[HiTech RedNeck]

False dichotomy... this isn’t a one-and-done. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but if the person taking that step had to face an overwhelming hue and cry that it wasn’t equal to the journey, the person never would even do that.

The perfect can be the enemy of the good, or even the better.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

That has been my thinking on this too. We were never going to get an immediate, flat out repeal. Even if it could be done, America doesn’t want it. Conservatives may not want to hear it, but parts of Obamacare are popular. If Congress just repealed the pre-existing condition provisions, people would vote them out. If they flat out repealed everything, it would take a while for it to work through the market and people would be left with sky high premiums and no benefits. Its going to take a little time and several bills to unwind this monstrosity.

This also may be the entrée for entitlement reform. Gradually get rid of Medicaid and Medicare and replace it with something that lets people — including senior citizens — buy their own day-to-day medical coverage at unsubsidized market rates but protects them from catastrophic conditions. That would be a very good result from this whole mess.

[Rockitz]

I hope you’re right.

[Yosemitest]

Ann Coulter summarized it best:

Mulvaney's most disturbing comment was to say that what upset Trump the most was the Democrats' "spiking the football" on this deal.

Apparently, Trump's fine with no wall -- and everything else in a bill straight out of George Soros' dream journal --
if only the Democrats hadn't been so rude as to tell the public about it.
When your main complaint is that the other side is gloating too much, maybe you're not that great a negotiator.

... Democrats have got to be pinching themselves, thinking, Am I dreaming this?

... Admittedly, Trump has the enormous handicap of having to work through congressional Republicans, who are feckless cowards.

... This isn't new information. We knew Washington Republicans were useless.
That's why we elected such a comically improbable president as Donald J. Trump.

The deal was
that we were getting the Hollywood version of a New York businessman:
an uncouth, incurious rube -- who would be ruthless in getting whatever he wanted.

In addition to being the only candidate for president in either party taking America's side on trade, immigration, jobs and crime,
what set Trump apart was his promise that we would finally win.

... We're not winning.
We're losing, and we're losing on the central promise of Trump's campaign.

How would Trump, the businessman, react if an underling charged with developing a new golf course could never break ground?

What if the subordinate's progress reports sounded like this:

I have given 21 speeches to various chambers of commerce and neighborhood groups, assuring them that there's going to be a golf course.
Everywhere I go, I say,
"Don't worry about it. It's going to be built!"
I have started a commission to study developing a golf course.
I have put up a sign saying,
"Golf course coming!"
And I have caved, and caved, and caved -- so now our opponents know what good guys we are.

Trump would fire that employee so fast your head would spin.

We want the ruthless businessman we were promised.

[trebb]

Thanks - far too many live in their own fantasy world where they think we can just snap out fingers and go directly from the Nanny State to a pure Constitutional State, letting huge numbers suffer and die when the government support rug is yanked from under them with no transition, and all will be just hunky-dory.

[joesbucks]

The perfect can be the enemy of the good, or even the better.We've been hearing that for the last seven years from many dems.