On Saturday, the Senate debated and then voted to further debate the Healthcare Reform Bill.
While there were a few scares here and there during the week, by Saturday afternoon the Senate Democrats said that they had enough votes pledged to guarantee passage for debate. Razor thin on party lines, the likely outcome was said to be 60 yay and 40 nay.
A few hours later the senate debated on and on about whether we should debate Healthcare.
And the final outcome..........
60-39?
What?
This means that someone didn't vote!
When I watched it live, the news anchors didn't even know who the mystery congressman was!
Who was this one congressman who did NOT have an opinion about the intense healthcare debate going on in our country?
Well after a few seconds of hard nose journalism...... I have tracked down this lone senator!
It turn out that it was none other than Sarah Palin's former running mate.......
John McCain
He channeled his inner Maverick and decided not to decide on a healthcare debate.
Fair enough...
I mean, it really didn't matter anyway.
To each his own!
But there is one thing I don't understand. Though nobody said understanding John McCain would be easy.
In my last post I wrote about the 30 senators that voted against the Al Franken Anti-Rape amendment. John McCain included in this list. Out of all the 30 republican senators who took one in the gut for their friends at Halliburton/KBR, John McCain's inclusion in this disappoints me the most. If anyone in Congress could understand the pain and TORTURE that 20-year-old Jamie Leigh Jones went through that night and why we must prevent it at all costs......
I would figure that it would be John McCain?
But I guess not....
So he doesn't vote when it comes to if we should debate reforming our broken healthcare system, yet boldly voted NO loud and clear, when it came to deciding that what happens at Halliburton, Stays at Halliburton. And that women have no rights there.
It is times like these that justify that we picked the better candidate in 2008.
John McCain: Rape at Halliburton..... Sure! Healthcare for Millions....... No Comment!
As I said.......
Nobody said understanding John McCain would be easy....
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