I made a terrible mistake yesterday. You see, ever since Donald Trump became a viable presidential candidate, I keep finding myself hoping—no, hoping doesn't go far enough—believing that we've finally come to the time when someone in the Republican Party stands up and does the right thing. I keep believing that any moment now a conscience will sprout up on Paul Ryan, or Dean Heller, or yes, John McCain, and we will be saved from the terrible destruction the GOP is attempting to level on the American health-care system. And time after time, these people make the heartless and irresponsible decision. It's Lucy with the football, and I'm Charlie Brown.

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So yesterday I wrote that John McCain was returning for the vote to move the health-care repeal forward, and in that article, I pleaded with McCain to make this a heroic return. To be the savior who rides in and, having had his eyes opened by his own recent health issues, stops his hard-hearted colleagues from putting millions of American lives at risk by taking away their health care.

He decidedly did not. Not only did John McCain vote to allow the bill to move to the floor, he had the gall to give a speech claiming that he would not be voting for the bill in its current form, but rather that he just wanted to allow the process to continue. He got fiery about it.

Now this is already bullshit logic. Days ago, McCain said he wanted to start over and have a bipartisan health-care solution. And now, when all he had to do to choose the right path was lie in a hospital bed, instead he flew across the country to keep this unpopular dog turd of a bill alive with the qualifier that he was not voting for the bill as is, he was just voting for the process. Only problem with that? SIX HOURS LATER, HE VOTED FOR THE DAMN BILL! (Note: The bill did fail and debate will continue this week.)

This is as if, in A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge had met all those ghosts and confronted his own mortality and everything, only to come back to the present and kick Tiny Tim's crutch out from under his tiny little arm. The lesson here, as always, is that Drew Magary was right. John McCain is "the perfect American lie."

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