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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Is this really a good bill?"
President Toot Toot The Truckdriver 3/24/17
No. It's a piece of shit, you dunderhead:
Shortly after House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) unveiled the Republican health-care plan on March 6, President Trump sat in the Oval Office and queried his advisers: Is this really a good bill?
And over the next 18 days, until the bill collapsed in the House on Friday afternoon in a humiliating defeat the sharpest rebuke yet of Trumps young presidency and his negotiating skills the question continued to nag at the president.
Even as he thrust himself and the trappings of his office into selling the health-care bill, Trump peppered his aides again and again with the same concern, usually after watching cable news reports chronicling the setbacks, according to two of his advisers: Is this really a good bill?
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-closer-the-inside-story-of-how-trump-tried--and-failed--to-make-a-deal-on-health-care/2017/03/24/3e6353d6-0fdc-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumpdeal-735pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.65e8650846c9
And over the next 18 days, until the bill collapsed in the House on Friday afternoon in a humiliating defeat the sharpest rebuke yet of Trumps young presidency and his negotiating skills the question continued to nag at the president.
Even as he thrust himself and the trappings of his office into selling the health-care bill, Trump peppered his aides again and again with the same concern, usually after watching cable news reports chronicling the setbacks, according to two of his advisers: Is this really a good bill?
...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-closer-the-inside-story-of-how-trump-tried--and-failed--to-make-a-deal-on-health-care/2017/03/24/3e6353d6-0fdc-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumpdeal-735pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.65e8650846c9
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"Is this really a good bill?" (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2017
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dalton99a
(81,534 posts)1. The greatest businessman God ever created wouldn't know a good deal from a hole in the ground
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)2. That's President Toot The Truck Driver you're talking about.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)3. Can't put anything past Donald. And we thought Dubya was dumb.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)4. Why didn't he read it?
God what an embarrassment.