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John McCain ending treatment for brain cancer
dpareja:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/senator-john-mccain-discontinue-medical-treatment-1.4797810
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has decided to end the treatment he has been receiving for his brain cancer.
Mostly I hope he lives long enough to see Trump leave office, because nobody who said that he "prefer[s] people who weren't captured" has any business being at McCain's funeral.
ironbite:
Sadly I doubt he'll survive the month.
Ironbite-but that'll be just long enough to screw up Kavannauh's nomination.
dpareja:
McCain's been a reliable vote for shitty GOP judicial nominees. If someone flips (Collins, maybe) he'll make it into the Senate to push the vote to 50-50 so Pence can break the tie. The Dems need two people to flip (probably Collins and Murkowski). If he dies before Kavanaugh comes to a vote, Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ) will nominate someone posthaste so that the Republicans have 51 votes on the floor again.
EDIT: And of course that assumes that the entire Democratic caucus holds, which I wouldn't count on.
Id82:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/25/politics/john-mccain-obituary/index.html
Wow, I thought he had maybe weeks or a couple of months left. But not immediately.
niam2023:
...that cannot have been pleasant.
He is tortured at the peak of his life, and he dies torturously.
Rest well, John.
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