Sen. John McCain’s dramatic role in the latest failed effort to repeal Obamacare harkens back to a moment in 2010 when former President Barack Obama slammed the Arizona Republican for attempting to reach across the aisle.
McCain, who cast the dramatic vote that sunk Senate Republicans latest effort to repeal Obamacare in the wee hours of the morning Friday, said that he opposed the bill because he wasn’t happy with the process.
He was incensed by the lack of hearings, back-door meetings and the rush to a vote. The language used by McCain in 2017 is eerily similar to what he said to Obama in 2010.
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“Eight times you said that negotiations on health care reform would be conducted with the C-SPAN cameras,” McCain said in 2010. “It [Obamacare] was produced behind closed doors, it was produced with unsavory, I say that with respect, dealmaking.”
Obama did not take kindly to McCain’s critiques. “Let me make this point, John, because we’re not campaigning anymore. The election’s over,” he told McCain at the time.
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