On the floor of the Senate, early in the morning of July 28, Senator John McCain was more of a show-boat than I think is seemly. However, he did, by my estimation, the right thing when he voted against the Republican Health Care Bill … the so-called skinny version of Obamacare repeal.
Earlier in the week he voted to go ahead with the process to bring the Senate bill to the floor. Immediately after his vote, he railed against the process the Senate was engaging in. That behavior annoyed me and I wrote him an e-mail telling him so…which email I posted in this blog.
At “crunch time,” when a ‘Yes’ would have carried the Republican “skinny repeal,” he voted ‘No.’ I was overjoyed to see that, and I wrote him another email, referring to the first and thanking him for voting the way he did.
With help from a friend, I realized that without the ‘No’ votes of two other Republican Senators ( Murkowski and Collins ), his vote would have been irrelevant. I wrote ‘thank you’ emails to each of them, as well. All three follow.
“Senator Murkowski,
I am not in your state, or even your part of the country, but I am immensely grateful for your continuous stance against the Republican Health Care Bill ( or is it bills? ). What you did is courageous, required chutzpah, and is worthy of some distinction. It gives me some ( not a lot, but some is a start ) hope that our Congress and out (sic) country can climb out of this partisan morass we're in. Everybody's job seems only to be that nobody else can get their job done and your stance seems to have put the country and its needs ahead of that infantile agenda. I am grateful.
Walter Jost
Obl SB
Check out my shared blog at www.inkfounta.in”
“Senator Collins,
I am not in your state, or even your part of the country, but I am immensely grateful for your continuous stance against the Republican Health Care Bill ( or is it bills? ). What you did required chutzpah, is courageous, and deserves distinction. It gives me some ( not a lot, but some is a beginning ) hope that our Congress and out (sic) country can climb out of this partisan morass we're in. Everybody's job seems only to be that nobody else can get their job done and your stance seems to have put the country and its needs ahead of that infantile agenda. I am grateful.
Walter Jost
Obl SB
Check out my shared blog at www.inkfounta.in”
“Dear Senator McCain,
I’ll keep this simple. When I’m wrong, I’m wrong, and I like to think I admit it. I was wrong about you.
Earlier I sent you a scorching email criticizing you for voting to send the Senate Health Care Bill to the floor while speaking to the awfulness of the process for which you voted.
Today I am writing to thank you for voting no on the bill. I am guessing it wasn’t easy, took a large dose of chutzpah, and I thank you.”
When someone does something deserving of appreciation, I believe they should get it.
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