All in keeping with the Trump doctrine: “They didn’t vote for me, so fuck ‘em”.
What tripped the Republicans up was they wanted to repeal first and then use the inevitable public pressure to force Democrats to come to the table and negotiate a replacement. What didn’t help was Trump saying the Republicans would come up with a plan that covers more people AND costs less which is next to…
So Trump getting Mexico to pay for the wall is essentially this:
These statements might be more convincing if he was, say, testifying under oath somehow.
The reason Democrats are having trouble is that we are living in a post-policy, post-idea world. 2016 proved that people are more responsive to propaganda and rhetoric than plans to govern. On one side, you have people that will never trust what you have to say because you don’t have an R next to your name and you…
It doesn’t matter what Trump wants and I’m sure McConnell has said as much to him directly. The President doesn’t control the House or the Senate; his job is to sign whatever McConnell and Ryan give him to sign. And he’ll do it because Trump feels he needs to rack up legitimate achievements for his re-election bid (if…
I would say this is too cynical and stupid for even McConnell but then I remember he once put himself in a position where he filibustered his own bill.
They can only afford to lose two Republicans and this bill is dead. And this isn’t a controversial appointee getting confirmed but millions losing their healthcare. We’ll see what happens when the CBO score gets released but as of now I don’t think it passes.
Can we talk about this masterful trolling from Chuck Schumer?
Worse, Mitch McConnell.
I would never have imagined that Trump’s incompetence and laziness would be this country’s saving grace, but here we are. Because he’s dumb and not generally interested in actually running the country, the damage he is doing is mostly temporary and he doesn’t realize that the GOP is setting him up to bear all the…
