Posted on 03/24/2017 5:29:43 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
President Trump called me on my cellphone Friday afternoon at 3:31 p.m. At first I thought it was a reader with a complaint since it was a blocked number.
Instead, it was the president calling from the Oval Office. His voice was even, his tone muted. He did not bury the lead.
“Hello, Bob,” Trump began. “So, we just pulled it.”
Trump was speaking, of course, of the Republican plan to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, a plan that had been languishing for days amid unrest throughout the party as the president and his allies courted members and pushed for a vote.
Before I could ask a question, Trump plunged into his explanation of the politics of deciding to call off a vote on a bill he had been touting.
The Democrats, he said, were to blame.
“We couldn’t get one Democratic vote, and we were a little bit shy, very little, but it was still a little bit shy, so we pulled it,” Trump said.
Trump said he would not put the bill on the floor in the coming weeks. He is willing to wait and watch the current law continue and, in his view, encounter problems. And he believes that Democrats will eventually want to work with him on some kind of legislative fix to Obamacare, although he did not say when that would be. ---------------------------------------
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You can also bet he doesn’t get re-elected without conservatives supporting him. You can book that too.
They should have thought of that before they threw their temper tantrum !
“You can also bet he doesn’t get re-elected without conservatives supporting him.”
So I guess he’s only as good as the last thing he did for you,right?...everything he has done so far has been right in your sweetspot.
And by the way...if you are talking about conservatives, he will do just fine with them in 4 years... but he won’t need the Freedom Caucus. They just made sure of that.
Bilgewater.
“You can book that too”
He won Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin with Reagan Democrats NOT the Freedom Caucus.
The Freedom Caucus is the leading edge of the phenomenon that put Trump into office.
I don’t know what your intentions are but if you think you’re going to generate anti-Freedom Caucus sentiment here, you’ve got a screw loose.
“I don’t know what your intentions are”
Cool your jets...I have no intentions at all...couldn’t be bothered.
Freedom Caucus voters brought Trump to the party, and voted for him, in droves. Crossover Dems helped him get over the finish line.
Trump is essentially correct.
“They are busy spiking the football”
If they were smart, they would have hoped for a Trump fix to healthcare but, like you say, more Americans soon will be screaming about the costs and until someone changes the plan...
it will still be called ObamaCare!!
Yep. Many of us were talking about this very thing before the vote
was cancelled.
Trump will now be forced to work with Democrats on fixing Obamacare.
Which, of course, will include funding.
“Freedom Caucus voters brought Trump to the party”
Didn’t the Freedom Caucus support Ted Cruz in the primaries?
Trump is playing congress like a fiddle.
Not sure about the primaries...I was talking about the election party.
I think members were divided in the primary? Again, not sure.
“I was talking about the election party.”
I’m sure they helped a lot in North Carolina.
Nice summary. What does Conservative Treehouse say?
They’re having a cry fest over there.
“What does Conservative Treehouse say?”
This is part of it:
“Moving forward, any tax legislation will now have to keep the $1 to $2 trillion ObamaCare spending in place; ultimately meaning far less room for comprehensive tax reform. Again, the intransigent CONservative caucus just dealt a blow to tax cuts – this is “disappointing” to the Trump economic agenda and will ultimately mean lesser job growth.”
“M”oving forward, any tax legislation will now have to keep the $1 to $2 trillion ObamaCare spending in place; ultimately meaning far less room for comprehensive tax reform. Again, the intransigent CONservative caucus just dealt a blow to tax cuts – this is “disappointing” to the Trump economic agenda and will ultimately mean lesser job growth.””
Bingo.
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