Peggy Noonan says: "Reach Across the Aisle, Mr. PresidentFor health-care reform to succeed" ???

Wall Street Journal ^ | 3-17-17 | Peggy Noonan

[PK1991]

"The president should confound expectations, pivot, and turn to the Democrats for a bipartisan deal. Here is the tradition. If you are Franklin Roosevelt in 1935 and you want to create Social Security—an act that affects Americans very personally—you get the other party in on it. You need them co-owning it, invested in it. You want the American people saying, “Congress did this,” not “the Democrats did this,” because if they say the latter the reform will always divide. FDR got 81 Republicans to vote for it in the House, and 284 Democrats. The same with Medicare in 1965: Lyndon Johnson did all he could to get the GOP on board. A majority of House Republicans supported it."

[PK1991]

Peggy Noonan is defying convention (or logic) and recommending Trump reach across the aisle into the snarling teeth of the Democrats and negotiate with the Democrats on RINOCare. Apparently Peggy thinks even a good bill cannot succeed without Democrat support. In my opinion no bill but full ObamaCare bailout would gain democratic support. Democrats won't even support a trillion dollar infrastructure plan which is their bread and butter because it comes from Trump. As Jim Jordan and Rand Paul say just repeal ObamaCare with a two year sunset and then take the time to craft a solid bill and ditch RINOCare.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Ahhh, the famous Peggy Noonan reach-around.

[rktman]

Uh, Peg. Shut up. How about both sides of the aisle reach out to the President instead of all the back stabbing and damaging rhetoric. That just might include finding the leakers and shutting them down.

[goodnesswins]

Democrats are anti American. Time to figure that out, Miss Peggy

[Political Junkie Too]

How come I never read Maureen Dowd advising Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi to reach across the aisle for health care to succeed?

How come it's always Republicans giving in to Democrats?

-PJ

[Kalamata]

Oh yes, let’s do like McTraitor does. Reach around the aisle.....but now smack them upside the head. Then call Security/Police and cart them off.

[cpforlife.org]

Peggy,

Shut up and go away. Please.

[7thson]

Peggy Noonan uses Social Security and Medicare as if those were great Government programs worthy of support. What an out-of-touch individual she is. Never mind the fact that by the time Social Security came along, FDR had effectively scared the crap out of the Supreme Court so they rubber stamped his program.

[FenwickBabbitt]

Like the Dems reached across the aisle on Obamacare?

[1Old Pro]

Peggy is morphing into a Doris Kearns Goodwin.

[Nifster]

Sure thing Peggy...just like the dems did with Ocare

[GOPJ]

DC elites like Peggy don’t want cuts that make them ‘feel’ less than ‘swell’.

Our kids can do without... the ‘swells’ in DC don’t want their ‘magnanimous’ gifts cut. Here’s my solution Peggy - you and your friends get together and fund kids to see Broadway Plays. Do your ego stuff on your own dime. Not on mine.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Noonan is a dyed in the wool Bushie. EVERYTHING she utters must be viewed through this lens and discounted accordingly.

[Cobra64]

I've become anaesthnetized to this expression except to say that every time we extend a hand, we get kicked in the privates.

So Peggy, go F yourself.

[Parley Baer]

Peggy Noonan does not deal in reality.

[Snickering Hound]

[vette6387]

GFY Peggy!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

The last president to make a fetish of “reaching across the aisle” was George Bush Sr. We saw where that got him.

[forgotten man]

Go away Peggy, and take your friends like Arnold Schwarzenegger with you. You are an irrelevant old has been who never was.

[Parley Baer]

“Like the Dems reached across the aisle on Obamacare?”

Exactly. Did not the dimoKKKRATS lock out the Republicans?