Make No Mistake.
This defeat well have delivered a crippling blow to this presidency. I stopped watching the news in these past 48 hours because of its non-stop attacks on Trump who is being portrayed as an “idiot,” as “lazy” to get the policy details, as a “novice,” and in one editorial as a “buffoon.” In short, these guys in the media are non-stop salivating. You may distrust the media, call it fake news, or the liberal media, but the fact remains that such saturation non-stop negative coverage will drive down poll numbers. When a president’s poll numbers are low, the opposition smells blood in the water and they move for the kill or try derailment of a major piece of legislation.
This Bill should have gotten the support of the major players like the nurses union; doctors, and AARP etc before being offered for a vote. That’s exactly the way Obama was able to ram down Obamacare. Once again, the political class Republicans were caught napping or shall we say with their pants down.
Spoken like a true Trump-doubter. Absolute nonsense.
You're correct about the Media's change from calling Trump "Hitler" and the like. Now he's a "novice", "buffoon", "incompetent", etc. Scott Adams wrote about this predictable pivot by the Media earlier today.
You're still giving entirely too much credence to the Democrats and Media (but I repeat myself), who are actually babbling in an ever-shrinking and increasingly irrelevant echo chamber of their own creation.
The Media will never again wield the influence which you so readily ascribe to them.
The best outcome for this bill was for it to fail. Otherwise, it would have been hung around Trump's neck as "Trumpcare", Americans' premiums would have continued to climb, and Trump would have been blamed for it all.
Worse, the President would have been totally dependent on Paul Ryan for the "Phase 3" fixes, which would never have come, because Paul Ryan is a GOPe pig who doesn't want President Trump to succeed.
Indeed, the person who has been hurt most by this is GOPe Speaker Paul Ryan, who simply cannot be trusted, and who should clearly be replaced due to his horrid leadership, and his attempt to sabotage the President with this abominable legislation, which was conceived in behind closed doors, written by the insurance industry, sought no consensus with the interests that were supposed to vote for it, and then was rolled out with a "take it or leave it" attitude by the Speaker.
The President dodged an Establishment bullet in this instance. Given your historical record during the campaign of tirelessly denigrating Donald Trump, I'm not surprised that you'd give us the "perspective" you just offered.
So, on the contrary: this bill's defeat might very well have saved this presidency. It's passage might have doomed it.
As usual, rumors of Donald Trump's demise have been greatly exaggerated, especially by those who are historically biased against the man...