Sen. John McCain returned to the Senate today for the first time following news that doctors found a brain tumor while performing surgery to remove a blood clot from his eye.
McCain received good wishes from across the political spectrum, including tweets from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. And on Tuesday, when he returned to the Senate floor, he was met with a rousing ovation from his colleagues before voting yes on a motion to proceed with debate on the Senate health care bill, a motion that passed thanks to a tie-breaking vote by Vice President Mike Pence.
Sen. John McCain receives rousing ovation as he returns to Senate following announcement last week he has brain cancer. pic.twitter.com/7LwhCIJ30W
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 25, 2017
#breaking Sen John McCain: I stand here today looking a little worse for wear..my service here is the most important job I've had in my life https://t.co/CVtBQH1N3a
— David Muir (@DavidMuir) July 25, 2017
McCain’s return was expected, as was his vote to move to proceed with the BCRA, which inspired David Corn of Mother Jones to tweet Monday night:
Will cancer-stricken @SenJohnMcCain help a draft-dodger who called him a loser take health care from millions? Then this will be his legacy.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) July 25, 2017
Oh well, there goes McCain’s status as war hero. There were quite a few begrudgingly supportive tweets out there, like this one from the New York Times Nicholas Kristof, which pretty much set the template for those trying to appear objective:
I GREATLY admire John McCain. But I'm disappointed that as he benefits from first-rate health care, he votes to deprive others of insurance.
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) July 25, 2017
Of course, not everyone felt compelled as Kristof did to add that first bit about admiring McCain.
https://twitter.com/aegies/status/889923999555358721
https://twitter.com/jesseberney/status/889923577906114561
https://twitter.com/StaceGots/status/889924914647633920
Fuck John McCain tbh and fuck a standing ovation for him eagerly voting to take away insurance from millions. ??
— Kevin Allred (@KevinAllred) July 25, 2017
John McCain deserves his legacy to be denying the same health care that is keeping him alive to tens of millions of Americans. #shame
— Stephen Miles (@SPMiles42) July 25, 2017
In the movies, John McCain hauls himself from his sickbed, delivers the big speech, then votes No. This ain’t the movies.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) July 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/sarahmseltzer/status/889923561825198083
https://twitter.com/sarahmseltzer/status/889923970438397957
John McCain is not "pro-life."
— Sarah Marian Seltzer (@sarahmseltzer) July 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/MarisaKabas/status/889923718243389441
https://twitter.com/Shakestweetz/status/889924230082592768
i would hope that everyone’s learned to stop fetishizing john mccain but of course no one has https://t.co/fPfvntdtJT
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) July 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/MattSaccaro/status/889925363392016384
https://twitter.com/jpegjoshua/status/889923730453012480
https://twitter.com/LevNovak/status/889923907679121409
John McCain gets a standing-O for voting to take away millions of people's healthcare. Senate Republicans are moral cowards.
— California Democratic Party (@CA_Dem) July 25, 2017
John McCain is a fucking coward, and history will remember him as a fucking coward. one of the most vile, selfish acts in modern US history.
— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) July 25, 2017
John McCain can—and should—go fuck himself.
— ?Imani Gandied Yams? (@AngryBlackLady) July 25, 2017
I no longer care about John McCain's health. Just as he doesn't about ours.
— Chrissa ? (@chrissahardy) July 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/17days/status/889924984243728385
Cancer-stricken John McCain is such a maverick, working to bring death to more people by voting to take away the healthcare of millions.
— Jay Jaffe (@jay_jaffe) July 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/MattSaccaro/status/889924286902923265
The world just lost all respect for John McCain. Make that true. Make him know it. Shame on him.
— Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab (@saragoldrickrab) July 25, 2017
Now that we know the account of the spokesperson for the entire world, posts will likely be a lot shorter.
John McCain doesn't deserve a standing ovation. His legacy is over. #SaveACA
— Sowmya Krishnamurthy (@SowmyaK) July 25, 2017
If John McCain has to die, he'a gonna take countless poor and sick people with him. That's what a hero does.
— Adam Feldman (@FeldmanAdam) July 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/dangillmor/status/889924670631407616
I'm truly surprised that a warmonger like John McCain voted to not care about other people's lives
— Carli Velocci (@velocciraptor) July 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/CiCiAdams_/status/889925124585029632
Honestly, not even Lex Luthor would crawl his ass out of his cancer bed to pull the shit John McCain did. This is pure evil at its finest
— rachel leishman (@RachelLeishman) July 25, 2017
John McCain crawled out of his death bed to sentence 22 million Americans to death.
— Mike Monteiro? (@monteiro) July 25, 2017
Well, at least someone knows exactly how many people will die if Obamacare is repealed and replaced with something else. Reality check, please?
https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/889934143605399553
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Update:
Here’s a short video clip to prove that McCain didn’t have to log on to social media to see the lack of class that his return inspired.
WATCH: "Are you going to die and leave us with this legacy?" woman yells at Sen. McCain after his return to Senate for key procedural vote. pic.twitter.com/MQ3GPyrGJF
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) July 25, 2017
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