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Every circumstance is different, however, in this case he is not going to get better. In other words, he can't really do his job. Yes, he should resign but I suspect his ego will not allow it.
If he's that close to death, I don't get what difference it makes whether he resigns or not
I keep hearing that John McCain is too ill to go to Washington D.C. to take part in the deliberations over the SCOTUS nominee and vote. Well shouldn't he resign then? If he is unable to discharge his duties for the citizens of Arizona isn't resigning the honorable thing to do? Don't they deserve to have their views represented?
You didn’t seem to have a problem with Grassley not allowing Obama’s Supreme Court pick to come to the floor for a vote but now you have an issue with McCains absence for medical reasons. The deck is already stacked for Trumps pick, it would take a miracle not to get approval.
MCain is not the first Senator who has been too ill to attend sessions in the Senate. There have been many, many others before him.
And that does not mean he hasn't kept up with the goings-on in the Senate chambers in any way. It's very easy to know what's happening there daily now.
There's a half-year left before the session ends, and most of it will be an adjournment from late August until after election day. If there's business to be done in that time, a re-convenement will be called, and the Senators will return for it. McCain can still vote on any bill from Arizona, and his time in his last session is running out daily.
It's no big deal if he stays on now, but if he resigns, then he leaves a last-minute hole in the state's representation that must be filled, and that's a bigger problem for his home state than if he stays on.
I'm finding it fascinating that some of the same people who absolutely vilified McCain ten years ago when he ran for President are now his staunchest supporters.
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