Maybe I'm wrong here, but the way he's been speaking about the new health care bill, “Need to take our time”, “Won't pass the Senate”, etc., makes him sound like a closet Obamacare supporter.
He has all the criticisms of the new bill and offers no solutions.
Here's a quote from the Senator during his 2014 campaign; "We would repeal Obamacare and replace it entirely with many reforms for our health care program."
You are not wrong! Cotton is the worst politician I have ever seen. Tagged as a great conservative mind it’s a darn shame the guy does not have any political expertise at all.
Perhaps he could review a few thousand threads here at FR and learn what his job really entails.
There is a theory that the rollout of Obamacare 2.0 means it wasn’t really meant to pass, either.
Meanwhile, the best opportunity for Trump to get anything through Congress is intentionally frittered away. Even the tax cuts are looking now to be pushed into 2018, when they could well be stalled for an election in which the GOP quite likely will lose the House.