There's no other way to read comments from Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert and Donald Trump Monday about Sen. John McCain than to say this: Republicans apparently can't get rid of a man who signed up to give his life for this country and is now battling brain cancer fast enough.
Whatever one might think about Sen. McCain's politics, he's spent his entire life in service to this country, but Gohmert wants a recall vote so he can be replaced with a robot Republican who will vote in favor of the Graham-Cassidy healthcare repeal. (Helpful side note: Recalls of federal elected officials have never been allowed by the courts. You’d think a member of Congress might know this.) McCain announced Friday that he could not "in good conscience" vote for the GOP's rushed hatchet job on the Affordable Care Act. Roll Call writes:
Rep. Louie Gohmert believes Arizona Sen. John McCain should be recalled while he battles brain cancer and so that the GOP can replace him with someone who will support the party's latest effort to repeal the 2010 health care law.
“Nothing inhibits recovery from cancer like stress,” the Texas Republican told “Fox & Friends” on Monday morning. “I think Arizona could help him, and us. Recall him, let him fight successfully this terrible cancer, and let’s get someone in here who will keep the word he gave last year.”
Gohmert's comments came amid McCain's announcement that his doctors had given him a "very poor prognosis."
Trump, perhaps not mentally agile enough to at least feign concern for McCain, went ahead and threw him under the bus in a Monday radio interview with the Alabama-based "Rick & Bubba Show."
"You can call it what you want, but that's the only reason we don't have it, because of John McCain," Trump said of multiple GOP attempts to repeal the ACA. [...]
"Without John McCain, we already have the health care," Trump said on the radio program.
Wow. This is apparently acceptable behavior now—pondering aloud that if they could just get the guy with cancer out of the way, they could pass a truly shitty piece of legislation that will strip health care from millions and do untold more damage to our healthcare system. It's jaw dropping.