Editors at Investor’s Business Daily take aim at Arizona Sen. John McCain’s response to the latest health care reform proposal to emerge from his Senate colleagues.
We checked, and we couldn’t find Sen. John McCain telling voters who reelected him in 2016 that he’d repeal ObamaCare, but only if the Senate followed all the proper “procedures.” But that’s his excuse now for killing what is likely the last chance to get rid of this law.
After signaling that he could support the latest ObamaCare repeal-and-replace effort authored by Sens. Bill Cassidy and Lindsay Graham, McCain issued a statement saying that “health care reform legislation ought to be the product of regular order in the Senate.”
This is, he says, “the only way we might achieve bipartisan consensus on lasting reform, without which a policy that effects one-fifth of our economy and every single American family will be subject to reversal with every change of administration and congressional majority.”
McCain’s own actions prove that he’s wrong.
Remember, ObamaCare itself was hardly enacted using “regular order.” The Senate passed the bill using the exact same technique that Republicans have been trying to use to repeal it — called reconciliation — so they could get the bill approved without worrying about a Republican filibuster. Not one Republican voted for ObamaCare.
So, by McCain’s reasoning, ObamaCare itself should be “subject to reversal.”
But by insisting that Republicans repeal ObamaCare using “regular order,” McCain is actually enshrining ObamaCare as the law of the land forever. As a result, ObamaCare is not “subject to reversal” and never will be.
Good job, John.
