This POS is a first class SOB! He has brain cancer FFS! Give up your goddam senate seat so the governor of your state can appoint a replacement! This prick sonofabitch is clinging to it until death, IGNORING HIS CONSTITUENTS, so that he can continue to throw a monkey wrench into anything Trump wants to do, just because it's Trump, even when Trump is trying to do something that shithead McCain agreed with in the past! Fuck this goddamn scumbag!!

And if you think he's a "hero" because of being a POW, please turn on your brain and think about it. He's the son of an admiral. He had a 5 star room in the Hanoi Hilton, and wasn't EVER tortured! It's all FICTION that was used to promote a "man" who has been an establishment stooge for his entire congressional carreer.

I've hated this POS since the 1990s. He's always there to deliver the crucial vote to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory whenever the republican party is about to do something good. I might actually drive to D.C. someday just to take a big nasty shit on his fucking grave, and I'll stop at a White Castle on the way there from Ohio.

McCain, even in illness, sparks lively, timely debates

WASHINGTON (AP) -- John McCain is not signing off quietly.

As in so much of the senator's extraordinary life, the rebellious Republican is facing this challenging chapter — battling brain cancer — in his own rule-breaking way, stirring up old fights and starting new ones. Rarely has the sickbed been so lively.

McCain is promoting a new book, delivering a counterpunch of ideals contrary to President Donald Trump's running of the White House. McCain's long-distance rejection of CIA director nominee Gina Haspel's history with torture goaded former Vice President Dick Cheney into a fresh debate over waterboarding and other now-banned interrogation techniques. On Friday, friends rallied to defend McCain against a White House official's cruel joke that his positions don't matter because "he's dying anyway."

If this is Washington's long goodbye to a sometimes favorite son, it's also a reemergence of old resentments and political fault lines that continue to split the nation.

Perhaps no one should have expected anything less from the 81-year-old senator, who can be crotchety and cantankerous but is also seen by many, both in and out of politics, as an American hero, flaws and all.

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Friday as McCain "fights for his life, he deserves better — so much better."

"Our children learn from our example," Biden said. "The lingering question is: Whose example will it be? I am certain it will be John's."

Said House Speaker Paul Ryan, "His legacy is so long that John McCain is a hero to us all."

McCain was diagnosed in July with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer. He left Washington in December and few expect him to return. Up-and-down reports of his health shift every few days.

A steady stream of visitors have stopped by the McCain family ranch in Arizona — including Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, on Friday.

Close friend and political ally Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., visited McCain this week, and the two watched an old movie and talked about McCain's imprint on politics.

Graham said he told McCain he will leave behind a long list of Republicans — and Democrats — he has mentored, Graham included.

"Your legacy is the people you affected," Graham said he told his friend. "John McCain's going to have a hell of a legacy."

Not everyone, though, is so keen to listen to McCain these days.

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