By Voting No on Graham-Cassidy - John McCain is Showing Heroic Courage and is Fighting for His Country
John McCain is trying to save the United States of America by voting against passage of the Graham- Cassidy healthcare bill. He is fighting to ensure that the institution of the Senate remains a strong equal branch of the United States of America that shares power with and is not subservient to the President of the United States. The system of separation of powers was embedded in the United States Constitution to ensure that it’s people were protected from tyrannical rule. However today McCain’s political party, the Republicans, is not interested in protecting the people. George Washington is quoted as saying that,
“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely during time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” (1) George Washington first President of the United States of America
The election of Donald Trump has validated George Washington’s prophecy. Trump and a significant number of Republicans men and women are” “… cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled people “who by various means have subverted the power of the people to grab the “reins of government”. In the Senate Mitch McConnell, and others are in the process of destroying … the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion”. (1)
Mitch McConnell and Republicans are pulling every shady stunt in the world to repeal Obamacare and why? They claim to be doing so because of a promise made to their voters. That is not true, what voter would want to replace Obamacare with a bill that will hurt so many people. Many who supported repeal and replace did so because they thought that the slogan repeal and replace ended with the word “something better”. That is “repeal and replace with something better” not with something that would hurt millions of people. The shady deals that Mitch McConnell is making to repeal Obamacare are not being cut because these Republicans care about the American people or the Constitution of the United States of America.
… that is why John McCain will go down in history as a legitimate hero. As a man who had the backbone to stand up to his own party, Republicans, men and women who have come to define themselves as winners because they have killed healthcare for millions of people.
And that is why John McCain will go down in history as a legitimate hero. As a man who had the backbone to stand up to his own political party, Republicans, men and women who have come define themselves as winners because they have killed healthcare for millions of people. McCain is fighting for the institution of the Senate against men and women who seem to have no problem anointing Donald Trump as King. McCain knows that by supporting shady repeal, replace healthcare bills, the current Senate, composed of “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men” will become an insignificant body in the Trump kingdom.
References
1. Washington, George. Letter to Friends and Fellow Citzens. 1976.