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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 04:48 PM Mar 2017

How Trump blew it on health care

By Jennifer Rubin March 8 at 9:15 AM

Until Tuesday, President Trump and Stephen K. Bannon did a good job of keeping their base happy. They threw out red meat on immigration, ruthlessly attacked the press, cooked up an anti-Barack Obama conspiracy (to replace the birther conspiracy) and continued to talk tough on trade. If his actions and rhetoric horrified all Democrats, most independents, some thinking Republicans and the press, he did not care. Keep the base happy, stick to the nativist, protectionist Bannon hymnal.

Then on Tuesday Trump embraced the GOP health-care bill, which will keep or even expand the “administrative state” and which has been vilified by conservatives. He tweeted, “Our wonderful new Healthcare Bill is now out for review and negotiation. ObamaCare is a complete and total disaster – is imploding fast!” Trump also said after a meeting with members, “We’re going to do something that’s great. And I am proud to support the replacement plan released by the House of Representatives.”

Now, whatever you think of the merits, it won’t pass as currently designed. Moreover, it is especially harmful to Trump’s lower-income, older Rust Belt supporters.

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How Trump blew it on health care (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2017 OP
Trump voters are the most compromised, and will be the first to die. NBachers Mar 2017 #1
They don't care. They want culture war. raging moderate Mar 2017 #2
Wait until the repugs start dicking with Social Security and Medicare, those.... Tikki Mar 2017 #3
Look at the way Trump purses his lips rock Mar 2017 #4

raging moderate

(4,281 posts)
2. They don't care. They want culture war.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 04:53 PM
Mar 2017

That is all they care about. The world just seems to them to be getting worse and worse, with a sudden increase in gays, abortion, and women in pants, and brown people in funny clothing. And clueless godless Liberals pushing to destroy their sacred way of life.

Tikki

(14,539 posts)
3. Wait until the repugs start dicking with Social Security and Medicare, those....
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 04:56 PM
Mar 2017
rust belters will have Mom and Dad moving into their already financially stressed
homes.

And, believe me, there will be no elder care, care-giver care or help built into any of the repugs plans.

Tikki
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