Hell, I think I need to call in a professional to fully deconstruct Trump's TrumpCare meltdown

[Miles Archer]

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Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!
7:17 PM - 17 Jul 2017

****OKAY, LET'S BREAK THIS DOWN, SHALL WE?****

1). "Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now"

BUT...I thought the plan that had you sitting on ready with "your pen in hand" was so bigly yooge and beautiful, and you were basking in the glow of people begging you to stop winning so much! WHAT HAPPENED?

2). "work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate."

BUT...that somehow implies that everything in the McConnell double secret behind doors plan was shit (it was), and that there's nothing worth salvaging (there's not), and that you might have had your head up your ass during the whole process (you did), playing golf (you did), while McConnell tried every trick in the book to bully 50 Republicans into voting yes (he did), but then two of them bailed, which means you'd need everyone left plus Pence (they did), but then McCain needed medical care (the kind that only Senators would receive after TrumpCare (they would), and then you had two MORE Republicans bail (they did), and all of this legendary art of the deal shit happened while you were stuffing your bloated face with french fries at the U.S. Women's Open (you did)?



3). "Dems will join in!"

BUT...Dems will not join in to kill Medicaid (they won't), Dems will not join in to wipe away pre-existing conditions protections (they won't), Dems will not join in to kick over 20 million people off of healthcare (they won't), Dems will not join in to take all of the money that comes from cutting fucking EVERYTHING and hand it over to the Mercers (they won't). Republicans...especially Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and the Freedom Caucus...only want a MORE SEVERE version of the legislation that will never make it to your desk.

I think that about sums it up.

Link to tweet

[flor-de-jasmim]

1. I am so sick of them playing chicken with Democrats - "The Democrats will help!"

This reeks of acknowledgment that Democrats DO care about people (Democrats won't let the Republicans take the country fully over the cliff, when all is said and done). Republicans, on the other hand, just don't care. Can't say more until I stop frothing at the mouth over the hypocrisy, mean-spiritedness, inhumanity, etc.....

[Demsrule86]

3. Solomon's two women fighting over a baby story...the real Mother (Democrats in my morality play)

refused to allow Solomon to split the baby in half with a sword, while the bad Mother said go ahead who gives two shits (Republicans in my morality play). The GOP has done that repeatedly, but not this time.

[DetlefK]

2. He's trying to bully the Democrats into a "better" deal.

If businessman Trump doesn't get the deal he likes, he walks away and takes his money elsewhere.

President Trump cannot walk away from healthcare. So he's trying to strongarm the Democrats into accepting any deal he would put forth.

He doesn't realize that this time it's the Democrats who can just walk away and take their votes elsewhere. HE needs that deal, not the Democrats.

[fmdaddio]

4. Money

One correction, his money is in most cases someone else's money. That's how drump deals.

[Bromwell]

5. Great post. Does the winning ever stop!

[Cryptoad]

6. If Drumph had not been born rich,,,,

,,,, he would be living under a bridge in NJ today!

[NewJeffCT]

7. I thought Trump was the master dealmaker?

shouldn't he have called a few wavering Republics to the White House and made a deal with them to get their votes? Or, could it be that Republics don't trust him, either?