[Alberta's Child]

I'll play Devil's advocate here and point out that it's hard to blame any politician for refusing to support a bill that only has the support of about 15% of the American public.

This is why President Trump is hammering on the "sell the plan" part of this. Someone has to get out there and lay out the case for: (1) why it's important to pass this bill, and (2) how much money ordinary Americans are going to save.

Item (2) is a very hard sell, because (as Barack Obama showed) it's easy for a politician to make up sh!t about how much money people are supposedly going to save.

[WVMnteer]

To his credit (or I suppose derision), President Obama sold the hell out of his plan. He lied about what the end results would be but he understood the mechanics of the law backwards and forwards and sold it to his base.

President Trump has sent out a few tweets about how the bill is terrific.

He also took four positions on what the Senate should do in the past 24 hours.