Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said today that he didn’t think the late Sen. Ted Kennedy would appreciate that health care reform was passed “on a party line vote.”
McCain slammed the Senate bill because “there has never been a major reform accomplished in the history of this country that wasn’t bipartisan.”
He also said: “Senator Kennedy would appreciate the outcome. I don’t think he would appreciate it on a party line vote.”
All of the negotiations and efforts that I made with him, we never engaged in this kind of unsavory process of offering people different deals, which in the end cost people from other states lots of money and puts burdens on them.
Here’s the full clip:
(h/t Greg Sargent.)
