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Trump turns on his party, blames them for healthcare bill's failure

Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:26 am
Posted by Toddy
Atlanta
Member since Jul 2010
27251 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:26 am
Well at least he's decided to tell the truth here. I guess he realized blaming the Democrats looked absurd given not a single Democratic vote was needed for passage.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is attacking conservative lawmakers after the failure of the Republican bill to replace Obamacare.
On Twitter Sunday, Trump says: "Democrats are smiling in D.C. that the Freedom Caucus, with the help of Club For Growth and Heritage, have saved Planned Parenthood & Ocare!"

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The Freedom Caucus is a hard-right group of House members who were largely responsible for blocking the bill to undo President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. The bill was pulled from the House floor Friday in a humiliating political defeat for the president.

Trump initially focused his blame on Democrats for the failure and predicted a dire future for the current law.

Before the bill was pulled, Trump tweeted at the Freedom Caucus, saying Planned Parenthood funding would continue if they blocked the legislation.




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Posted by joshnorris14
Florida
Member since Jan 2009
46732 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:27 am to
Russians
Posted by Greatest Success
Member since Feb 2017
118 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:32 am to
Read this, from a Republican Senator. If you have the intelligence to understand what he says, and you still think the GOP has any capacity to govern, you are impervious to facts:

Posted by PygmalionEffect
Member since Jul 2012
4834 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:34 am to
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Read this, from a Republican Senator. If you have the intelligence to understand what he says, and you still think the GOP has any capacity to govern, you are impervious to facts:



Evidently, Cotton is one of the more intelligent republicans in Congress.


God that is scary.
Posted by JuiceTerry
Roond the Scheme
Member since Apr 2013
40868 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:34 am to
Trump was behind the GOP 100% on this.
Posted by Antonio Moss
The South
Member since Mar 2006
49321 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:35 am to
Honestly, if you're looking at this from a purely partisan perspective, not passing this bill was great for the GOP. The ACA is a disaster but this bill would have probably made the situation worse. Now, the DNC still owns the mess of the ACA.

I'm sure that's not a big relief for the Middle Class who is getting demolished but nonetheless.
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
73516 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:35 am to
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PygmalionEffect
I guess you decided to finally crawl back onto this board. Thought you made a ban bet?
Posted by Greatest Success
Member since Feb 2017
118 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:38 am to
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Now, the DNC still owns the mess of the ACA.


If the Republicans having control of EVERY element of the government necessary to pass any legislation they want doesn't allow you to admit that this is their failure, YOU are brainwashed beyond any capacity of objectivity or reason. My God, I hope you aren't raising kids.
Posted by Toddy
Atlanta
Member since Jul 2010
27251 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:40 am to
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Honestly, if you're looking at this from a purely partisan perspective, not passing this bill was great for the GOP. The ACA is a disaster but this bill would have probably made the situation worse. Now, the DNC still owns the mess of the ACA.


True it was a shite bill, but voters are going to remember that the GOP promised to repeal and replace for six years and then just gave up on it. This is on the GOP now. They're the ones who have bitched and moaned about this for years.
Posted by SoulGlo
Shinin' Through
Member since Dec 2011
17248 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:40 am to
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if you're looking at this from a purely partisan perspective, not passing this bill was great for the GOP


It was.

Trump can frick it up by going after the HFC and his base instead of keeping focus on 100% Dem opposition.
Posted by texag7
College Station
Member since Apr 2014
41044 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:41 am to
Obamacare will still get repealed.
Posted by Antonio Moss
The South
Member since Mar 2006
49321 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:41 am to
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If the Republicans having control of EVERY element of the government necessary to pass any legislation they want doesn't allow you to admit that this is their failure,


It's falling upward. I specifically stated the perspective was purely partisian.


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YOU are brainwashed beyond any capacity of objectivity or reason.


I'm not a Republican.

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My God, I hope you aren't raising kids.


frick off. My kids, who are elementary school, apparently already have better reading comprehension skills than you.
Posted by EZE Tiger Fan
Member since Jul 2004
55453 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:43 am to
Good to quickly uncover a newbie with no reading comprehension whatsoever.

Moron.

You and the OP are the ones who shouldn't reproduce. Thank god the OP can't.
Posted by Antonio Moss
The South
Member since Mar 2006
49321 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:44 am to
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voters are going to remember that the GOP promised to repeal and replace for six years and then just gave up on it.


True but as premiums and deductibles continue to skyrocket and choice continues to diminish, they'll also remember which party put the actual law in play.


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This is on the GOP now.




I do find it telling how the left has tried to shift responsibility for the ACA since the get go.
Posted by 9th life
birmingham
Member since Sep 2009
7310 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:44 am to
Wrong.

Republicans screamed from the mountaintops for years about the pending catastrophe of the ACA. About the need to repeal and replace. I would say that half those empty suits wouldnt be in congress if not for beating that drum. Now, at the moment of truth they choke the opportunity away and its someone else's fault?

Party of personal accountability indeed.
This post was edited on 3/26/17 at 11:45 am
Posted by Toddy
Atlanta
Member since Jul 2010
27251 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:45 am to
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Obamacare will still get repealed.


Only way this happens if Trump reaches out to Democrats and telsl the Freedom Caucus to frick off. He possibly could get cooperation between the Dems and moderate Republicans to improve what we have now.

IDK if the Dems will work with them though given the way Obama was treated for the past eight years.
Posted by Rover Range
Member since Jun 2014
2768 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:46 am to
Trump... has a party?


Shut the frick up Toddy.
Posted by Greatest Success
Member since Feb 2017
118 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:46 am to
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I'm not a Republican.


Where did I say you are a Republican? You take a shot at my reading comprehension skills, and then post this?

Further proof you have no capacity for objectivity or reason.
Posted by Antonio Moss
The South
Member since Mar 2006
49321 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:47 am to
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Now, at the moment of truth they choke the opportunity away and its someone else's fault?


Man, we really need a remedial reading comprehension course for this board.
Posted by ShortyRob
Member since Oct 2008
82116 posts
Posted on 3/26/17 at 11:49 am to
What's funny to me is that for my entire adult lifetime, democrats have bitched saying Republicans needed to elect someone who steered away from the party protests and more to the middle.

So. Republicans nominated someone who exactly fits that bill and in fact, is left of many issues.

Democratic reaction?

Hitler!!!!!
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