary. Wow, McCain has a good idea for once.
September 2, 2009 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink