Never mind
House Republican leaders abruptly pulled a rewrite of the nation’s health-care system from consideration on Friday, a dramatic acknowledgment that they were unable to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
“We just pulled it,” President Trump told The Washington Post in a telephone interview.
The decision came a day after Trump delivered an ultimatum to lawmakers — and represented multiple failures for the new president and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.).
Good.
In the interview, Trump deflected any responsibility for the setback and blamed Democrats instead.
“We couldn’t get one Democratic vote and we were a little bit shy, very little, but it was still a little bit shy so we pulled it,” he said.
I should hope not. Democrats don’t want to do away with universal health insurance, so it’s stupid to reproach them for not voting for doing away with it.
Trump said he had no problem waiting for Democrats to seek cooperation with Republicans on health-care.
“I never said I was going to repeal and replace in the first 61 days,” he said.
In fact, Trump said repeatedly as a candidate and before his inauguration that he would work to repeal the ACA on his first day in office. And congressional Republicans have spent the last seven years campaigning to undo the law.
Well yeah he said on his first day. But that’s not the first 61 days! Totally different.
The dramatic decision stunned legislators who have spent the last several years crafting proposals to repeal former president Barack Obama’s top domestic policy victory. Some were near tears exiting a meeting where Ryan announced his decision.
Awwwwwwww. Frustrated in their burning desire to yank health care insurance away from poor people.
Trump had personally lobbied 120 lawmakers, either in person or on the phone, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters on Friday.
The president had “left everything on the field,” Spicer said.
But he failed. He failed. He’s a loser. LOSER.
The democrats and apparently enough republicans would like to keep their jobs.
How many Republicans now wish Clinton had won, so they could keep on being belligerent obstructionists without any real responsibilities to justify their salaries?
Insane troll logic: your political opponents should vote with you to destroy a program that they created.
They don’t know how to do anything except be judgmental about anyone who is not like them, and to obstruct every thing else. They cannot govern.
Sad.
Now I want Trump out of there. How much longer do we need to wait?
I love the way they seem to think he’s been working his socks off over anything.
Re ‘Insane troll logic: your political opponents should vote with you to destroy a program that they created…’
That.
Note also: his _minority_ opponents. In a legislative body with _two_. It’s kinda… hilarious, coming from many other places in the world where, let’s face it, it’s a mite more complicated. Yes, his awful bill failed, and, somehow, it’s the _minority_’s fault.
Donnie, I know you’ll always just tune out criticism, but anyway: your bill was bad. Really, incredibly, awfully bad. Would have killed people bad. Would have bankrupted people bad. Let’s got back to the damned middle ages again when we just barely started climbing out bad. The moderates knew they couldn’t go there and survive another election. That the extremists–and let’s face it, _your_ extremists–also wouldn’t support it because they didn’t think it would kill _enough_ people is really just bonus comedy, at this point.
I’d almost ask you to resign… but I’m not.
… only because I think I’d prefer to see you impeached.