Trump Becomes Ensnared in Fiery G.O.P. Civil War

[DonViejo]

By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMANMARCH 25, 2017

WASHINGTON — President Trump ignites a lot of fights, but the biggest defeat in his short time in the White House was the result of a long-running Republican civil war that had already humbled a generation of party leaders before him.

A precedent-flouting president who believes that Washington’s usual rules and consequences of politics do not apply to him, Mr. Trump now finds himself shackled by them.

In stopping the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, the Republican Party’s professed priority for the last seven years, the rebellious far right wing of his party out-rebelled Mr. Trump, and won a major victory on Friday over the party establishment that he now leads.

Like every other Republican leader who has tried to rule a fissured and fractious party, Mr. Trump faces a wrenching choice: retrenchment or realignment. Does he cede power to the anti-establishment wing of his party? Or does he seek other pathways to successful governing by throwing away the partisan playbook and courting a coalition with the Democrats he has improbably blamed for his party’s shortcomings?

“It’s really a problem in our own party, and that’s something he’ll need to deal with moving forward,” said Representative Tom Cole, a moderate Republican from Oklahoma who is part of the center-right Tuesday Group, which stuck with Mr. Trump in the health care fight and earned the president’s praise in the hours after the bill’s defeat.

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

[Beartracks]

2. Dang, if Trumpcare was supported by the CENTER-right Republicans...

... wtf are the far-right Republicans wanting??

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[Warpy]

3. I said last night that this just doesn't make any sense at all

and I think the author had to reach way up his ass to find it.

Since it didn't come to a vote, we have to guess at who's who, but I'd hazard a guess that it was mostly bedrock Republicans who held town halls in their bedrock red states and got chewed up and spit out by angry constituents who all said the ACA wasn't a great plan but it was a hell of a lot better than any alternatives proposed by the party. Only Republicans more afraid of their constituents than lobbyists would have voted to keep it, and I think there were quite a few of those.

Yes, there's always a war going on but it's in all parties, including our own, between the stodgy go-along-to-get-alongs and the firebrands who want to change something.

However, blaming Dolt45's defeat on the far right? Not buying that for a New York second.

[Phoenix61]

4. I'm thinking something along the lines of

Soylent Green for the masses.

[SharonAnn]

5. Yes, that's what I think, too.

Eventually they'll find out that they have killed all the native workers and removed or blocked all the immigrants, and they'll starve. it'll take a while, though.